Motorola Tablet to debut with Android 2.4 Honeycomb at CES 2011.Video

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Motorola posted a YouTube video today called "Tablet Evolution," which starts with an ancient Egyptian stone tablet and ends with the yet-to-be-named Motorola tablet. Nothing is revealed about the tablet---not even how it looks---but the bee flying toward it indicates that it will run Android 2.4 aka "Honeycomb."

Android 2.4 will be the first version of Android designed especially for tablets. Other Android tablets, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, run Android 2.2 or below, which was designed for phones first. Check out Motorola's tablet teaser video below.

Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering, showed off a Motorola-branded prototype at D: Dive Into Mobile a few weeks ago, which he confirmed sported an NVIDIA "dual core 3D processor" and video chat. It also appears to have no physical buttons as Android 2.4 will allow manufacturers to use software-based home and back buttons. Other rumored specs include a 5-megapixel back-facing camera, 7-inch and 10-inch versions and a gyroscope. It is also rumored to come in three network flavors: UMTS, CDMA and LTE.

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Motorola unveils tablet prototype with Dual-Core processor.

WorldWideTech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

The Motorola prototype running Google's Honeycomb, the next version of Android, was shown at the D. Dive Into Mobile  in San Francisco Monday.

"We're taking advantage of the 3D processing power. The particular processor is Nvidia. Their dual-core 3D processor. These guys really know 3D," said Google's Andy Rubin when showing off a new 3D version of Google Maps, which is due for cell phones "in a matter of days." His discussion of the tablet was streamed from the conference. (Watch video below)

With a Nvidia's Tegra 2,processor. That chip is one of the first to pack a dual-core Cortex-A9 ARM processor with a graphics chip that delivers mobile "3D game playability and a visually engaging, highly-responsive 3D user interface," according to Nvidia.

The tablet's 3D capability that Rubin praised shows that Nvidia's expertise in 3D may give it a leg up on competitors. And it certainly puts Intel on notice, which has not emphasized 3D to date in its mainstream Atom processors targeted at small devices like tablets.

And a wave of tablets is about to break packing dual-core chips from Texas Instruments (OMAP 4) and Qualcomm (MSM8660), according to Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw, all packing enhanced 3D processing. "[Nvidia] is fairly competitive but the offset is Qualcomm, which has most of the wins in new tablets," Kumar said, adding that TI will also be in a few high-profile designs.