Toshiba to produce a dual screen Windows CE tablet

April 19, 2010 | By Surur

microsoft-courier-tablet_2 Digitimes, with their close industry contacts, has one again leaked some tasty info.

On this occasion they claim, pretty confidently, that Compal will be producing two tablet PC’s for Toshiba, one a standard Android one and the other powered by Windows CE 7.

Toshiba has announced last week that they will be producing the same tablets, but at the time they were labelled as simply an Android and Windows one, making it appear that the Microsoft version actually ran Windows 7 on an Intel chip, like the HP Slate.

According to Digitimes however the tablets will run on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 processor, and the Windows CE 7 version will feature dual screens.

Apparently Compal Electronics will ship the tablets at the end of 2010 or early 2011, a time scale which slots in pretty well with that recent New York Times Microsoft Courier leak.

Toshiba has traditionally had a close relationship with Microsoft, being one of the first to make a Plays for Sure PMP and then being the first OEM of the Zune device before Microsoft took manufacturing internal.

Could this rumour be all about the Courier? Let us know your thoughts below.

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Tagged compal, microsoft courier, nvidia tegra 2, toshiba, windows ce 7

badersk

I hope it is the courier or something like it. If it does multi-touch and Pen input i am there.
Alex

Couriiiieeeer….. I wantz one.
GP007

If true it makes sense, toshiba made the first Zune 30 devices as well. I could see this being true. Unless courier is just another platform like Tablet PC and MS will open it up to lots of OEMs, that can also be true. Only time will tell.
Dark-power

I've been waiting for the courier ever since I first saw it for both work and college. If Toshiba will manufacture the product I'm all for it as they are a good company in terms of quality and customer care. As GP007 said they did make the first Zune so it makes since that MS would work with them again. The only thing I don't like it how long its taking to come out, hurry it up MS!

GP007

There was a story out that said the delay is due to battery life and MS is taking longer to get that higher? Dunno how true that is or not. None of this seems to be official anyways.

Kalif

Huh? If this is not Windows Phone 7 OS, then what is it?

A different OS based on Windows CE?

Microsoft already has Sidekick OS, Windows Mobile OS, Windows Phone 7 OS, Kin OS.

Now we're going to get yet another OS? Built directly onto WinCE7? It's a mad dog's breakfast. All over the place.

manic_dev

All it says is "powered by Windows CE 7". Remember that Windows Mobile is not an OS, its a GUI over Windows CE 5. And Windows Phone 7 is just a GUI over CE 7 (some still argue CE 6). CE 5 and 6 have a default GUI via explorer.exe, and CE 7 probably will too.

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