Microsoft Courier Tablet

By Nick Mokey
September 25th, 2009

Apple’s late-summer announcements have come and gone with nary a peep about the much-talked-about tablet, but in the meantime, plenty of other companies have been quick to run for their boards and ride the wave of tablet interest that has surged up with the mere rumble of one from Apple.

Toshiba hopped in with the Journe Touch, Archos pushed things a step further with its Archos 9, which will run Windows 7, and now, the Tom to Apple’s Jerry has stepped up with its own. This week, Microsoft laid its cards on the table with the Courier tablet.

Not so much a tablet as a “booklet,” (Microsoft’s own terminology) the Courier folds dual seven-inch inch screens within a book-like factor that completely seals up the screens when closed. Like the iPhone or Zune HD, both screens allow multi-touch ...

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