Atom UMPC first casualty of OQO money woes?
Punters prefer (much) cheaper Eee PCs
OQO, the California UMPC maker, has canned its latest model, if rumours fed by Twitter tweets are correct. The same source also claims that pre-orders have been cancelled.
OQO's OQO 2+: will it ever see the light of day?
The rumours appear to have started after a Twitterer called Chippy, who runs a UMPC-oriented blog, posted a message stating: “According to an email, all OQO production is now stopped. OQO 2+ will not be produced.”
Shortly after his first OQO missive, Chippy posted a second message claiming that “all OQO 2+ pre-orders will be cancelled”. OQO has yet to make any formal announcements.
But, adding fuel to the fire, online retailer Expansys told Register Hardware today that it is no longer selling any OQO models, with the exception of “B-Stock” secondhand machines, although it couldn’t/wouldn’t tell us why.
OQO has already acknowledged that money is tight. The firm’s senior sales and marketing veep, Bob Rosin, last week told the Wall Street Journal that the company's “working capital has been very tight”.
Despite several attempts to clarify the issue with OQO, the firm declined to answer Register Hardware’s questions about the production status of the OQO 2+ or the company's financial health. ®
COMMENTS
@Mike Taylor
I confess I did not know this - it is truly amazing how language evolves so rapidly (or should that be vapidly) in the world of web-two-point(less)-oh :-)
@Ian McNee
I believe a constant flow of tweets from a twat is a twatterblat.
@Ian McNee
Thanks for the first laugh of my day! Not bad, it's only 5:30 :-)
i want one if it makes out
My source of news regarding OQO is www.oqotalk.com where you can find out that some units sent to repair have been returned without fix and without word whats going on...support returns just voice mailbox etc... and that dynamism still list unit to be delivered on 22nd may... but no extra batteries are listed
I played with unit on CEBIT 2009 .. love it OLED is amazing... i want it even if they fold afterwards... but et least let my buy 1 spare battery ...;)
bah, x86
Power hungry x86 architecture on such tiny device is a mistake. Too short battery life, too much heat, too high price. These OQOs aren't Atoms nor anything close to it. Good they are gone.
