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Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet | |
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| Time: 00:02 EST/05:02 GMT | News Source: Gizmodo | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we've all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft's astonishing take on the tablet. Courier is a real device, and we've heard that it's in the "late prototype" stage of development. It's not a tablet, it's a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They're connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre. AW: This may be the productization of a Microsoft Research project called Codex. |
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| #1 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Wednesday, September 23, 2009 06:13:54 AM |
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I would buy it immediately!
Finally in the year 2010 I could be able to replace my Filofax.... |
| #2 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:19:54 AM |
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WOW!
Holy cow MS has been cranking out some good stuff of late. Hit after hit with so much coming that it's hard to keep up with. Whomever said that Ballmer couldn't get it done, hasn't been awake this year. I love it when a company digs in and just pounds the work out. Can't wait for PDC. |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:36:21 AM |
| It does look pretty slick. |
| #4 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Wednesday, September 23, 2009 05:00:02 PM |
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Do not pull out the credit card yet Iketchum: first at all, if we are lucky, we could see the product at the end of 2010; second remember Athena/Agora, nice concept that never materialized.
Again I love the concept byt I am not sure if, commercially speaking, is feasable. Remember MS Bob: great concept, but questionably executed: too cartonish, expensive etc. . Still vector based, Desktop oriented etc....... in 1995. Btw did not even Apple tried and failed with something similar? Apple Navigator or a similar name, if I remember correctly. |
| #5 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at Wednesday, September 23, 2009 06:03:36 PM |
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#4, yeah but you can download some of this now - from MS Research.
I think this will happen - WDM, etc... make it a lot more possible. See, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/inkseine/install.html |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Wednesday, September 23, 2009 07:26:06 PM |
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#5: I love Inkseine and I use it a lot on my Tablet.
I hope that Courier will be able to sync appointments and calendar with Exchange and Outlook. I also hope they will add OneNote to it; so far they just mentioned a "Journal"; in the early days of the Tablet I used Windows Journal a lot but OneNote was a giant step ahead..... finger crossed. This post was edited by Fritzly on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 19:33. |
| #7 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:59:22 AM |
| Think I'll just wait for the apple logo and the incessent claims that apple invented it. |
| #8 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, September 24, 2009 09:30:47 AM |
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#7: Wow, mini-moore makes a return. I just assumed you have been busy these past few months helping to plan parkkker's Windows 7 House Party.
Party in da house! |
| #9 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:53:41 AM |
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I see you finally passed me on comment quantity.
I'll sit quiet a few more years, and let you catch me on quality too. |
| #10 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:26:08 PM |
| #9: When you mention the quality of your posts, I assume you weren't referring to your grammar. |
| #11 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Sunday, September 27, 2009 03:27:08 AM |
| I would have hoped you would have given up on making 'assumptions'... given your track record of unfulfilled prognostications and generally being wrong at every turn. |
