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Giz­modo cre­ated a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.

Do we see Microsoft hav­ing to com­pete and maybe even innovate?

If we are to believe the video and images that Giz­modo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a styl­ist and touch­screen combined.

It is intriguing.

Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more com­pact device. It also cre­ates two infor­ma­tion spaces. A menu or selec­tion side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the inter­ac­tion with the appli­ca­tion takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a lap­top. It doesn’t thrill me.

Con­sumer hokey.

I also see the jour­nal con­cept with the same dis­taste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graph­ics. Is the tablet a con­sumer device? Is it really just a big­ger smarter iPhone?

A sty­lus.

A sty­lus is an inter­est­ing addi­tion. How­ever we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the hand­writ­ing recog­ni­tion be good?

I had an early Palm and before that the much more inter­est­ing New­ton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change com­put­ing as much as the orig­i­nal PDA? Apple cre­ated a new plat­form with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.

Who will make the next dom­i­nant device?

Giz­modo cre­ated a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.

Do we see Microsoft hav­ing to com­pete and maybe even innovate?

If we are to believe the video and images that Giz­modo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a styl­ist and touch­screen combined.

It is intriguing.

Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more com­pact device. It also cre­ates two infor­ma­tion spaces. A menu or selec­tion side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the inter­ac­tion with the appli­ca­tion takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a lap­top. It doesn’t thrill me.

Con­sumer hokey.

I also see the jour­nal con­cept with the same dis­taste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graph­ics. Is the tablet a con­sumer device? Is it really just a big­ger smarter iPhone?

A sty­lus.

A sty­lus is an inter­est­ing addi­tion. How­ever we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the hand­writ­ing recog­ni­tion be good?

I had an early Palm and before that the much more inter­est­ing New­ton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change com­put­ing as much as the orig­i­nal PDA? Apple cre­ated a new plat­form with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.

Who will make the next dom­i­nant device?