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Microsoft "Courier" Pictures
tekgoblin writes to let us know that Gizmodo has some early shots of the new prototype "Courier" booklet (foldable tablet) on the way from Microsoft. "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."
What if I want a Comic Sans?
but does it run Linux?
And I would also imagine it being a lot better to hold. Notebook or laptop aren't exactly comfortable on bed/sofa/other place than on a table, but books surely are.
Speak for yourself - it's all dependent upon belly size.
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
Maybe Microsoft will learn from those mistakes and put a fake horse's ass on this device.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
By the time this moves from prototype to release, "Booklet" will seem like the soul of wit.
"Microsoft Booklet Live Mobility Series Professional Edition" rolls off only the nimblest of tongues...
Wait for Courier New.
I would consider a Courier except for the fact that it won't support email as standard. According to the article Microsoft have decided that email is outmoded and won't be supported on their new device except as a legacy add on for 'last generation' computer users. In fact Bill Gates is quoted as saying "in Courier, email is only for old people."
MS's ability to name things has always be bad.
Maybe Microsoft's wit for naming things is rubbing off on Apple. I mean really, iPad!?
Heh, Microsoft could say this is like an iPad, but with wings.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
I can re-purpose my Hammer Pants for something!
Wow, with the Windows-experience wizard and the designers of Xbox and Zune on board, what could possibly go wrong?
Sounds like what you want is a laptop. You should buy one of those instead.
A real device is a physical entity. CGI movies are not real devices.
Fiat Homos et Pereat Theos
Actually, "Microsoft Windows Live Foundation Mobility Series .Net Professional Edition R2 SP1" could be it.
Are we still talking about Microsoft? Or Capcom?