LG Arbitrarily Denying Android Lollipop Update To the G2 In Canada?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 2, 2015 @03:17AM from the arbitrary-lines dept.

Lirodon writes: Its funky rear-mounted buttons may have left critics divided, but the LG G2 is still a pretty capable Android device. While it has gotten an update to Android 5.0 "Lollipop" in some major markets (including the United States, of course), one major holdout is Canada. Reports are surfacing that LG's Canadian subsidiary has decided not to release the update for unknown reasons. But, what about custom ROMs? Well, they handled that too: they have refused to release Lollipop kernel source for the Canadian variant of the device. It is arbitrary actions like this that cause Android's fragmentation problems. A curious note, LG has not specifically made reference to the bugs other users have been having with the update.

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Re:Is there a difference? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-06-02 05:46 · Score: 3, Informative

https://mobile.twitter.com/zr239/status/604339474009571330
https://mobile.twitter.com/zr239/status/605094322497822720
It looks like Roger and Telus have publicly claimed that LG is denying the update - obviously we dont know how the politics work, but LG is not issuing a public denial.