If one is being honest about things, Motorola Mobility’s Xoom tablet has to be called a flop. It didn’t have to be this way, of course. When Xoom debuted last January it made a big splash, even taking “Best of CES” at CES 2011. Unfortunately, Motorola Mobility failed to grasp the realities of the market and when it released Xoom in stores in February with an absurd $799.00 price tag for the Xoom 3G (over Rm2,000 by Maxis), it was utterly trounced by iPad 2.

By the end of Q2, iPad 2 had sold more than 9 million copies to Xoom’s 450,000, likely the leading cause of Xoom’s $200.00 price drop in July 2011. This brought it more in line with iPad, but given Apple’s market dominance, it didn’t do much to reverse flagging sales.

It looks like Motorola Mobility isn’t giving up, and production on the “fun” and “portable” smaller-screen tablet that CEO Sanjay Jha spoke on last February does indeed appear to be continuing apace. This Is My Next got their hands on photo and video proof of a new Motorola tablet and took a very detailed look at the as-yet unknown quantity.

The device appears to have what looks like an 8-inch (the original Motorola Xoom is a 10-inch tablet by the way), 16:9 ratio screen and both micro-USB and micro-HDMI ports. Literally nothing else can be factually stated, but one can speculate that it will run Honeycomb and, with Google’s announcement last month that they plan to buy Motorola Mobility for 12 billion, this might become Google’s attempt at an iPad killer.

Naturally, the overwhelming success of Google Buzz and Google Plus makes this a solid plan.