
Formally unveiled in early October and commercially released both on US carriers and in an unlocked variant later that same month, the LG V40 ThinQ could have theoretically been powered by Android Pie out the box. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case, even though the newest version of Google's market-leading OS had seen daylight a couple of months prior to the V40's debut.
Making matters significantly worse, the Korea-based smartphone manufacturer took an excruciatingly long time to kick off the over-the-air Android 9.0 delivery, even before carriers got involved in the "optimization" ...