That is, unless you’re an LG employee based in South Korea. According to Twitter user FrontTron, a self-proclaimed tipster based in the country, LG is offering its employees the chance to own either of the unreleased smartphone models at attractive prices. Alleged internal communications, provided as screenshots by the leakster, revealed that the company has a limited stock for both the rollable and Rainbow phones, with the latter is said to be available at only 3,000 units.
LG Rollable also on sale to LG Korea MC devision employees, details unknown. Due to high surge of popularity to the LG Rainbow, LG is considering to halt the sale of 3000 units of Rainbow that was set to be started today. Maybe more production, more sales? 😎 pic.twitter.com/fkC0y6cp58 — Tron ❂ #MicrosoftEvent (@FrontTron) May 17, 2021 Based on prior leaks from different sources, the Rainbow was intended to be released as the LG Velvet 2 Pro and would feature the same clean and minimalist design language of its predecessor. In terms of hardware, the phone comes with a curved 6.8-inch FHD+ OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate, a Snapdragon 888 processor, and a 4,500mAh battery. On its back is a triple camera setup, but details regarding each sensor are not known.
SD8886.8" FHD+ OLED 120Hz8/1284500mAh Limited 3000 unit sales delayed due to high popularity and discussing extending warranty from 6 months to 24 monthsOnly LG Electronics Korea employees can buy max 2 units per personResale prohibited $176 pic.twitter.com/478IMUbgj7 — Tron ❂ #MicrosoftEvent (@FrontTron) May 17, 2021 While the price of the rollable phone was not revealed, FrontTron claims that LG is selling the Rainbow smartphone at only US$170 per unit. After conversion, that’s basically around RM580 for a flagship LG device, which is a very good deal. Also not forgetting that you’re only paying that much for a rare, unreleased smartphone that also happens to be the last of its kind from the South Korean tech company. It appears that LG employees also realised that fact and may have caused a huge influx of interest internally, the leakster added. So much so that the company had to delay the sale of these devices due to “high popularity”.
Lots of LG employees are interested to buy the last LG phone. https://t.co/VguMhlR9BD pic.twitter.com/PV03FuLllh — Tron ❂ #MicrosoftEvent (@FrontTron) May 16, 2021 But even if they did turn up for sale online, you can expect both smartphones to be sold at heavily scalped prices instead of what LG had offered to its staff. (Source: FrontTron [1] [2] [3] via XDA)
