Microsoft Courier Tablet details revealed

November 5, 2009

Everything available at this hours on the net about the secretive Microsoft Courier tablet PC (not Apple Tablet, but a competitor for the fruity company's future product) seems almost too good to be true. The videos available show more than an interactive media tablet, but a complete electronic agenda and organizer that can recognize hand writing, save drawings and scribbles and notes, keep e-books like an e-reader, access and share documents through web browsers and manage an Infinite Journal. Jane Austen is missing all the fun. We bet she could have turn MS's promotional tag actual reality.

A new set of highly secret documents has yet again leaked from Microsoft to the boys at Gizmodo, and they were kind enough to post them online. The post includes images detailing the Courier's unique user interface, which makes use of every cool thing we know by now from touchscreen phones, from multitouch gestures to stylus-based handwriting recognition. At the center of the UI appears to be the Smart Agenda, an application which brings together all types of content, such as calendar entries, emails, memos, to do's lists into a unified starting place (like your fridge door), which are called “Cliff Notes” brought into the Pagestream “novel” (like your fridge door being indexed each day and all fridge door indexes added in the same place).

So this fancy journal composed of dual 7 inch touch screens looks and feels more like a booklet, than a tablet. Users can search through the device by a series of different parameters, like time, location, and tags, and the search feature can be used through a special multi-button pen. The journal also includes a camera, of course, although we're not quite sure how the device can be handled in order to tak pictures. It's rahet big, and well, it looks like a book. Flash the book at someone? Either way, this Courier booklet is definitely on our wish list for this Christmas, but we don't presume it would be on shelves by then, maybe sometime next year. Until then, be our guest to check the videos below describing how users are supposed to use the Courier.

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