LG mulling webOS-based smartwatch: Report

The world's favorite abortive mobile operating system, webOS is reportedly returning to mobile devices in the form of a new LG SmartWatch.

A developer website hosted by LG teases a software development kit for a webOS SmartWatch, while the familiar Bean Bird from LG's webOS TVs also shows up, this time supporting a classically styled analog wristwatch, CNET reported.

LG is already an active participant in the developing smartwatch market with two Android Wear models: the G Watch that inaugurated Google's wearable software platform and the G Watch R, which is going on sale later this month.

Like fellow Korean manufacturer Samsung - who has adapted the Tizen smartphone OS to its Gear smartwatches - LG may be looking to ensure it has an alternative to the Android platform when constructing its future watches. Given the relative immaturity of Android Wear and competing platforms, there's plenty of opportunity for webOS to indeed be a compelling new option, provided LG's SDK is taken up and used to its full potential, the report said.