Gigahertz phone battle heats up, and Microsoft throws tablet in the mix
Published: 24 September, 2009
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The Courier adopts the dual-screen, book-shaped format that Asustek is using for its ebook reader, allowing the separate 7-inch screens to be used side-by-side for different applications (like reading a document and making notes, or looking up references online, or discussing it with a colleague). According to Gizmodo, the Courier is at the "late prototype" stage.
Courier will have the ability to serve as a home media hub, and Gizmodo says it will also have a camera in the back and a wireless charger similar to Palm Pre's Touchstone. Its screens will be multitouch, and users can write, flick or draw on them with fingers or stylus. The blog comments: "The Courier user experience presented here is almost the exact opposite of what everyone expects the Apple tablet to be. It's complex: two screens, a mash-up of a pen dominated interface with several types of multitouch finger gestures, and multiple graphically complex themes, modes and applications. 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."
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