Microsoft’s Secret Courier Tablet Info Leaked |
According to a recent report from Gizmodo on Tuesday, Microsoft is confirming rumors that it actually does have a new dual-screen tablet in the works, codenamed Courier. According to the article and a short demo video, the Courier is a real thing and is more like a “booklet” than a tablet as it folds together and has two interactive touch screens side-by-side with loads of fast functionality.
The project has apparently been kept under pretty tight wraps with very few, both inside and outside of Microsoft, with knowledge about it. In fact, rumors are that the team working on the project, led by J. Allard (a designer involved in the Zune and the Xbox) has been kept away from the main Redmond campus to help keep it secret.
It’s unclear if the Courier is the actual tablet-type product that Microsoft will bring to market as it sounds like they are working on a number of prototypes to find the right one that may give Apple’s rumored tablet a run for its money.
Photos via Gizmodo
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This looks like another fantastically great product from Microsoft! I can’t wait to be rid of my magazine subscriptions and to be able to carry my very heavy technology books with me everywhere! I am 66 and just have trouble carrying 50 to 60 lbs of books and magazines to and from work each day. Thumbs up for Microsoft again!
If Microsoft does unveil a touch book it will be half-b4ked at best and they’ll abandon it suddenly or we’ll endure a horrend1ously in4ne marketing campaign. Either that or they’ll make it an industry-wide consortium where we’ll be inundated with several incompatible models whose market they will proceed to destroy by bundling it with over-priced and buggy software with a focus on how to pander to the business customers irrespective of any end-user who may need to suffer themselves by use of the device.
I must caution, that I am a BIG Microsoft supporter and so my views may be biased.
It’s an interesting concept, but I think that black bar between the panes kills it. How are you supposed to watch a full screen movie? I can see it being useful in terms of one half being a screen and the other a virtual keyboard, but if they could make it unfold into a larger uninterupted screen I’d be impressed. Otherwise it would be a lot of wasted space if you were using it only as a touch screen.