14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Motorola has confirmed a while ago that it would come to the market with Android-based tablet PCs, and the first such device was just spotted into the wild, in the hands of none other than Google's Andy Rubin.
The Android-based device was brought on stage at D: Dive Into Mobile, along with the newly launched Nexus S by Samsung, the first mobile phone in the world to arrive on shelves with the new Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.
Rumors on the existence of this device have emerged since several months ago, but even if the company confirmed that it would launch a tablet PC, nothing solid was unveiled on it until now.
On Monday, on stage at D: Dive Into Mobile, Google's Andy Rubin pulled out of its pocket a prototype Android tablet from Motorola, so as to show us what would the future bring to shelves.
Some of the hardware specifications of this device were unveiled as well, including the fact that it would be powered by an NVIDIA processor, with a “dual core 3D processor.”
Moreover, the upcoming mobile device is expected to run under Honeycomb, the next Android flavor, and not Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the OS version unveiled officially yesterday.
These would be the only details that were unveiled on the said Motorola device, though more of these should be unveiled as the launch date for the tablet PC approaches.
According to some of the previous rumors, the device should make an appearance on Verizon Wireless' network, but info on when it would be released lacks at the moment.
From what can be seen in the photos attached to this article, courtesy of Engadget, the device sports a display of around 10-inches in diagonal, in line with what was rumored previously on a Motorola tablet called Stingray.
We might expect for an official announcement on this device to be made sometime in the first half of the next year, so keep an eye on this space for more.
