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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.