“Mini” versions of flagships, with lesser hardware and a more affordable price tag, are nothing new, even though we haven’t yet seen an HTC One M9 mini or Samsung Galaxy S6 mini. We won’t be seeing an LG G4 mini, either, because that’s not how the company rolls. Instead, it affixes a lowercase “s” at the end of the name to signify a phone’s position as the budget option that takes after its flagship. So last year we had the LG G3 s. Now, however, it’s looking like LG is going in a slightly different direction with a device called LG G4c.
We surmise as much from a number of new online listings on German seller’s sites, all of which refer to an LG G4c (H525N). Obviously, an LG G4 s could still be somewhere in the pipeline, but we can’t be sure of it at this point. What seems far safer to assume is that the G4c is a budget-friendly mid-ranger that takes after the G4 flagship.
