From Crunch Gear/iClarified:
La Fameuse Tablette Mac tant attendue serait en passe d’être « Grillé sur le poteau » par Microsoft, qui est en passe de sortir une Tablette nommée « Courrier ». Cette Tablette est en cours de développement. Ce ne serait pas une tablette en soit mais plus un concept entre un ordinateur et un livre éléctronique, à la fois Mutlitouch, orienté écriture et lecture de documents (Web, livres etc.)
[...]Courier is a real device, and we’ve heard that it’s in the « late prototype » stage of development. It’s not a tablet, it’s a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre. [...]
SourceFrom Crunch Gear/iClarified:
Courier is a real device, and we’ve heard that it’s in the « late prototype » stage of development. It’s not a tablet, it’s a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.
Gizmodo notes that it is Entertainment & Devices tech chief and user-experience wizard J. Allard, who’s spearheading the project. They believe the device to be the exact opposite of what the Apple tablet may be.
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.
