Motorola Xoom 2 Tablet Possibly Exposed Prematurely By Verizon Video

It looks like these are times when, regardless of how cautious one is, some slips just happen, in this instance in the form of a Verizon video which, though no longer available to the public eye, was around long enough for attentive web entities to start speculating.

The tablet market is definitely cementing its status as full part of the IT industry, even though this does come at the expense of laptop sales.

Also, with not just the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (now selling) but also rugged Android models (Panasonic Toughbook) coming, things are bound to just get more intense.

Since some companies can't bring out their arsenal as soon as others, promo videos end up being used extensively (HP proved this quite well).

Still, there are some things that IT players wouldn't want to reveal prematurely, things that, sometimes, get exposed anyway.

Motorola seems to have gone through this sort of episode when Verizon posted a video of a tablet that hadn't been spotted anywhere before then.

Said video has since been made private, but the folks over at Droid-Life were able to snatch a frame from it.

It isn't one that shows the product's front, but the report states that the product is definitely running the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system.

It is not the Xoom the market is familiar with, but since it isn't the aforementioned Galaxy Tab 10.1 either, this can only be something totally new.

At the moment, there is absolutely no word on the hardware, except for the speaker identical to that of the Motorola Xoom.

Either way, the video is no longer available for scrutiny, so only time and future updates, or just other leaks, will actually shed light on the identity of this mysterious new arrival on the growing and increasingly populated tablet field.