Courier, the Miniature Surface Zune Tablet Emerges!

Posted by Zealot on Sep 23, 2009

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…and it is GORGEOUS!!!

All the rumours were spot on. For all the times I have wanted to feed my hat to the fanbois at 9to5Mac, it is now off to them… they really nailed this one and it is a BIGGIE! This dual 7 inch multitouch screen folding book-style beauty is indeed called Courier, it is a late model prototype shepherded at Microsoft by the dead sexy J Allard and currently awaiting a manufacturing partner and it is being deliberately leaked exclusively to Gizmodo. What’s more, Giz says they will have several days of leaks to pass along in which they are promising to delve deep into the incredibly attractive (but still frustratingly vapourish) device.

Here is a bit of what Gizmodo’s mysterious Courier source, The Paperboy,  has to say in the first post…

The Courier user experience presented here is almost the exact opposite of what everyone expects the Apple tablet to be, a kung fu eagle claw to Apple’s tiger style. It’s complex: Two screens, a mashup of a pen-dominated interface with several types of multitouch finger gestures, and multiple graphically complex themes, modes and applications. (Our favorite UI bit? The hinge doubles as a "pocket" to hold items you want move from one page to another.) Microsoft’s tablet heritage is digital ink-oriented, and this interface, while unlike anything we’ve seen before, clearly draws from that, its work with the Surface touch computer and even the Zune HD.

This could be ginormous, mindbendingly giant asteroid HUGE…or it could still come to less than nothing and become one of the great “what ifs” of the mobile computing industry leaving a smoking crater where Microsoft’s resurgent reputation once was. Flip a coin.

Stay tuned…and by the way, cancel my Apple Tablet preorder. The giant iPod thing now looks so last year. See all that Gizmodo has to say about the Courier thus far, along with more pics HERE.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, HP Mini 311, iPod Touch 3G, iPad 16G or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Wil Wheaton!).

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  • http://businesscashadvanced.net/ Ronk

    I must confess; this product looks very cool. Then again, the Zune is pretty cool too. Just a little late in the game.

  • http://businesscashadvanced.net/ Ronk

    I must confess; this product looks very cool. Then again, the Zune is pretty cool too. Just a little late in the game.

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