When we last reported on the Microsoft Courier there was little to none on actual details on it. But now we know a couple of things. First, it still leaves us very excited, it weighs under a pound, has a “digital journal feel”, that snazzy pen, and when folded looks like a 5×7 photo card. It’s built on the same core as the Zune HD UI and Windows Phone 7 Series and uses the Tegra 2, but doesn’t run any of the latter OSes mentioned. So far Engadget pegs the launch at later this year, but there are some conflicting reports of it coming around next year (if at all). Even though it’s smaller and probably less feature-loaded, there’s still lots of excitement going on around here, anyway this could still be a prototype, and it could change again. One more shot of it after the break.
Source: Engadget
Windows Phone 7 Series. It’s a lot to say, but brings a lot to the mobile computing scene. Windows Phone 7 will bring a Zune-influenced UI, and has completely ditched Windows Mobile touches all together. Windows Mobile is dead. Windows Phone 7 Series has come to life. Debuted at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft wants to be a major player, and partnerships with carriers and manufacturers is far and wide: AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, while hardware partners include Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm.
Bill Gates ‘ take on the iPad is well, meh. While Steve Jobs thinks netbooks are good at nothing, our good buddy Gates thinks exactly otherwise:
As far as my research can tell, IE8 is one of the most popular web browsers around. Who doesn’t know that? It also happens to be the one that doesn’t support proper web standards. And since LaptopMemo does, it looks, well, crappy. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox work like a dream on LaptopMemo, and because of that I will not be recoding the site for use on Internet Explorer 8 until a solution can be found. IE is nearly unusable, and if you try to use it, it’s a hopeless experience. So I would suggest you switch your browser, so that not only you can enjoy LaptopMemo to its fullest extent but other tech sites as well. Thanks.
With Mobile World Conference edging closer everyday, and evidence of Windows Mobile 7 creeping up on the blogs, a recent Zune software update (today) revealed the Zune.ini file, a file that associates hardware devices with the Zune driver, and inside of that file, 3 lines of code with the word “Phone” with vendor IDs and products IDs are locked to Microsoft. Almost every blog’s guess is that if the word “Phone” appears in a driver file for Zune devices, then a “Zune Phone” is coming? It could also be a Zune integration into a Project Pink phone, but who really knows? It’s a compelling find, isn’t it?
