Not generating as much fervour, just yet, as the heavily anticipated iPad from Apple is the rumoured Microsoft Digital Courier – a mobile device that is more like a book than any device you might have seen as yet. Finding it’s place as a “digital journal” early images indicated it has the feel of a cross between a Nintendo DSi and the Microsoft Zune, and uses a digital pen for annotating and navigating it’s screen.

The Courier is still vapourware, largely fuelled by hearsay, but if it does emerge it could find it’s place as a middle ground device, somewhere between the mobile phone and the mobile internet device (where the iPad has it’s feet firmly planted) with a small 5-7” dual display hinged to form a book like function offering additional protection for the screen.