{"id":805,"date":"2009-09-23T07:15:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=805"},"modified":"2009-09-23T07:15:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:15:24","slug":"courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Courier: First Details of Microsoft&#8217;s Secret Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/image7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/image_thumb4.png\" width=\"188\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a> It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we&#8217;ve all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft&#8217;s astonishing take on the tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Courier is a real device, and we&#8217;ve heard that it&#8217;s in the &quot;late prototype&quot; stage of development. It&#8217;s not a tablet, it&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>link &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5365299\/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5365299\/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5365299\/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we&#8217;ve all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft&#8217;s astonishing take on the tablet. Courier is a real device, and we&#8217;ve heard that it&#8217;s in the &quot;late prototype&quot; stage of development. It&#8217;s not a tablet, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,43],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}