It should hardly come as a surprise that somewhere deep in Sony’s R&D labs, there is a next generation Sony Tablet S being tested. Despite being on the market for 6 months, the Tablet S is a product well over a year old, dating back to early 2011 when Sony began teasing the world about their tablet ambitions. The Tablet S, which originally launched at a $499 price point for the 16GB model, has also seen a price drop, down to $399 with murmurs of additional cuts in the near future. Price cuts alone can point towards a product refresh but a mixture of price cuts and new quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 benchmarks on a mysterious Sony tablet having us thinking of a Sony Tablet S 2.

A new Sony tablet, model V150, was recently caught on the NenaMark Android GPU benchmarking tool with a quad-core 1.4GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. Despite the same 1280 x 752 pixels (WXGA) resolution screen which can be found on the current Sony Tablet S, Android users will be happy about the device running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which will be a significant improvement over the current Tablet S which runs on a modified Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Other good news comes from the benchmark itself which saw what we assume to be the next generation tablet scoring a 59.70 which is a vast improvement over the current 42.89 average. Though I wouldn’t jump to conclusions as to when Sony might be releasing the next generation of the Tablet S, I think it’s safe to assume that Sony is indeed working on something new in the tablet field.

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[Via NetBook News]