ZDNet has a video interview with OQO CTO Jonathan Betts-LaCroix with lots of hands on time with the OQO handheld PC, the little sliding-face 1GHz brick with the integrated keyboard that OQO plans to ship in the fall (although ZDNet is saying July). There’s no doubting its gadget appeal, but will consumers pay upwards of two grand for a PDA-replacement PC (“that doesn’t run the PalmOS or the Pocket PC” or that there Leenucks, neither) when PDA sales in general have been falling? Hard to say, but if nothing else we’ll have a highly-hackable PC with lots of ports (USB and Firewire, among others) and wireless to play with for the next few years.
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