The Motorola Gingerbread Android Tablet Demoed With Google's Andy Rubin at D: Dive Into Mobile conference

Google has  busy couple of days.Not just do it announce and release its latest eBook service yesterday, the search giant finally pressed out the SDK for Android 2.3 and unveiled  Samsung Nexus S, its next technically supported Android smartphone.

It seems Google did not need to stop there either. Whilst demonstrating the Nexus S handset to delegates at the D: Dive into Mobile conference, Google's Andy Rubin also pulled out a new Motorola Android-powered tablet, all but confirming rumours Google had been working with Motorola to release the first Gingerbread powered tablet.

In August, it was recommended that smartphone manufacturers were in negotiations with Google to protected rights to develop an Gingerbread tablet, after that Motorola were apparently Google's "priority choice". Digitimes speculated that Motorola's tablet would feature Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform with a 10.1 panel complete by Sharp and it appears they were not far off.

Rubin noted to the tablet was certainly sporting an NVIDIA dual-core 3D processor and from images, the device seems to be larger than the 7"inch devices presently on the market, leading us to consider the Motorola tablet is of a similar size to the Apple iPad.

All signs point to this device being the Motorola Stingray but not anything is confirmed now yet. If it does to be sure turn out to be said device, the tablet is said to be Verizon bound and strength support paid TV services, aiming at Hulu and Netflix in the process.

The Android 2.3 Gingerbread to be introduced on December 6th

At this point, we're allowing for any date to be the official announcement of Android 2.3, or Gingerbread. We've been waiting, and waiting for some morsel of information, and once we saw this, it regarded like the pieces might indeed be appropriate together.

Mr. Android, aka Andy Rubin, might be making an appearance at an imminent show in San Francisco on the 6th of December. The show is "D: Dive Into Mobile" (yeah, we like the name, too) and that's totally possible that Rubin will be dipping some sweet, sweet facts on us concerning Gingerbread. This date is fairly believable, as it falls right in line with Eric Schmidt's words saying that the Android update should be introduced with in the next couple of weeks the D: Dive Into Mobile show will be exactly three weeks since Schmidt hinted at the release.

As I've said before, Google improved deliver with Gingerbread. The OS update has been extremely over-hyped, and once it drops, people will start to pick it a part. That will be the case with every update for any mobile OS, but iOS, WebOS, and WP7 are already extremely nice-looking on their own, and Gingerbread is said to be focused on user experience. If all Duarte has done is make the notification bar black and make the choice highlights green with Gingerbread, people may soon be turned off to the OS. We're putting our money on Gingerbread bringing a much snazzier UI to Android.

That thought, the real agreement is Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" OS. Android 2.3 Gingerbread will not step the OS up to 3.0 status, so we'll probable have to wait until the next major platform update before we see any real optimizations for tablet campaign.

Who knows at this point when we'll see Gingerbread. We know the Nexus One will get it first, and some others likely will have to remain months before they can get the latest version Android on their handset.

So, what is your bet for an Android Gingerbread release date?