« Reply #4 on: Fri, 05 March 2010, 17:20:50 »
That is just wicked cool looking. Like the iPad, it suffers from a less than snappy name. What is it with mega companies and the naming of their ultra portable devices?
One thing that will be critical to watch is the fidelity of the pen tool. In these mock-up demos, the user has some impossibly small and neat handwriting. My bet is that in reality, you won't be able to fit as much handwriting in on one page. Pixels can only be so small and the sensors would have to be pin point accurate to produce that much text on a digital device of this size.
It really looks like Microsoft is trying to overcome its reputation for putting out version 1.0's that should have gone through another cycle or two of design and engineering. If that thing is anywhere near what the demos make it appear to be, it will be one slick puppy.
Hopefully they learned something from their rollout of the Zune. I wouldn't even think of buying the first version of a Courier or iPad unless I won the lottery though. Ah, not even if I win the lottery. I don't need more stuff.
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