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Like lousy year as LG’s, failing to revive its old mobile business with highly experimental devices like the Wing and a conventional flagship instantly forgettable, there’s no denying that the company got at least one thing right in 2020.
Obviously released with Android 10 ready for use, both nationally and internationally, the LG Velvet started receiving a massive collection of Android 11 goodies over the air, tipping the scales by more than 2 GB sometime earlier this week.
Although we don’t have a changelog to share with you yet, the size of the download seems to suggest that this particular update weighs heavily on proprietary UI optimizations and tweaks, unlike, say, the recently delivered OTA promotions for several top-tier manufacturers a mid-ranger, each weighing less than 1 GB.
This may explain why LG took so long to bring, without a doubt, its most interesting phone of 2020, although it is also worth noting that all deliveries of Samsung One UI 3.0 and 3.1 in the past few weeks have far exceeded 2 GB.
Unfortunately, there is also no reason to expect LG to spread the love of Android 11 for the beautiful and reasonably powerful Velvet 5G to the US and other Western markets soon, and the same goes for company updates for devices like the V60 ThinQ 5G, Wing 5G, K92 5G or Stylo 6. Of course, all of these phones will eventually be upgraded to the latest version of the operating system worldwide, but it is essentially impossible to know when that might happen.