OQO CEO Moore- we’re not announcing Atom deployment

Fans of the pocket-sized OQO UMPC have been understandably excited with the appearance of an OQO at IDF running the Atom processor. It’s a natural fit (pun intended) and reaction in the OQO community has been as expected. Company CEO Dennis Moore has posted a comment at OQOTalk that points out that the single unit displayed by Intel at the IDF is just a technology preview and they are not announcing a model so equipped:

Folks –

Yes, indeed, that is an OQO prototype shown with an
Intel(r) Atom(r) processor. Intel is showcasing the OQO prototype in a
couple of their keynotes and elsewhere at IDF because we have achieved
by far the best performance with their processor in our technology
demonstration.

Note that this is not a product launch or
announcement, but is a demonstration of what we think an Intel Atom
processor should do in a product targeting users who need the ultimate
in mobile productivity, and demonstrates all the areas where OQO has
led the market for years — performance, battery life, thermals,
usability, design, and form factor. While there are other small and
light devices using Intel’s Atom processor, none of them comes close to
the performance and productivity we are showing with this technology
demonstration.

Intel selected OQO to collaborate on developing
technologies that will further enhance the productivity of enterprise
mobile workers and individual mobile professionals, and did so due to
OQO’s longstanding leadership in ultra-mobile computing. OQO is
participating in this technology demonstration to showcase leading-edge
advances in ultra-mobile computing and to reinforce OQO’s leadership
position in this growing market.

I hope this helps explain today’s news — a technology showcase, not an impending product announcement.

Thanks for being our customers!

– Dennis Moore, OQO