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Very sad. I found the perfect smartphone for me - the V20. It almost feels like a smartphone that happened by accident and will never return in its glorious form again. Dont know what else to use if it dies. Already have a spare Screen and its 4th Battery ready to be used.

The second screen is just the perfect solution for having an allways on display without a real (and stupid) notch. I love this feature. Also knock to power on is super convenient. Battery is replacable. The Screen is super sharp. Its thin despite its very accessible inner parts. The amp and music quality is absolutely awesome. The camera is awesome as is the sound recording quality. The IR Blaster ist just super convenient. Also the FM-Radio is a very nice addition. The camera-app is just awesome and i have yet not managed to find something simmilar. Also i like the gallery app. And the sound recording app. Its also fast, has enough power still to this day. And the SD-Card Slot combined with the internal memory gives me 640GB Storage. Also Dual SIM is nice.

Really it is such an awesome phone that im not sure how this phone happened in the first place. As each Smartphone does at least 2 things stupid or hase some dumb features no one asked for.

Its allways the same with me - as soon as i find the absolute perfect hardware - its already legacy and nothing like it is buyable in the future ...

The V20 is like the perfect tool. No stupid features only used for sales, no shortcuts, just a very nice package. Two things i would change: Cameras should never stick out and the volume buttons should be on the back like on the G4.

My first (and apparently last, now) LG phone was a V30. It's currently my main driver and I have no plans to get rid of it.

It has expandable storage, a headphone jack, a full screen with a very thin chin and forehead, a decent camera, loud speakers, a good fingerprint reader, FM radio, a battery that still gets me through a full day easily, and almost everything I want from a phone at what was a very competitive price.

The only thing it's really missing for me is a software update. If there was any hope for that before, there is certainly none now.

The only thing that appears to come close to being a suitable replacement is the ROG Phone 5 but it's expensive, lacks expandable storage, and I've heard bad things about ASUS's software support.

As excited as I am for the PinePhone and Linux smartphones in general, I don't see that being a viable main driver for at least three or four more years - probably longer. Maybe I can keep my V30 going until then...

You should make plans to replace it because it's quite likely updates for it will end soon. Corporations are well known to bail early when a profit center is axed. You don't want to end up hacked.

https://lineageos.org/ ?

I've thought about trying LineageOS. I tried and failed to get it running on my old Galaxy S3, though. It wasn't a big deal because I long-since stopped using that phone. But I'm a bit more cautious about trying to do that with my main driver, especially since LG phones probably aren't supported as well as Samsung phones.

Agreed on how good the V30's design is.

Mine unfortunately got stuck in a bootloop last Thursday, so I'm going to have to go looking for new phones again - I'm considering just getting another V30, however.

It's worth noting, though, that I felt the same about my OnePlus X when it died ("no other phone will ever be good enough!") - perhaps I like the V30 mostly just because I've used it a lot.

How is the software though? I tried it years ago because of the audio quality and ended up going HTC 10 because the LG version of Android was horrendous. Less bloat than Samsung sure but still horrible

I also have a V20 and am quite satisfied. The replaceable battery, SD card slot, headphone jack, and LOS support make for a great overall package. I pray this device lives for many moons.

I'm still using a V20 as well. It's one of the last phones manufactured with a replaceable battery and a headphone jack. It'll be a sad day when it croaks.

I really miss my V20's 2nd screen and removable battery.

I went with the V30 next because I needed the extra horsepower. I'm mostly happy - except for the headphone jack on top.

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