If you are waiting for the Apple tablet then you may be waiting for the wrong device as a real device Courier is coming soon that Microsoft’s astonishing take on the tablet.
Actually, Courier is a booklet, not a tablet. The dual 7-inch screens are multi touch and designed for flicking, writing and drawing with a stylus in addition to fingers. A hinge connects them and holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses are displayed with the rim of one of the screens just like battery life and wireless signal. A camera is on the back cover and might charge through an inductive pad.
Courier was a hidden project inside Microsoft. Therefore, only few engineers and executives those who were working on it, knew about it.
The Courier is the exact opposite of the Apple tablet. It is complex: dual screens, a mash up of a pen-dominated interface with so many types of multi touch finger gestures as well as multiple graphically complex themes, applications and modes. Microsoft’s tablet heritage is digital ink-oriented, and this is something that I have seen before. It works with the Surface touch computer and the Zune HD.
I am sure that it will hit the market before or after Apple’s tablet come to the market. Judging by the Surface, Windows 7 and Zune HD accomplishments, a Microsoft tablet could be another game from the Windows maker that will be nice to play with.
So, would you like to buy an Apple-branded tablet or the one from Microsoft? Which one will be more user-friendly and why? What do you think about a Microsoft’s tablet? Just share your thoughts here with me.
