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LG Plans to Launch WebOS-powered Smartwatch by Early Next Year

South Korean Consumer Electronics Firm to Build on Software It Bought from Hewlett-Packard

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LG Electronic's G Watch R smartwatch displayed at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The South Korean company plans to launch a new smartwatch powered by its WebOS platform. ILLUSTRATION: Reuters

LAS VEGAS—South Korea‘s LG Electronics Inc. will use the WebOS platform as an alternative to Google Inc.’s Android operating system in a new smartwatch lineup to be launched early next year, a person familiar with the plans said.

“We’re going to slowly try to build an (software) ecosystem around areas we can have more control over,” the person said on the sidelines of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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