LG Wing Review

Push the top of the Wing sideways and the 6.8-inch screen rotates ninety degrees on a hydraulic-damped pivot to sit crosswise over a 3.9-inch second screen, in a T shape no phone had tried before or has tried since. LG tested the swivel to 200,000 turns and it feels it: the mechanism is the best-built part of a 260 g phone. Used as intended, a YouTube video plays on the wide screen while its controls and comments sit on the small one, and the Gimbal Motion Camera turns the lower screen into a joystick for a 12 MP ultrawide that steadies video like a handheld rig.

That is roughly where the software ideas ran out. Only a short list of apps did anything special with the second screen, and most of the time it was a place to keep a keyboard or a second app. The main 6.8-inch P-OLED at 2460x1080 ran at 60 Hz in the year 120 Hz went mainstream, the Snapdragon 765G with 8 GB of RAM was a mid-range chip, the 64 MP main camera was ordinary for the money, and the 4000 mAh battery managed a day with 25W charging.

Verizon sold it from October 2020 at 999 dollars and had cut it to 699 within months. In April 2021 LG announced it was leaving the phone business altogether, after years of losses, bootloop lawsuits and phones like this one. Android 11 arrived in 2021 and Android 12 in 2022, both from a company that no longer made phones.