LG Has No Plans To Produce Its Own Mobile OS [Unlike Samsung, LG Would Rather Develop Hardware For WinMo 7, Android phones]

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LG Electronics of South Korea has absolutely no intentions of releasing its own mobile OS. This is the polar opposite of its long-time rival, Samsung, who showed off their new Bada OS at MWC this past week. LG says it would rather develop hardware than spread their focus.

Both Samsung and LG can agree on one thing – that they’ll both be shifting their focus from dumbphones featurephones to the hot smartphone market. Samsung showed off the Wave and Halo earlier this week at MWC, and the Wave will ship running Samsung’s own Bada OS.

Skott Ahn, the head of LG’s mobile phone business, said a round-table meeting at MWC this past week, “Our strategy is not to make an independent mobile platform of our own at least for the next two to three years,” which, keen-readers will note, doesn’t rule out an LG mobile OS in the future. Ahn says that LG will produce phones that will ship with Windows Phone 7 or Android.

Ahn says that the heavy competition in the smartphone mobile OS market will drive many operating systems out of the market, and in just one or two years, there will be less mobile OSes than there are today.

At MWC this past week, LG showed off the LG Arena, a smartphone which is running a nondescript operating system.