Following the recent unveiling of Gingerbread, Google makes public the latest tablet-friendly version of Android. Google’s Andy Rubin reveals a Motorola-built tablet running on an upcoming version of Android – Honeycomb. The prototype tablet with Honeycomb is expected to hit the market early next year.

The black colored prototype is about 10 inch in size and is powered by dual-core Nvidia Graphics Processor. Running on Honeycomb which is specially intended for tablet-sized screens, the tablet’s processing power would definitely be quite a thrill to explore. The tablet can be hold in any orientation for it does not contain any button unlike the iPads. However, applications are displayed more or less the same way they appear in iPads. Imminent version of Google Maps was demonstrated on the device and stated that it can load “a whole state” of multiple maps data in its memory for offline usage.

About Honeycomb, it has tricks under the hood to make things better in view of tablet experience. The version will include typical APIs that would allow applications to bear device-friendly looks based on the device they are run on. The extra space in multicolumn views of applications while experienced on tablets can be employed suitably using the specially included APIs. These tools will be shipped with the Honeycomb which the developers can make use of while developing content rich applications that demand more information to be put up on a single page.

No price for the tablet has been announced as such, though Rubin stated that the expenses in building the prototype were nearly $10,000. Since Google is going for a mass production, so the actual cost may be quite less than that. Well, let us wait and hope for that.