Pretty please!

Have to say this was one of the funniest postings I've read on here in a while, love the self-deprecating humor! Keep it up.

Michael,

We have called you several times and left you voice mails. Are you not getting our messages? I'd suggest calling us when it's convenient for you- our phone number is listed right on our site!

Blessings,

Dave Haupert
DDH Software, Inc

I was referring to the fact that it was a model 2 not a 2+. Guess it's not a fact, but the fact that the 2+ is not yet shipping (until May 09), and there would be no incentive for OQO to send one of their precious few review units out to show on TV where only geeks like us will notice the difference, and that the TV show was filmed months ago (post production alone takes usually 6+ weeks and since this is their second episode, it was likely ordered almost immediately after approval of the pilot). Oh, and you can see the arrows for the capacitive touch scrollers when you watch the show. Those are no longer present on the 2+.

Hope that clarifies that it was not an 'Intel inside' unit!

> The only thing intel about the OQO is the processor

Actually the Model 2 has a Via processor, not an Intel, and yeah, it's otherwise very apple-like, except one key detail- the noise level. The fan whine can be very frustrating and no solution I'm aware of (or change in the upcoming OQO, from what reviewers are saying). Other than that a great well-designed device.

I wonder if you could hear the fan whine in the TV show!

Dave from DDH here (makers of HanDBase). Few responses:

Filou, there are trial versions of all the desktop packages. On PC there are several configurations depending on whether you need a basic conduit, one that syncs with Access, or one that syncs with other ODBC sources. On Mac, there is just a simple desktop at this point. We are hoping to have an improved version and a mac conduit before the end of the year.

lefty27, we did edge testing on the app, testing databases with 65,000 records (the max we support) and 100 fields. They worked fine and the iPhone is actually the fasted handheld running a database of that size of the platforms we support. Took about 2 seconds to open and navigated like any smaller database. The only area that suffers is the Desktop Connect mode (web server) which struggles with databases of more than 4MB currently. Most databases are not even close to that, even the 65000 record one was only 2MB, but if you use big fields like note fields and have somewhere over 30,000 records you may have trouble uploading a database from the desktop to the iPhone.

If you all have any other questions, feel free to contact us!

My cat's breath smells like cat food

We have a winnah! It's me!

Come on Engadget, Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!

Sure it doesn't have the tilt feature? PocketPCThoughts.com said it did, which was a surprise to me. Obviously one site is in error and I'm too lazy to dig into the specs to find out which!