LG will focus resources and development on smartphones rather than compete against the iPad, telling Bloomerg it is putting tablets "on the back burner of the time being."
The company revealed its first tablet, the 8.9-inch Optimus Pad, at Mobile World Congress 2011. An LTE version of the Optimus Pad was released on January 2012.
However only Apple and Samsung manage to make money out of tablets-- according to ABI Research, even the Kindle Fire "fizzles" in 2012 as shipments from all other vendors continue falling.
And now even Microsoft wants a slice of the tablet pie.
Thus LG will focus on making Android smartphones, although the company also says it is "still open" for phones using Microsoft software.
