The first LG phone to receive Android 10 update in North America might come as a surprise

The first LG phone to receive Android 10 update in North America might come as a surprise

2019-12-17 13:44:54

The first LG phone officially updated to stable Android 10 in North America is not the G8 ThinQ or G7 ThinQ, but rather a lesser-known G7 One you can only buy in Canada.

The first LG phone to receive Android 10 update in North America might come as a surprise

After doing

a pretty horrendous job of

delivering Android Pie updates to a number of devices initially powered by the Oreo OS flavor,

LG made a fairly vague promise a couple of months ago that the next batch of software goodies would spread faster.

Meanwhile, an entirely different LG phone is jumping to the latest OS version in North America before Christmas, although that will only come as a surprise if you're not familiar with the Android One program.

The G7 One basically resembles a Google Pixel handset from a software standpoint, running Android the way the search giant originally envisioned the platform. That essentially means you don't get any of LG's proprietary bells and whistles typically added on top of the stock UI on devices like the

G7 ThinQ and

G8 ThinQ.

Back to the US, you should obviously expect local carriers to send over-the-air

Android 10 goodie packs to the LG G8 ThinQ first and foremost, presumably followed by the

G8X ThinQ and

V50 ThinQ and only after all that by the G7 ThinQ. Then again, believe it or not, Sprint has yet to deliver its official Android Pie update for the "Now Network"-locked G7 ThinQ, which makes the next few months very interesting to follow.