Executives from the company discussed an array of topics about mobile devices at a press event at CES in Las Vegas on Thursday, often saying that it plans to make more announcements next month.

The company plans to unveil a rich, next generation tablet portfolio at the conference in Barcelona in February, JK Shin, president of Samsung Mobile said. It will also discuss more about plans for tablets running Honeycomb, the new version of Android that is designed for tablets. Motorola beat Samsung in that regard, announcing the Xoom tablet this week, which is one of the first to run the new software from Google.

The Samsung executives sought to deflect credit for the growth in tablets away from Apple, which is often regarded as a tablet leader because of its popular iPad. “Tablets are not new,” Omar Khan, chief strategy officer for Samsung Telecom America said. “The form factor has been around for several years. Key I think to the explosion is the readiness of the platforms and ecosystems.” The advance of touch technologies and improved user experiences helped too, he said.

Samsung contends that its tablets were designed internally and were not influenced by other companies.

Samsung was reluctant to reveal projections for tablet sales in 2011 in part because market forecasts from analysts vary so widely.