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Old 10-23-07, 02:39 PM   #1 (permalink)
Chris Leckness
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Steve's First impressions about the OQO Model e2 1.6Ghz

Steve at UMPCPortal.com got a OQO 02 to review and here is a fragment of what he think about this device. 

...Another thing that annoys me is the extremely noisy fan. When I say 'extremely' I mean, at hand-held distance. It's way too noisy for sofa-surfing, bedtime use, ebooks and arguably, as a desktop PC. Once the fan gets on song (as it does all the time when you're using high performance settings) its louder than all UMPCs I've tried. There's no HDD indicator light on the device, there's a limited vertical viewing angle and I'd have loved to have seen an SD or Mini-SD card slot. Oh, and the speaker is terrible but that's par for the course on UMPCs. Only Nokia and Samsung have managed to crack that nut by using, one presumes, their mobile phone technology. Finally, where's the 3G OQO? They won't get away with calling a UMPC 'mobile' in 2008 unless its got some form of 3,3.5 or 4G data connectivity but I hear that something could be in the pipeline for Europe so I think they've got it covered.

The OQO 02 is another one in my list of UMPC to write about it but I have to confess that I had a very bad experience with my first VIA UMPC and I do not feel that my OQO review will be balanced with me still being under that bad impression. I tested another VIA machine, the Amtek T770 which was working a lot better than the T700, and the fan on it was not that noisy.

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