Microsoft Tablet pc revealed!

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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.
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http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet
 
Dear god that looks awesome. If it works anything like the flash video makes it seem, then im a definite buyer. I wonder how pricey its going to be. This kind of thing seems like it would lend itself to be pretty cheap so they can gobble up the market, but the features and development looks like it would have been very expensive costs. Hopefully its under a grand.
 
That video does look pretty awesome, but also still quite 'concepty'. I also can't help but think that the battery will die in no more than 5 hours with a screen this big. Goddamn, I would be so happy if we invented amazing battery technology that would last days or weeks.
 
not if both screens are OLED... ZuneHD has an oled screen and it's supposed to have really good battery life.
 
It will probably get Yellow Page Of Death or something.
 
Ops, had motionbox.com blocked.

OK, so, that's awesome. I'm so tired of clicking on shit with my mouse I'd like to have something else. I'll have to get one of these once they become really affordable.

Although it's really slick and interesting, you know there is this thing called a pad and paper that works really well too. Well designed yet very inexpensive.
 
VirusType2 said:
Although it's really slick and interesting, you know there is this thing called a pad and paper that works really well too. Well designed yet very inexpensive.
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Which ends up being very expensive when you consider the fact that you need to buy pens, paper, and a whole god damned computer to do the same things this does.
 
This is definitely still in prototyping phases. The UI shown is one of many they are considering (IIRC, I think they have 5 UI's in basic stages. They are testing for how good the UI looks, and especially usability. Don't expect it to look like the video in the end.)

All via a friend of a friend in the know :) He wouldn't give me any more info than that really as this is super hush-hush even within MS. This was a surprise to many MS employees.
 
I like that the screens fold together, and I can't wait to see a real video of the software and touchscreen in action.
 
You don't even have to plug it in to charge it. That technology is win. I've got it in my electric toothbrush, but I still haven't got around to learning how it works yet.

(I mean the battery charging technology of course, not the toothbrush)
 
this would be awesome for those who like to take lunch breaks at work, you could get so much done while at work. I'd buy one when they hit the $300 mark
 
I'm not trying to start a fight or anything, but I'm genuinely curious; how much non-peripheral hardware has Microsoft made? The zune, xbox, and xbox360 are the first that come to mind, what else is there?
 
This thing looks freaking awesome. Wish I had the cash for it, Im sure it wont be cheap. I doubt it will ever come close to a price point of $300.

I wonder if the OS behind it is windows based and will allow you to run windows applications, that would be the icing on the cake (and I suspect is the case).

VirusType2 said:
You don't even have to plug it in to charge it. That technology is win. I've got it in my electric toothbrush, but I still haven't got around to learning how it works yet.

(I mean the battery charging technology of course, not the toothbrush)
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I would guess it uses magnetic energy to charge it. Magnetic energy can be converted to electricity and viceversa. In fact electric energy and magnetic energy are almost exactly the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_charging
 
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