Year of the tablet?

So, now that the general consensus seems to be that the iPad may not be the killer gadget we all hoped it to be (I like to make broad generalizations), it's maybe good not to forget that there's still a big giant out there working on their own portable device.

Take another look at the MS Courier booklet (I know, it's news from 2009, so by internet standards it's already gathering dust).
Sure, we haven't seen it in real life, but now that we've seen the first glimpses of Windows Mobile 7, I have to admit that MS seems to be sitting on some very very cool new tech. I guess that silly MS Surface technology is trickling down into smaller items:

MS Courier: Interface demonstration
apparently not just some flashy demo, but in advanced stages of prototyping.

And as an extra: Windows Mobile 7