LG will reportedly update its LG Wing and LG Velvet devices to Android 13 for 2023.
Since South Korean consumer electronics company LG announced its official departure from the smartphone business in April 2021. The tech company has pulled through with its promise of keeping its old smartphones up to date on Android, according to a past report from Tech Times.
Several eligible smartphones, including the LG G8X ThinQ, LG V50 ThinQ, LG V60, LG Wing, and LG Velvet, have received the release of Android 12 from the manufacturer this year.
Now, XDA-Developers reports that Android 13 is also compatible with the LG Wing and LG Velvet, and the firm has revealed its software upgrade schedule for the upcoming calendar year.
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LG's Android 13 Roadmap
9to5Google reports that the upcoming Android updates scheduled for Q1 2023 have been confirmed by a roadmap just released to LG's website. Along with security updates for the LG Wing, LG Q61, LG Q92 5G, and LG Q52 5G, Android 13 has also been made available for the Velvet.
Before closing its mobile division, the company released its final flagship model, the LG Velvet. Only one other gadget, the LG Wing, which debuted a few months later, will also receive an Android 13 update. The upcoming Android update is likely the final major release of the platform in both of these situations.
The length of LG's security upgrades is still unknown. However, the firm did declare a "three-year pledge" in 2021, promising three significant OS updates for flagships introduced in 2019 and beyond. If everything goes as planned, that implies that the LG V60 ThinQ will also receive an upgrade. However, there was no mention of security fixes in that pledge.
What To Expect From Android 13
In anticipation of the upcoming update for LG smartphone owners, here is the full list of changes according to Android:
Camera
- HDR video capture
Core functionality
- Legacy copy of speech service implementation removed.
- OpenJDK 11 updates
Developer productivity and tools
- Themed app icons
- Per-app language preferences
- Faster hyphenation
- Text Conversion APIs
- Improved line heights for non-latin scripts
- Improved Japanese text wrapping
- Unicode library updates
- Color vector fonts
- Quick Settings placement API
- Clipboard preview
- Predictive back gesture
- Bluetooth LE Audio
- MIDI 2.0
- ART optimizations
Google Play services
- Permission required for advertising ID
Graphics
- Programmable shaders
- Choreographer improvements
Media
- Anticipatory audio routing
- Spatial audio
- Updates to non-SDK interface restrictions
Performance and battery
- Foreground Services (FGS) Task Manager
- Improve prefetch job handling using JobScheduler
- Battery Resource Utilization
Privacy and security
- Runtime permission for notifications
- Hide sensitive content from the clipboard
- Migrate away from shared user ID
- New runtime permission for nearby Wi-Fi devices
- Use of body sensors in the background requires new permission
- Intent filters block non-matching intents
- Granular media permissions
- Safer exporting of context-registered receivers
- Photo picker
- New runtime permission for nearby Wi-Fi devices
- New permission to use exact alarms
- Developer downgradable permissions
- APK Signature Scheme v3.1
- Better error reporting in Keystore and KeyMint
- Improved support for tablets and large-screen devices
User experience
- Media controls derived from PlaybackState
- App color theme applied automatically to WebView content
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