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[Dennis Moore]

Please do not publicize that you can play Runescape on an OQO...I told my kids it doesn't work on my OQO so I don't have to share it with them...

Maybe we should start a Runescape on OQO topic here    My son is always looking for new friends there to go on adventures with.

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO

[Dennis Moore]

I trade the stock market for a living. This trapped me at home chained to my computer. I loaded my trading program in my [OQO], fired up the Verizon account, and can travel all over the place while monitoring, and trading, my stocks in live action. I have done trades from my [OQO] while traveling all over the place, both locally in NJ, and all the way up to Bangor Maine. Occasionall I lose the connection, like in the mountains of Vermont, but it is pretty good with the external antenna (without that external antenna it would be useless - also would love to see an antennae input so I can get an antenna power booster). I love it.

Steve

Steve --

Love your story, although clearly you have stock symbols on-the-brain (QQQ  ).

I also noticed the OQO frees me from sitting at my desk -- I can relax outside with my family, bid on eBay at a ball game, provide customer service at anytime and from anywhere -- I no longer feel like I have to be chained to my desk in order to do what I need to do in my life.  This is really how OQO and other UMPC's can change your life ...

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO

[j0]

I also noticed the OQO frees me from sitting at my desk -- I can relax outside with my family, bid on eBay at a ball game, provide customer service at anytime and from anywhere

Yeah, I was really impressed when you were answering these forums on weekends and at odd hours of night.

My OQO is a multi-purpose machine, I use it as a music/video player, maps (coupled with bluetooth GPS receiver), e-book reader, handhold gaming device,  portable connectivity to my e-mail, look up information while on the road.  Now if it can also combine the functionality with a cell phone and a digital camera, that'll be the only gadget I'll have to carry around.

Although two concerns that goes that.  One is a phone needs to be always on, the battery life of oqo is certainly not going to support that, and I would like the camera to at least have good optic lens for good quality pictures.  So Sony UX's camera doesn't cut it (nor most of the camera phones out there).  So I can certainly see why those features are not already in there.

[gadgetsrus]

I use my oqo to help my wife and I run our internet business when taking our children on camping trips, days out ect.

Living in the Scottish higlands we spend a great deal of time sailing, camping and walking, last week we spent a few days on one of the remote islands of the west coast of Scotland.

 I was surprised at the internet speeds I got when tethered to my htc tytn.

Both My wife and I using an oqo +1 and 02 managed to cram many productive work hours in, whilst taking a really nice few days away as a family.

Our oqo's free us from our offices and let us enjoy what we work so hard for in the first place...

[Dennis Moore]

I use my oqo to help my wife and I run our internet business when taking our children on camping trips, days out ect.
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Our oqo's free us from our offices and let us enjoy what we work so hard for in the first place...

gadgetsrus --

"Let us enjoy what we work so hard for in the first place" -- I'm proud to work for a company that does so much for so many people with so little ...

Please contact me on the private message facility of this forum so I can learn more about your business and how you use OQO -- and to thank you for your very uplifting story.

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO

[3goldens]

and send Dennis some pictures! It sounds great what your able to do!

Dennis, I just got a pair of these Bose Quiet Comfort Headphones and in the case with the phones was a little business card holder with a clear window that was filled with a few of what they call "Bose Courtesy Cards".

It says something like, because their customers are always being asked about the product were taking the liberty of enclosing these informational cards for you to pass along to the curious, or something to that effect, if you want one just email me and I'll drop it in the mail to you.

[Dennis Moore]

I'll be looking at the cards solution, and I'm glad to hear someone has joined the affiliate program -- post your link here so we can check it out and direct people there!

I've been posting a lot of the customer stories on my blog at http://dbmoore.blogspot.com/ -- check them out and subscribe for e-mail updates there.  I'd definitely like to continue to get stories from our OQO community here on OQOTalk.com, so keep those stories coming.  I just got an idea which I will do right away -- creating a thread for people to post pictures of themselves with their OQO computer, along with a little description of where the picture is taken, to show the "anytime / anywhere" theme in the real world.  I hope to post some photos of my own soon ...

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO

[jimhoerricks]

I saw the Model 1 at a training session with the US Coast Guard and wanted one immediately. I am in forensic work and spend a lot of time at crime scenes. I used to have a laptop and a work station in our truck. NO MORE! Now, I've brought all of my Acrobat forms into my new OQO Model 02 and send them over the wireless back to my office with the Verizon link. It was simple to set up and saves me a ton of time and paper. Now I only save the form shell PDF and the XML data from each crime scene. Saves time and hard drive space. We bought 2 and I am glad that we did.
Cheers,
Jim Hoerricks
forensicphotoshop.blogspot.com

[3goldens]

WOW a real CSI guy using an OQO!

We certainly have some very interesting users out there!

[Dennis Moore]

Now, I've brought all of my Acrobat forms into my new OQO Model 02 and send them over the wireless back to my office with the Verizon link. It was simple to set up and saves me a ton of time and paper. Now I only save the form shell PDF and the XML data from each crime scene. Saves time and hard drive space. We bought 2 and I am glad that we did.

Jim --

Great story!  Fighting crime, saving lives, giving back time with the family, making customers more productive and effective -- that's what we make these things for.

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO

[BritOverseas]

Unfortunately, my story is more boring.

Ex industrial control system vendor/software engineer turned commissioning manager in the Oil biz.

Used to carry around a huge laptop bag, 17" Dell XPS, cables, dongles and more stuff than I care to mention, actually weighed 20kg's.

When I swapped jobs I swapped devices and don't regret it for a minute.

I now spend more time explaining that you can indeed fit a "whole" computer in something that small and by my reckoning have sold at least 4 for you. In my industry it is Geek central, so it not that hard a sell.

Docking station stays in my home office, OQO comes with me to work in Central Asia, sync up and back up on my server at home when I get back, perfect.

[Dennis Moore]

Unfortunately, my story is more boring.

Ex industrial control system vendor/software engineer turned commissioning manager in the Oil biz.

Used to carry around a huge laptop bag, 17" Dell XPS, cables, dongles and more stuff than I care to mention, actually weighed 20kg's.

When I swapped jobs I swapped devices and don't regret it for a minute.

I now spend more time explaining that you can indeed fit a "whole" computer in something that small and by my reckoning have sold at least 4 for you. In my industry it is Geek central, so it not that hard a sell.

Docking station stays in my home office, OQO comes with me to work in Central Asia, sync up and back up on my server at home when I get back, perfect.

Very interesting story.  I hope you will sign up for our affiliate program!  Any reason you don't carry your docking station (do you bring a BT keyboard/mouse)?

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO

[BritOverseas]

Unfortunately, my story is more boring.

Ex industrial control system vendor/software engineer turned commissioning manager in the Oil biz.

Used to carry around a huge laptop bag, 17" Dell XPS, cables, dongles and more stuff than I care to mention, actually weighed 20kg's.

When I swapped jobs I swapped devices and don't regret it for a minute.

I now spend more time explaining that you can indeed fit a "whole" computer in something that small and by my reckoning have sold at least 4 for you. In my industry it is Geek central, so it not that hard a sell.

Docking station stays in my home office, OQO comes with me to work in Central Asia, sync up and back up on my server at home when I get back, perfect.

Very interesting story.  I hope you will sign up for our affiliate program!  Any reason you don't carry your docking station (do you bring a BT keyboard/mouse)?

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO

I don't take my docking station because I very rarely use CD's/DVD's any more and it is just one more thing to carry.

As mentioned before, I have a home server where I store all of my media (a Lime unRAID currently at 4.4TB). So, when I buy new films, software or music, it all gets ripped to the server and I just take what I want with me on the OQO's built in drive or a 200GB portable drive I carry too, trust me, it beats carrying a CD wallet around.

Maybe I am being a bit premature but as far as I am concerned, the days of optical media are fast diminishing and either flash or it's replacement will rule soon.

[kyone]

Maybe I am being a bit premature but as far as I am concerned, the days of optical media are fast diminishing and either flash or it's replacement will rule soon.

I 100% agree.

[Dennis Moore]

Cool story from Richard Brown on my blog at http://dbmoore.blogspot.com/2007/10/anytime-anywhere-in-india.html and in the original at http://www.brownknows.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=664&Itemid=25.  I'd bet a lot of us can identify with his story.  Great pix as well -- check it out (and don't forget to post some new stories here -- I'm almost out of material for customer stories on my blog !).

Thanks for being our customer!

-- Dennis Moore, OQO