OQO Introduces First Ultra Mobile PC with Integrated Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess

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OQO Introduces First Ultra Mobile PC with Integrated Verizon Wireless BroadbandAccess High Speed Data Service Capability

Award-Winning model 02 Now Available with Embedded Verizon Wireless EV-DO
WWAN Capability

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- OQO Inc., mobile computing
innovator and creator of the groundbreaking model 02 computer, today
announced that OQO is now offering the model 02 computer with integrated
EV-DO Wireless WAN capability compatible with the Verizon Wireless
BroadbandAccess service. Recently unveiled at CES 2007, where it received
numerous industry awards and accolades, the OQO model 02 is the world's
smallest fully-functional PC.
Customers in the United States will now be able to access email, the
Internet, and business and personal applications utilizing Verizon
Wireless' EV-DO BroadbandAccess service powered by the nation's most
reliable high-speed wireless broadband network. Verizon Wireless
BroadbandAccess service provides average download speeds of 400-700
kilobits per second, and is currently available coast to coast covering
more than 200 million people in over 242 major metropolitan areas.
"Today's announcement demonstrates how Verizon Wireless and OQO are
together pushing the frontier of mobile productivity," said Cindy
Patterson, Verizon Wireless vice president enterprise data sales. "The high
speed and broad coverage of Verizon Wireless' EV-DO network and
BroadbandAccess service, combined with the convenient form factor of the
OQO model 02, means that users will be more connected, more efficient, and
more effective than ever before."
"This collaboration with Verizon Wireless is another important step
forward in realizing our vision of Anytime/Anywhere Productivity," said Bob
Rosin, senior vice president of marketing & alliances, OQO. "Ultra mobile
computing is about taking the same access to information and applications
that you have at your desk, and putting it in a package you can carry with
you all the time."

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