Microsoft May Have Confirmed Dual-Screen Tablet

Sweet, but i dont know if it would be of any use for guys like me Oh well

It may be acceptable if it had Android on it but a MS OS is a no go for me.

YES!!! Exactly what us students need! Now you can have a text book on one half and notes for the corresponding page on the other!

Now that the device is expected to turn up, the issue should be more focused on the methods/ideas to use it rather than discussing about the need.. After all its all about the future tech..

mavanhel has got quite a nice idea ready..!!

I am truely amazed that in this day and age we have engineers that dare to create devices with these capabilities. To think in the near future everyone could have a dual screen tablets, hell I could easily fit one of these in my pockets. I never liked tablets mostly because of the lack of a keyboard, but you easily use the lower screen as a keyboard. With all that being said, the big question I think we need to ask ourselves is:

Can is play Crysis?

Something about this just "feels" right. Not sure about Windows CE 6, though, but the hardware design is a winner and will be copied.

I agree with triplanetary, if it's anything like that video that was out last year - this tablet will be fantastic.

I hope they add a pressure sensitive screen; that would be amazing for us artists and photobugs.

I could see a great potential for education, medical, and commerical use as well.

guess apple didn't think of that one; or did they and a lawsuit with m$/apple will be taking place soon? hahahaha

i think the real question we should be asking here is; (no, not the stupid crysis joke) but rather, can it multi-task? bye bye ipad.

Hmmm, I must say that looks/sounds pretty damn cool.

It will most likely be loaded with some derivative of the newer version of the new Zune OS or the Windows Phone 7 OS. Hopefully they will not be going backward with this. This way they can get their app store going stronger and give you access to all the music, movies and now e-books that they will offer with the newer version of the Zune software that will be getting a little overhaul of new feature this year already because of a possible new Zune and the definite Windows Phone 7 launch.

(fingers crossed)

MS really has a device with potential here. I was intrigued by the iPad (all jokes aside) and the possibilities it holds, but this device has even more potential than the iPad does.

So, is it just the bash-apple-happy crowd that frequents here that prevents such ideas as interactive textbooks, interactive children's stories, note-taking capability (some of which are mentioned here to great huzzahs) from being discussed in context of this device but not the iPad? Multitasking is also key. I just wish media handling was more cohesive in a MS ecosystem, so I didn't have to put up with Apple headaches. That's what keeps me on my iPod, cohesive media management.

In the end, this thing looks cool - let's all cross our fingers that MS doesn't hose the effort before it can get off the ground.

This could be the answer to people who want the feel of a traditional paperback book but want it in an e-reader format, let alone all the fun of opening email on one screen and web on the other, or tabs on different screens, or the "screen" on one screen and the "keyboard" on the other screen. Lots of possibilities. Those who would scoff, remember some people scoffed at the idea of multi-monitor desktops not so long ago.

Awesome, Tegra 2. The iPad's Apple A4 processor reportedly uses the much less powerful Cortex A8 reference design, whereas the Tegra 2 uses TWO Cortex A9 cores at 1GHz.

Yeah, I'd get one. Hell of a lot more useful than an iPad.

Use it like a PDA, excellent calendar/appointment book, media device, netbook, reading multipage documents/books, and all the other stuff in that demo video.

Students, huh? Well I'm 54, not a student -- although I am a web developer/designer -- and I'd buy one in a heartbeat. So would my wife, a writer.

I think the Courier will be amazing, if it comes anywhere close to the videos that have been released thusfar. I'd buy one on release day. It sounds useful, unlike the iPad.

but it can't run crysis.

This is what I hope the slate tablets would turn into.

I would find this far, far more useful than the iPad, epsecially if:

1. It ran Windows 7; thus allowing a potentially seamless deployment target for apps written in one of MS's dev platforms (e.g.: .Net).

2. It had good real-world connectivity (e.g.: USB), and forward thinking Wi-Fi Direct.

3. it provided similar media/entertainment capabilities as the iPad.

Let's be honest: if MS is doing this as a reference work to influence others to build it, then this is a waste of our time. If MS is serious, but will wait to see what advantages/disadvantages the iPad has, then this may be too late. If MS is simply waiting until the market is perceived to be a billion-dollars in size (the typical threshold value of MS caring), then, again, it may be too late. They certainly were profoundly slow in the smartphone market. Stunningly so.

The business case for this device's focus - a notebook, where work is done and content is created, mixed and repurposed - hits the damn target in the middle, precisely where the iPad seems miles away. If MS fails to capitlize on this, they are truly on the decline towards becoming ho-hum and largely irrelevant. The future is mobile. Is Ray listening?

This type of device would be fabulous!!! I can see using Adobe Indesign for creation and Acrobat pro for notes etc. in a meeting, making changes to designs. (with a few tweaks)
This device can and will change many things if it ever becomes reality.

This type of device would be fabulous!!! I can see using Adobe Indesign for creation and Acrobat pro for notes etc. in a meeting, making changes to designs. (with a few tweaks)
This device can and will change many things if it ever becomes reality.

Do consumers really need a personal computer?