14 DAY TRIAL // The Consumer Electronics Show has not started, since that will only happen on January 7, but we are already seeing products that will be on display there, and in some cases, only renders of them, like for the LG webOS TV.
It is actually quite surprising that we are hearing about that particular operating system once again, given what happened to it.
Years ago, HP bought Palm, and we all expected the faltering smartphone OS to be turned into a tablet software.
HP tried, but didn't pull it off. Then it tried to turn webOS into a printer software, and not much came of that either.
Eventually, webOS was turned open source and left for anyone to try to resurrect. LG, apparently, has picked up the task.
Not for any mobile devices though, or printers. Instead, it has created a Smart TV, an intelligent television set.
We learned of it late last month, before 2013 was out, but only now has a picture of the product made its way to the Internet. We have @evleaks to thank for that.
The TV has shortcuts for Twitter, Accu Weather, Facebook, YouTube, vTuner and an Internet Browser. Also, it comes with LG's Smartphone app.
An app strip is present on-screen in fact, on the bottom side of the screen. That way, you can easily choose which service to use at any given time.
Of course, some hardware beyond the ken of regular TVs has to be included for all this to work, like a dual-core processor (clock frequency of 2.2 GHz) and a solid amount of memory (1.5 GB of RAM).
All these features are packed inside a very thin profile, not that this comes as a surprise. Not after we saw a myriad of super-thin televisions, OLED and LCD, back at IFA 2013 in September. Clearly, LG is going to maintain the trend now.