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Microsoft Courier UI details leak: perfect pen/finger balance?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 5th 2009 No Comments

Microsoft’s Courier project – a dual-display “book” style electronic journal – has been intriguing us since it first leaked back in September, and the latest spillage of UI details courtesy of Gizmodo’s mysterious tipster is doing nothing to temper our interest. The twin screens are both multitouch-capable and respond to fingers and the special stylus, the latter having two side-buttons (the upper one being an “undo” key), an eraser on the other end, and a rotating barrel that flips between different pen modes.

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Ballmer: Microsoft “are not interested in e-readers”

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 No Comments

Amazon are looking to foreign climes with the Kindle, Barnes & Noble are preparing to make a splash with both monochrome and color ebook devices, but Steve Ballmer doesn’t reckon his customers care about standalone ebook readers. Speaking to reporters in the Netherlands this week, the outspoken Microsoft CEO revealed that his company has no plans for creating a dedicated device: “We have a device for reading. It’s the most popular device in the world. It’s the PC.”

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Apple iPad tablet to run iPhone OS, 3G & non-3G versions tipped?

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 29th 2009 3 Comments

It’s not all Microsoft’s Courier grabbing tablet headlines today; Apple’s touchscreen tablet is also making waves, with iLounge claiming to have more insider news on the upcoming device. According to their sources, there have been three separate prototypes of the device they’re calling the “iPad”, starting with a 7-inch display which was then junked for a larger, 10.7-inch capacitive touchscreen running at around 720p resolution.

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Microsoft planning mid-2010 launch for Courier: perfect note-taking tablet

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 29th 2009 No Comments

After the second leak of Microsoft's Courier dual-touchscreen tablet, ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley has stepped in with some leaked information of her own. It looks as though our suggestion that the origins (and intentions) of Courier lie in Microsoft OneNote was accurate, with Foley's source saying "The concept started as a software idea on how one would really build OneNote from scratch if you could for the Tablet form factor. That then morphed into building a tablet. If you look at the most successful pocket computer today - it is still the Franklin Covey Planning Products, the idea was how do you create a digital planner."

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Microsoft Courier leaks again: your “infinite journal” [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Sep 29th 2009 No Comments

A second video and more details on Microsoft’s Courier notebook-tablet project have arrived, again courtesy of Gizmodo’s sources, and in spite of the shift toward finger-entry of text seen in smartphones over recent years, it looks as though Microsoft are pushing forward with pen-input. At Courier’s heart is the “infinite journal”, an ongoing – and thankfully searchable – document that can be used to collect together snippets of text, diagrams, webpages and more, and that integrates with a PIM and contacts system.

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Microsoft Pink Turtle and Pure phones leak

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Sep 24th 2009 No Comments

Crystal ball, secret tunnel or loose-lipped mole; we don’t know how Gizmodo are doing it, but hot on the heels of the Microsoft Courier dual-touchscreen tablet leak comes shots of Microsoft’s two upcoming Pink cellphones. The Microsoft Turtle (the squarish model) and Microsoft Pure (the more traditional handset) are both manufactured by Sharp and will be co-branded, and like the Sidekick – which Sharp also manufactured for Danger – will be targeted at a messaging-friendly youth market.

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Microsoft Courier tablet breaks cover: dual-screen multitouch [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 23rd 2009 No Comments

Having heard the rumors earlier this week about Microsoft’s supposed tablet project, imagine our surprise to see this, the Microsoft Courier. Gizmodo grabbed the details on the dual-touchscreen tablet, which folds along its center spine and can be used with either a pen stylus for handwriting recognition or with fingertips complete with multitouch gestures. Each panel is believed to be roughly 7-inches, and the whole project is apparently in “late prototype” stage of development.

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