LG must have long term plans for its V-Series.
Earlier this month, the Korean electronics maker has filed a trademark for the
name “LG V90” in Mexico. The filing was submitted to the Instituto Mexicano de
la Propiedad Industrial earlier this month, on July 13.
With this, we could speculate a couple of things:
LG’s plans for its LG V-series are long term, and given that the V40 is
expected this year, it would be quite a few years before we’d actually see LG
release a product with the name V90. Otherwise, perhaps there’s another company
in Mexico that could eventually have to trademark the same name, which could
explain why it was done specifically in Mexico.
Another possibility is that
LG would release some LG non-smartphone device with the same moniker. Of
course, the trademark was filed for a Class 9 product, which covers a broad
spectrum of mobile communication devices that include but are not limited to
smartphones. TVs, headsets, AV recorders, and cell phone batteries are all
categorized under this class. Well, this piece of news isn’t entirely useless. It somewhat confirms
that LG does plan to launch a successor to the LG V30. It may not be called the
V90, but chances are high that it’d be called the V40.
Back in January, LG announced that it would no
longer stick to a yearly schedule to launch a new smartphone. So while we’d
usually see the V-series launch at IFA in Berlin like we did with the V30,
chances are slim that we’d see LG come out with a new V model this upcoming
IFA. This is considering that LG didn’t launch the G7 ThinQ during MWC, as it
always did.
Current LG V40 rumors point to a phone with five
cameras, three in the back and two in the front and is codenamed: Storm.
