News - Microsoft to tackle Apple iPad with Courier digital journal?

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Leaked details ignite excitement for a rumoured digital journal device codenamed the Microsoft Courier.

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[Powderhound]

That looks infinitely cooler than the iPad. I want one.

[abaxas]

Owww great!

It's like two mini pads hinged together running windows mobile. I'll take 0, please.

[miniyazz]

Much better idea. Suddenly it's twice as portable as the iPad with greatly reduced chance of getting damaged (screen can be folded away). If it has the resolution to successfully multitask, they're onto a winner.

[Fraz]

Wow... I was just in the pub with a mate talking about the iPad. I was saying how sucky it was, and how I'd want a device that replaces my paper-based lab book. In particular I want something that I can control with both finger presses as well as a stylus, so I can jot down notes or draw some diagrams etc, as well as doing normal iPad-like stuff like web-browsing. If anything, this device is even better than the device I imagined in the pub just now.

Awesome. Me want!

[mikerr]

Cool

I can imagine moving that to landscape and having keyboard on bottom pane, so it looks like a netbook


"Why have a sketch(i)pad when you can have a book ? "


Apple still has its appstore/book store trump card though.
Easy for publishers with its ordering system and drm.

Kindle is great for reading, but it will miss out on full colour multimedia books that the ipad will get from the likes of penguin:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/p...-making-waves/

Maybe microsoft should partner with amazon, and make this the "kindle multimedia" ?