OQO's Tiny PC Is First Computer On Sprint's New Wi-Max Network
You may not be familiar with the OQO 02 but the company is making some big announcements today regarding its pre-UMPC UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC). This tiny little device is a getting trio of upgrades that make the miniature Via-powered Windows computer even more lust worthy.
First up is a 64-gigabyte SSD (Solid State Drive). The 64-gig of Flash won't hold your massive collection of illegally downloaded movies, but it will make loading the bloated Vista and other applications dramatically faster. Then the company has fit the diminutive device with a sunlight readable screen, so when it warms up and gets sunny you can take this bad boy to the park and check your e-mail while everyone else does the things you're supposed to do in a park.
Lastly, and certainly not least, the OQO 02 now has Wi-Max, a 4G wireless technology that is just now beginning to see the light of day in the U.S. OQO has partnered with Sprint to make the OQO 02 the first device capable of running on Sprint's Xohm Wi-Max network. Xohm should average download speeds between 2 and 4 megabits per second, more than 2 to 4 times the speed of Sprint's current EVDO network. At speeds like that, streaming high-quality video over the air shouldn't be a problem, and, at last, thank goodness, the difference between access on your home PC and your mobile phone or mobile-broadband-capable computer won't be all that discernable.
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