Earlier today at the Mobile World Congress event, Samsung showed off their upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1, a sequel to the popular Galaxy Tab tablet. In what seemed a direct way to compete with the Apple iPad, Samsung abandoned the 7-inch territory and made the new Tab a 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet.

Featuring Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the Tab 10.1 will have a 10.1″ WXGA TFT LCD display with 1280 x 800 resolutions and run on a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 SoC. The front camera is a 2-Megapixel camera, and the back is an 8-Megapixel camera with LED flash, which is quite similar setup with their Galaxy S II smartphone.

Samsung says the device will weigh just 1.24 pounds, and the 8-MegaPixel camera will have 1080p recording support. Available in either 16GB or 32GB, the device will not have any USB or HDMI ports, and use a proprietary charging cable.

The new Galaxy Tab is dubbed a “Google Experience” device, same as their Nexus S smartphone few months back. That’s right, stock Gingerbread here with no TouchWiz or custom Samsung tablet apps here.

The device will launch next month in Europe and Asia but there is no word on a U.S. launch or the price.