Long before netbooks were just a twinkle in… somebody’s eye, OQO was making full fledged Windows computers that you could fit in your pocket. The OQO Ultra Mobile PCs were tiny, but they were also pretty expensive and never really sold in large enough numbers to keep the company afloat, and OQO went under in May, 2009. But UMPC Portal…

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Back before the first netbooks were produced, OQO was cramming a full PC into a tiny case that was barely large enough to hold a PDA or cellphone. The latest OQO had a 5 inch OLED display, an Inel Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 3G modem, and could run Windows XP or Vista. Unfortunately, OQO’s computers were never as…

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The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting article looking at the OQO and how this handheld computer is faring against ultraportables like the Eee PC. When the OQO first hit the market, there wasn’t really anything like it. The computer is barely bigger than a PDA, but it packs a full version of Windows XP or Vista, has a slide-out…

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