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OQO garners two more awards in 2005

PC News Weekly names the OQO model 01 in its "Top 100 Products of 2005" and IT Week Magazine gives OQO the "Unique Product of the Year Award"

San Francisco, CA | December 19, 2006 - Today OQO announces that it has been recognized for outstanding technology innovation and best technology product in 2005. PC News Weekly named the OQO model 01 in its "Top 100 Products of 2005" and IT Week Magazine gave OQO the "2005 Unique Product of the Year Award" and included the company in the "Top 50 Technology Innovators 2005."

OQO is the only company to produce a full-power, full-featured Windows XP computer that fits in your pocket. In September 2005, OQO announced the newest ultra personal computer, the OQO model 01+, that comes with upgraded specs including 512MB RAM, 30GB hard drive, USB 2.0, internal speaker and other improved features and accessories.

PC News Weekly, a digital technology news publication with over 100,000 subscribers, states that, "Every year thousands of new products appear on the market, some innovating or improving on current technologies, some doing something never thought of before and some not so much of anything. PC News Weekly has filtered through all the good and the bad ones it has reviewed over the last year and brings you the 100 products it deems the best in their class." IT Week Magazine, the U.S.'s largest digital newsweekly for IT professionals, delivers the latest news, product information, opinion and trends. The publication's annual "Top 50 Technology Innovators" highlights the larger trends and developments in the fast-paced IT world for 2005. IT Week Magazine assistant editor Xander Teunissen, noted that, "Wireless and mobile networking have become big in the last year." OQO model 01+ is the only pocketable Windows XP computer that delivers Bluetooth and USB 2.0 capabilities. OQO also received the publication's "Unique Product of the Year Award."

Earlier this year OQO earned PC Magazine's 21st Annual Award for Technical Excellence and also received the 2005 Mobility Award from MobileTrax. PC Magazine's Award for Technical Excellence recognizes products and technologies that have advanced the state-of-the-art and will have a significant impact on the future directions of technology. The MobileTrax award honors the best and finest mobile computing and wireless data communications products and services of 2004.

about OQO

Based in San Francisco, California, OQO, Inc. has developed the OQO model 01+ ultra personal computer (uPC), a full-powered, full-featured personal computer running Microsoft Windows XP in a pocketable form factor.

Jory Bell and Jonathan Betts-LaCroix founded the company in 2000, along with a core group of engineers and product designers, and set out to shrink a Windows XP computer into a pocketable device. Their vision was to transform personal computing in the way cell phones revolutionized telecommunications. For more information oqo.com.

Contact Virginia Jamieson, at 415-835-5974 or press@oqo.com