Tech Train

What are the Pros and Cons of buying an old flagship phone? Is it a better deal than getting a current mid-range or budget device? This article will investigate how the LG Wing holds up against today’s tech.

The most important thing a phone can do is run a variety of useful apps. The LG Wing runs Android 10, which came out in 2019. Despite the age of its operating system, the phone can run any app that its modern day counterparts do. It has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G inside, which is an upper mid-range chip with a 5G modem built in. There are 8 gigabytes of ram onboard. That’s the same as this year’s Pixel 6. To be fair, the Google Tensor processor in the Pixel 6 blows the 765G out of the water in benchmarks.

Real world performance doesn’t always match benchmarks. Most people don’t run the latest games on their phones. For them, a less powerful chip that makes a phone fly through daily tasks like email, texting, and video chat is more than enough.