It's no big secret that many devices come with carrier bloatware pre-installed, but Verizon wants to change that with its LG G3 smartphone.
More specifically, the carrier will allow LG G3 users to remove the Verizon bloatware that comes with the smartphone. So far, customers were unable to remove the carrier's proprietary apps from the device.
If you have purchased an LG G3 smartphone, you may have noticed that during the activation and setup process, some apps are installed in the background. Those apps will show up in the app drawer. In the past, such apps came pre-loaded out of the box on Verizon phones, but the carrier wants to let go of this practice - at least for the LG G3.
Some of these bloatware apps are actually useful and may come in handy, but others just sit there unused, grabbing storage space for nothing. Verizon will now allow users to uninstall its bloatware apps from their LG G3 just like they would with any other downloaded app.
"Verizon is trialing a new service on the LG G3. Pre-loaded applications will install in the background during the activation and set up process. Once setup is complete, the applications will appear in the applications folder as though they have been traditionally pre-loaded. However, there IS one key difference," Verizon explains in a statement, as published by Droid-Life. "The applications can be completely and entirely uninstalled by the customer via the standard uninstall process. Customers will not incur any data usage or charges for the download and installation of these applications."
In other words, those Verizon bloatware apps will load up normally during the boot process and appear in the app drawer afterwards, but you can easily uninstall the ones you have no use for.
So far, it seems that only the LG G3 benefits from this new Verizon practice, but the carrier will likely extend this courtesy to more devices soon enough. If this proves to be a popular strategy among consumers, and it probably will, other carriers may follow suit as well and eventually allow their customers to uninstall bloatware from their devices.
