Hasta La Gadget!

Motorola is indeed looking to go head to head with the iPad, just don’t expect a new consumer tablet from the company any time this year. Motorola co-chief executive Sanjay Jha told a crowd at the company’s investor conference, “we want to make sure that any tablet that we deliver is competitive in the marketplace, and I think all of us will make sure that we will only deliver that when that occurs.”

Such a tablet may arrive as early as next year, but there are still a number of roadblocks, not the least of which is the latest build of Google’s Android. The search giant is convinced that Froyo, Android 2.2, is not quite ready for the full-on tablet treatment. Jha said that his company will wait until the software is more tablet-friendly before going ahead with the product.

Motorola has been heavily invested in Google’s open operating system as of late, having released a number of Android-based smartphones, including the Charm, Cliq, Backflip, Devour, Droid, Droid 2, and Droid X.

Samsung last night revealed its own Android-based tablet, the Galaxy Tab, which runs Froyo.