“After just six days on the market, LG has cancelled its latest smartwatch, the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE,” Ron Amadeo reports for Ars Technica. “An LG representative tells Android Police that due to “a hardware issue” the company has had to halt sales of the device.”
Late in the quality assurance process for the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE, our engineers were made aware of a hardware issue which affects the day-to-day functionality of the device. After further investigation, the decision was made to cancel the rollout of the Urbane 2nd Edition LTE due to the complicated nature of the issue. – LG Electronics Inc.
MacDailyNews Take: Make that “Limited Edition.”
Amadeo reports, “The watch has been on sale for about six days, both online and in Verizon and AT&T stores. Today, the online listings from both carriers are gone: Verizon’s page for the Urbane 2nd Edition LTE shows an error message that aptly notes ‘Oops! That wasn’t supposed to happen…'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Hardware issue” as in “total lack of demand.”
SEE ALSO:
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Apple Watch users are abandoning traditional watches – September 15, 2015
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Apple Watch already dominates smart-wearables market, says IDC – August 28, 2015
IDC estimates Apple sold 3.6 million Apple Watch units in Q2 – August 27, 2015
Best Buy CEO: Apple Watch demand is ‘so strong’ that we’re expanding sales to all 1,050 stores – August 25, 2015
Swiss watch exports decline most since 2009 – August 20, 2015
Apple Watch takes 88% of total smartwatch revenue – August 14, 2015
Apple Watch kills a entire industry in three months – August 12, 2015
U.S. wristwatch sales post biggest drop in seven years after Apple Watch debut – August 7, 2015
Apple Watch dominates smartwatches with 75% market share – July 28, 2015
Juniper Research: Apple is world’s #1 smartwatch maker – July 23, 2015
Canalys: Apple ships 4.2 million Apple Watches in Q2 to become world’s top wearables vendor – July 21, 2015
Apple Watch satisfaction is unprecedented at 97%; beats original iPhone and iPad – July 20, 2015
Non-techies love their Apple Watches even more than tech users – July 20, 2015
Apple Watch is Apple’s most successful product debut ever – June 1, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Ooooooohhhh, ouch! 😱🙀👌👍😂
Without a Monopoly fed business, the smart thing to do is cancel a DOA product. MS? Nah, lets just waste several billions on it till we have a good working copy of the competition.
complicated hardware issue, as in:
oops, when we actually use LTE, the battery lasts one hour.
shades of Kin
wow that would look great on criminals if they want to show solidarity for their paroled colleagues.
I am a very happy Apple watch owner. But LG should get some credit because from a simple aesthetics standpoint the (hardware-operating system defective) LG Urbane 2 was actually quite attractive.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/30/lg-watch-urbane-2nd-edition/
The faux watch faces are gorgeous. But their apps look like crap. Just saying.
The ad photos look better than it does in real life.
“I am a very happy Apple watch owner. But LG should get some credit…”
This is such a paid comment. But nice try.
Sorry, Mac user since 1985. One can truly enjoy Apple products but still give some credit to the competition. If you live in such a black and white world I feel sorry for you.
LG Mundane
Couldn’t happen to a better company.
I’m not even sure how LG is in business with the crap they make.
LG is a primary supplier of Apple displays. When Apple props up its enemies, they have plenty of money to attempt to outmaneuver Apple in other markets. In many areas, LG has succeeded. Apple has no capability to develop new display technology without LG, and no way to make all the mobile chipsets and memory it needs without Samsung. Apple created its own competitiors and IP theives thanks to the “supply chain genius” who now runs the company.
The OLED TVs by LG are hardly crap. Right now, before
Panasonic starts shipping their new OLEDs, they are the
best TVs made. I own one and it’s superb. Don’t know
about the rest of the stuff they make.
LG – Largely Gone, Laughing Goons, Lousy Gear, Lazy Gits, Looting Grifters, Lacking Gadgets, Languishing Gravitation, etc.
Lucky Goldstar — a little farther north or east the name would be “red” star. Anyways, canceling the product was all about time.
West!
Didn’t they used to be Sanyo or Craig?
I can asure you that it was an hardware issue… the issue was that the hardware was not apple… that reminds me that we had a software issue.. the software wasn’t iOS.
The 5 that have been sold so far will become valuable collectibles.
LG supports Putinjugend
And just yesterday some here were complaining by alluding to Apple’s so-called failures when it comes to quality control.
They will of course continue to do so. There is hardly anything more human than the double standard.
Think Tim Cook might have called them and said, “You know, we can buy screens from other companies…….? Takes about 5 minutes.