One of the reasons I bought an OQO was because of the active digitizer. I really hope they don't get rid of it. Vista and XP aren't, from my experience, designed for finger usage on such a small screen. Plus the inking experience sucks on a touch screen.

What John in Norway said (except I'm still saving up for an OQO). I hope it's either dual mode, you get your choice, or some other way of maintaining a great inking experience. With all the clamor for touch, people are overlooking that touch only works well on small screens when the user interface is designed for it. (Imagine iPhone if had the Mac OS X Finder interface. It would be unusable. The Menlow based MIDs quite pointedly have a UI that looks nothing XP, Vista, or any pre-existing Linux distribution. Actually, they look vaguely iPhone.) So, I hope whatever programs you want to run in your car have touch optimized interfaces, and you never have to fall back to the operating system.

Maybe this will get them lots of sales. (I've read comments from people who absolutely refuse to consider any device which does not have a touchscreen.) Dual mode is probably the most usable solution. Will a dual mode sensor help make the OQO thinner though (like that video also claimed they were working on)? I'm dubious.

A thinner model is some way off, the touch screen will be out soon it seems

cmoooon you tablet guys!

You have your digitizers and inking on current models.

Let oqo do a version for us who like poking the screen with fingers...
Let it be soft touch, wo active d and let us poke our xps and vista even "the experiment" is not good enaugh for you.

...and let us use keyboard for writing.

.. dual mode is not optimized for good pricing.

I want my ink. Hope next major release keeps active digitizer, improve with higher resolution, bigger screen w/o enlarging unit dimensions, and if touch added make it dual mode. Plenty of OQO wannabees out there with touchscreen & cheaper, just not as tight as the 02.

disagree with you, jkk. There are plenty of passive touch systems out there, and hardly any small form factor optimized for both touch and active pen.

Next version better be dual-mode active / touch - either auto sensing or setting.

jkkmobile, no one is suggesting either/or. No one has suggested that introducing a touchscreen is a bad idea. I think it's great they are trying to get the people who will only consider touchscreen based devices. What I don't want to see is that they discontinue the active digitizer model when they introduce the touch screen. I'd like to see them serve both segments of the market. (i.e., those who want touch can get touch. Those who want inking can get inking.)

As for good pricing, are you saying that OQOs are optimized for good pricing now?

According to Dennis Moore posted at oqotalk, the info in the video is false and made by a "rogue" former employee.