14 DAY TRIAL // During the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January, wireless carrier T-Mobile USA and South Korean handset vendor LG Electronics brought to the spotlight the G-Slate, an Android-based tablet PC that should arrive at the carrier in the near future.
However, it seems that LG does not plan on making the device available for purchase in the United States alone, and that it would also aim an bringing it to shelves in the UK, and elsewhere, for that matter.
The mobile phone maker might announce the device as headed for the UK market too pretty soon, most probably at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, though no official confirmation on this emerged for the time being, Pocket-lint notes in a recent article.
According to the news site, they asked James Choi, marketing strategy and planning team director of LG Electronics global on this, but received an evasive answer.
“That information isn’t available yet. The first announcement was for the Americas. We are planning another announcement pretty soon,” Choi stated.
Although he did not confirm the move, Choi did hinted that the G-Slate might be set to arrive on shelves in more markets around the world.
“For the iPad you have the Wi-Fi version, the 3G version, different kinds of versions”, explains Choi, who continues: “I’ll put it to you this way, even if the 4G version isn’t in the UK...”
However, the sentence was not completed, as the PR next to Choi stepped it at that moment, the news site reports. “It’s one of the key products that we are working on, so we’re trying to keep a tight lid on it,” the PR stated.
Undoubtedly, this adds more fuel to the rumor fire than confirms the upcoming availability of the device in more markets around the world, though it was somehow expected for LG to plan pushing the device to more countries.
The G-Slate runs under Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system, and should land on shelves as one of the first large tablet PCs based on this OS version.