14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics reportedly scrapped plans to come to the market with a tablet PC running under Google's Android 2.2 Froyo operating system, in an attempt to have the best suited OS flavor loaded on its device.
It appears that the Android 2.2 platform is not the most suitable OS version for a tablet PC, and LG is among those companies who will wait for another platform version to land, one with optimizations on this area.
According to a recent article on Reuters, the info comes from an LG official, who confirmed that the handset vendor and Google are working on this slate.
“We plan to introduce a tablet that runs on the most reliable Android version ... We are in talks with Google to decide on the most suitable version for our tablet and that is not Froyo 2.2,” the said LG official commented.
The move does not come as a surprise, that's for sure, especially since Google itself said a few weeks ago that Android 2.2 Froyo is not a platform version optimized for use on Tablet PCs.
Of course, such devices have been already released on the market, and they play very well with the mobile OS, including the 7'' Galaxy Tab, but the platform is not best fitted for the large touchscreen displays these devices sport.
Recent reports on the area suggested that companies like HTC, Motorola, or Acer also plan launching Android-based tablets in the near future, and that all of them would wait for the next OS iteration to make the move.
The said platform flavor, supposedly dubbed Android 3.0 Gingerbread, should be optimize for use on tablet PCs, not to mention that applications fitted for the large screens of slate would also made an appearance in the Android Market.
Previously, LG announced plans to launch an Android-based tablet PC that would be included in its Optimus series, something that might have not changed, though it remains to be seen when would the slate land on shelves.