Report: LG Ditches Plans for Android 2.2-Based Tablet

LG has reportedly ditched plans to introduce a tablet based on Google's Android 2.2 Froyo operating system.

LG still plans to release a tablet, but not one that will include the Android 2.2 OS, according to a report from Reuters.

"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," an unnamed LG official told Reuters.

In July, a Google official said that Android 2.2 was not optimized for tablets. "If you want Android market on that platform, the apps just wouldn't run, [Froyo] is just not designed for that form factor," Hugo Barra, director of products for mobile at Google, said in an interview with TechRadar.

In the same month, LG said in a press release that it was prepping an Android-based tablet. Tucked away at the end of an announcement about the upcoming Optimus Z smartphone for the Korean market was a line that said "more Optimus devices are in the pipeline, including the launch of LG's Android tablet in the fourth quarter of 2010."

LG showed off a Windows 7-based tablet at this year's Computex show.

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