OMG – Have I Fallen For A Microsoft Product?
Microsoft Courier Looks Gorgeous!
I can’t quite believe that I’d ever say this, but the Courier seems to be (nearly) everything i’d want in a tablet PC. Is it possible that Microsoft has finally managed to trump Apple?
Just take a look at this. This is just soooo beautiful. The world has been holding its breath for the new Apple tablet, but I think ‘the world’ may have been dreaming the wrong dream.
Unlike the predicted Apple tablet, the Courier just seems so much more practical, durable and usable. The form-factor, the interface, the aesthetic, it just ‘does it’ for me.
Take the time to watch the following video. The user-experience shown here seems to be absolutely amazing and sooo natural. This can’t be Microsoft – they just don’t do stuff like this?
The only thing I’d wish for is digital ink, but the technology doesn’t exist yet to support the colour and responsiveness that would be needed here. I’d also ‘beg’ Microsoft to keep-it-simple and not start feature cramming. It’s the (apparent) simplicity of this device that makes it work.
If the Gizmodo story is true, it would appear that the Courier is a real thing and not too far away.
How can I pre order one now? I want one so badly.
Apple does make me wonder sometimes…
This was unexpected, the new fifth generation iPod Nano doesn’t take still photo’s and the camera is in the most awkward position that you can imagine.
My daughter has just turned 8 and she’s a very lucky girl to get a spanking new iPod Nano in blue, no other colour would do, it had to be blue – like mother like daughter. Emelia is over the moon with her new toy but I spent a good while trying to work out how to take photo’s and have now discovered it can’t.
Being fair, Apple doesn’t say that it *does* take stills but it seems so *obvious* that it would. After all it has a *camera* and a *photo library* – duh? Given that the Nano’s have such a small amount of memory, much of which would be taken up by songs, I would have thought that taking photo’s would be more common than memory hugging videos.
I’m hoping that this can easily be fixed in software and will make it into a software update – please Apple!