AndroidandMe has reported a rumour that Samsung will announce the next generation of the Galaxy Tab at the upcoming Mobile World Congress from the 27th February in Barcelona.  The new Tab will feature a dual-core 2 GHz Exynos 5250 processor and feature a display larger than 10 inches with a WXQGA (2560×1600) resolution. The device will run the latest Android 4.0.x.

The website revealed that there is more to its report than rumour, stating it actually saw the device at this year’s CES 2012 expo in Las Vegas when its eyes caught sight of a prototype tablet:  ”I saw one of their prototype tablets which was powered by Exynos 5250 and already running Android 4.0. I actually took pictures of the device (not really knowing what it was), but I was politely asked to delete them from my camera after the briefing was over.”

It was last November already that Samsung announced their dual-core 2 GHz Exynos 5250 processor which is their first mobile processor to feature ARM’s latest Cortex-A15 CPU core. The chip is built on Samsung’s new 32nm High-K Metal Gate (HK/MG) low-power process and it also includes ARM’s next GPU, the Mali-T604.

At the Mobile World Congress last year, Samsung showcased the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 10.1. and so this year many are focussing on the Galaxy S III for this year’s show, but Samsung is still weighing its options and it is unlikely to be announced. However, this does leave the possibility open that Samsung plans to show the new Galaxy Tab instead.