Korean electronics company LG is giving up on making smartphones after the once-mighty manufacturer was unable to keep up with increasing intense competition from Chinese rivals.
LG, which was once the world's third-biggest mobile phone manufacturer, said it would stop making phones by the end of July, adding to a graveyard of phone makers such as Nokia, BlackBerry and Motorola.
LG's smartphone unit has not made a profit for almost six years and has racked up losses of around $4.5 billion ($6.0b) in that time.
An early mover in smartphones, it launched a device with a touchscreen before the iPhone but was late to fully embrace Google's Android operating system, allowing Samsung to gain an early advantage from which its Korean counterpart has never recovered.
Its market share in mobile phones peaked in 2009, before smartphones became ubiquitous, and it was the world's third-biggest manufacturer as recently as 2013.