PDA and Subnotebook Killer?

Purdah writes "I found this site with a description of a new type of palm sixed PC. It runs windows and would be great for mobile uses like music and movies (says it can store 3 movies). Extracts below are from the official website: complete Windows XP wireless handheld computer, cradle to dock with a keyboard and monitor, transforming the OQO to a full feature desktop machine, media player mode with enough memory for 1000 songs or three feature length movies, optimization for cool running and miserly power consumption" Looks a little vaporous to me, as well as thick. But there's an awful lot of potential if they get it right.

Comments

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[cybermace5]

"a palm sixed computer"

The person who typed this needs a BIGGER keyboard, not a smaller one!

How many more times can we post this?

[sweetooth]

http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/16/1732252.shtm l?tid=137

Ultrapersonal?

[sllort]

Someone needs to put a leash on their PR people.

"Introducing the world's first ultrapersonal computer"

Computer: How are you today?
You: Fine.
Computer: I noticed that your morning bowel movement deviated from your mean by 170 grams. What happened last night?
You: Um, you know, I was out with this girl, and... hey, get out of my face!
Computer: Your face has 7,230 pores today.
You: Ahhhhhhhh!

Creepy.

wallet sized?

[kaas]

Quote from their web page: "ubiquitous personal computing in a wallet sized device". Is this referring to wallet size before or after you buy the thing?

Re:Vapor, again.

[Overzeetop]

Damn, the mods are pretty rabid today ;-)

I almost got excited. I went to the page and thought "oh, yeah, this has been here before. But hey - maybe they're shipping now. Um, then again...maybe not."

I was just pointing out that nothing has changed but the snazzy graphics.

Mod this one down too, I'm just posting again to be annoying.

No vaporware here

[AnimalSnf]

This company orignally announced this product a couple of months ago. A write-up on it and some pretty pictures can be found here and here. What is really cool is that the company was started by people from Transmeta and notebook designers for Apple and IBM. Their plans are to release this thing by Christmas, and with that kind of background I highly doubt they are just blowing smoke up the public's ass.

Specs

[Mr_Silver]

Looks a little vaporous to me, as well as thick

Well ignoring the first part, lets get some perspective on this:

The OQO is:

• 0.1" higher than the 10 gig iPod
• 0.5" wider than the 10 gig iPod
• 0.06" thicker than the 10 gig iPod

A little thick ? Christ, you have a 256 meg product with a 10 gig HD running up to 1 gigahertz and you're a little worried about it being a paltry 0.15cm wider than an iPod!!??

My only concern is the battery life? What do you reckon? 45 minutes tops?

And of course the insane price this will be.

A Review at Linuxdevices.Com

[Real World Stuff]

Found here yesterday.

Sick of hearing it...

[SlashChick]

"Flash must die. This website is a good example of why flash is a bad, bad, thing."

Please STOP BLAMING THE TOOL!

This is like saying "I know this really annoying website... and it's made from HTML, so HTML must suck." You even said in your original post that you have found a great Flash site ("PBSkids.org [pbskids.org] where my kids can play games with cookie monster..."), so what is the problem?

Yeah, the linked site is ugly: puke-green coloring and big blinking annoyances. But this isn't Macromedia's fault. Please stop blaming Flash for bad site designers. Bad site designers will be bad site designers, regardless of the tools you give them.

The best thing you can do is to contact the company's marketing department (obviously without using the webmaster@ email address, as this will likely go directly to the site designer) and tell them that you don't like their site. Instead of saying "it's ugly", give concrete reasons why you didn't want to buy the product: "the blinking text obscured what I was trying to read", for instance. In other words, instead of complaining on Slashdot, complain to someone who can actually do something about it.

*sigh* I have to wonder why this is such a hard concept...

Re:cool.. how long..

[Mr. Jaggers]

As soon as it's released... at least according to mizz Anjel Van Slyke. Yeh, I asked them just that question (the last time this story was posted on Slashdot... *snicker* ;) and actually got a pretty prompt response, one evening turnaround on my email. I think that's pretty good, considering the media hype they generated that month... maybe the issue was one they felt needed addressing anyway:

From: me
To: their info email address
Subject: Oqo Ultrapersonal

Are there any plans to offer driver support for a linux based operating system?
Transmeta had done a lot of the legwork and a crusoe compatible linux
kernel is
available. Production quality firewire, usb, 802.11b, and Bluetooth driver
support is also available, so peripherals wouldn't be a problem.

This sort of thing would be very handy for the networking professional on-the-
go for setting up and configuring institutional LAN's.

It's just something to consider.

Thanks, and I await a response!

fast forward 18 hrs...

From: Anjel Van Slyke
To: by way of OQO information desk
Subject: Re: Oqo Ultrapersonal

As full feature, full power personal computer that fits in your pocket, the
OQO will support a Linux based operating system. The current operating
system is WindowsXP.

Thanks for your interest.

Anjel Van Slyke
OQO
www.oqo.com

Aww... how nice of her! Of course, then she forgets that she responded to me and three hours later I get:

As a full feature, full power computer the OQO is capable of supporting
other operating systems including Linux.

Thanks for your interest and we will definitely take your comments into
consideration.

Anjel Van Slyke
OQO
www.oqo.com

Hmm... well, okay.