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hey guys jon rettinger here for those of you that have been watching my videos in the past you know I'm a pretty big a geek and I'm also admittedly an apple fan and I've been waiting anxiously for this rumored apple tablet for quite some time there's been no word at a Cupertino about when it's going to come or even if it even exists for that matter but perhaps we've been waiting for a tablet from the wrong company just yesterday gizmodo com r an exclusive piece about a new tablet from Microsoft that they're calling courier and this isn't just a tablet it's actually two tablets put together take a look it looks like this so what is this courier tablet well according to gizmodo it consists of dual 7-inch capacitive screens those you that might not know what capacitive screens are sort of give you the brief rundown there are two type of touchscreen technologies that are prevalent throughout the world there's capacitive like you see on the iPhone Blackberry storm into mobile g1 and there's another technology called resistive capacitive essentially works by a transfer of electrons from your finger for example so if you try and use anything else to type on the iphone or touch the icon with it's not going to work because no electrons coming through a plastic stylus on the other side of the spectrum you've got resistive that is empowering most windows mobile phones really since they've been in existence and that works by taking two thin layers of film right on top of each other as you push down they create a connection and that connection is what registers are touched and for those devices people use styluses nuts you can really point with anything and that's how those work now the advantage of the resistive touchscreen is you get the stylus which is both a pro and a con it's not very accurate but you can't sort of draw on it like you could on a pencil or paper so back to this courier that gizmodo is reporting on so dual capacitive touchscreens these actually capacitive touchscreens use a stylus if you'd like so you have the option to sort of drawn and right on just as you would on a piece of paper in addition these 7 inch screens are capacitive and make use of multi-touch meaning like you can on an iPhone go to pinch and zoom and according to the video gizmodo rain which you should definitely check out in the sidebar that way or this way one of the sidebars check out the video really shows us in action you take the ability to manipulate files manipulate images and nip y elate web into sort of a journal that they're calling it so you can let's say you're doing a project on problem new electronics and you go to this case gizmodo and you look at something like The Courier you can actually take that little bit of text you can cut it out slide it right over to your other screen save it to your journal you can write some notes you can annotate it save it as a notes and you're good to go you also get a full multi-touch web browser it's got a camera built-in and it uses a single iPhone like home button with some indicators across the top that tell you you know battery life why if i've strengthened those type of things editions got a camera on the back so supposedly this is in the very late prototyping phases and microsoft is out pitching ad agency to sort of promote this as it comes to fruition it looks to be a fantastic product no word on what OS running but odds are it's a custom build OS the video that was shown to not look to resemble windows in any way windows is meant to be a desktop computer you know guess that this is some sort of scaled-down custom version so it is quite exciting and this is sort of showing the tablet what we always expected from a company like Apple perhaps our gazes were just set in the wrong direction so check out the link on this courier device it's quite impressive in the video really is very nice so I'm curious what you guys think if you something that you would use if you have any interest in a tablet do you only want one screen sort of the duel booklet style tablet you sound appealing to you you know I'm skeptical at Microsoft and bring this to reality but if they can and do it at a relatively reasonable price point I think this can set the stage for really future tablets moving forward and take a lot of wind out of companies like Apple sales so I'm very curiously at my club comes out with I one of you guys saying to leave text or video responses for exclusive content checking out on twitter twitter.com / john for lakers or exclusive content checkouts technobuffalo for more exclusive content a lot of exclusive content going around anyway guys I'll see you in the next video Oh bye