Toshiba Libretto W100 – a dual-screen iPad for Courier fans

We used to love our old Toshiba Libretto 50, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s laptop business, the company has unveiled a dual-screen Windows 7 laptop, the Libretto W100.

We used to love our old Toshiba Libretto 50, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s laptop business, the company has unveiled a dual-screen Windows 7 laptop, the Libretto W100.

So, it turned out to be one long tease from Microsoft.
After setting the tech world ablaze with tempting, tantalising video titbits of its sensational-looking Courier concept, Microsoft has pulled the plug on the dual-screen dreamboat device.
We’re more stoked up than a Great Western Railway King Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive when it comes to Microsoft’s hotly rumoured Courier tablet/digital journal, so we were well chuffed when more details emerged over the weekend.
Tech site Engadget posted up what it says are a selection of leaked images and a video, and it looks like the device is building up a healthy head of steam – and it’s smaller than we expected too.
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Gizmodo have released more info about Microsoft’s fascinating Courier tablet, with the site showing an internal video showing how the company thinks we’ll use Courier.

The video looks less of a concept piece than the first, with the interface looking smoother, offering a more defined folder system, universal search and multi-page web browsing. Perhaps this is close to the finished thing?
If the report on tech site Gizmodo is accurate, you’re looking at Microsoft’s revolutionary new ‘Courier’ tablet PC – or rather ‘booklet’-form factor, mobile folding thingamabob wotsit.

According to the site, the device comes in a novel booklet form with dual 7-inch multi touch screens, with users interacting by writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, or using their fingers.
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