Steve Ballmer might have no idea what's going on with the
Microsoft Courier tablet, but a new set of documents leaked to
Gizmodo certainly suggests the product is more than just a
couple videos the boss-man hasn't seen. The images detail the Courier's unique user interface, which draws on everything from multitouch gestures to pen-based handwriting recognition. The heart of the interface appears to be the Smart Agenda, pictured above, which pulls together all your disparate content like calendar entries, emails, and to-dos into one unified starting place, described as "Cliff Notes" to the Pagestream "novel." The journal itself appears to be searchable by all kinds of data, including time, location, and tags, and it's all accessed by a special multi-button pen. There's also a camera and an offhand mention of "boos and subscriptions," so it sounds like whoever was dreaming this all up considered using the Courier as an ebook reader as well -- which would be totally sweet, given the types of annotations you could do. Of course, none of this is real yet, but we're hoping against hope -- please, Mr. Steve, make our holiday dreams come true?
posted November 4th 2009 1:51PM
then again maybe not. :P
Can I preorder now?
Really looking forward to it!!!
you don't need jobbs for this...
Can anyone tell me the type of screens that are being used? My dream would be Pixel Q's
The Apple iSlate is going to overshadow the Couier just like the iphone has overshadow any phone that has been thrown at it. I'm a PC guy, but I know a superior device when I see one. www.islate.org
want want v want want want want want
What's good is that Microsoft are actually trying a whole new thing here, contrasting starkly to Apple's oversized phone with no SMS, camera, flash, physical keyboard or multitasking.