LG V40 hits Geekbench, unfortunately it’s running Android 8.1 Oreo

collected by :Maya Tony

as declared in Now the LG V40 has been seen on Geekbench and we are not extremely pleased. The LG V40 going to come by the Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform (sdm845) under its hood as shown in the benchmark result below. By the time the LG V40 launches next week, it going to be 2 months ever the launch of Android 9.0 Pie. The LG V30 didn't get updated to Oreo until December, four months after Android Oreo was launched and after the phone, itself was announced. The LG G6 didn't get updated to Oreo until April 2018, eight months after Oreo was announced.

Motorola releases G5 Plus kernel source code for Android 8.1 Oreo

You hear us talk a lot about manufacturers releasing the kernel source codes for their devices. In the case of the latter, Motorola launched the Android 8.1 Oreo sources for the Moto G5 Plus over on its Github. Though succeeded by the G5S Plus – that had it's 8.1 Oreo kernel sources launched a few months ago – the Moto G5 Plus (codename Potter) is continue a good budget phone. And by this code available, it means that developers can get some custom software out for the device. If you are one such individual, you can find the source code below.

Geekbench listing shows the LG V40 ThinQ with Android 8.1 Oreo

As it stated in If you are looking to launch a flagship towards the end of the year, the Android community would expect the laanalisis OS to be running the show. However, it appears that LG didn't get the memo extremely the V40 ThinQ going to run Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box instead of 9.0 Pie. The Geekbench score sheet confirms the rumored Snapdragon 845 chipdetermine and the 6GB of RAM but surprises by an older version of Android. Of course, there's a chance that the benchmarked handdetermine is a pre-production unit extremely things may change until it's launched but given the date (September 26) of the run our bet is on 8.1 Oreo after all. Still, the V40 ThinQ shapes up to be an exciting one to look forward to and the good news is that we are less than a 7 days from the official announcement.