Ogo is a handheld electronic device which allows the user to communicate via instant messaging

Instant messaging

Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...

 services, email

Email

Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...

, MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service

Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length.The most popular use is to send photographs from...

 and SMS

Short message service

Short Message Service is a text messaging service component of phone, web, or mobile communication systems, using standardized communications protocols that allow the exchange of short text messages between fixed line or mobile phone devices...

 text messages. The device works through Cingular/AT&T Wireless

AT&T Wireless

AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., founded in 1987 as McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., and now legally known as New Cingular Wireless Services, Inc., formerly part of AT&T Corp., is a wireless telephone carrier in the United States, based in Redmond, Washington, and later traded on the New York...

' cellular network and allows unlimited usage for a flat monthly fee. It supports AOL Instant Messenger

AOL Instant Messenger

AOL Instant Messenger is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May 1997...

, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger.

Ogo uses the IXI-Connect OS. It features a clamshell design with a 12-bit

Bit

A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and telecommunications; it is the amount of information stored by a digital device or other physical system that exists in one of two possible distinct states...

 depth color screen on the top half and a full QWERTY

QWERTY

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the...

 keyboard on the lower half. Navigation through the menus is accomplished primarily through the use of a directional pad located on the lower right hand of the device and alternately through buttons that directly access each of the devices features.

The Ogo is part of a family of devices produced by its overseas manufacturer, IXI, which showcase the "personal mobile gateway" concept, wherein the Ogo acts as a wireless gateway for other Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

 enabled devices to access the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

. Other devices in the family include pens and cameras.

AT&T deliberately omitted the wireless gateway capabilities of the Ogo in all domestic advertising, possibly in a bid to keep the device from being used as a flat-rate wireless modem.

After the acquisition of AT&T Wireless by Cingular, the Ogo was no longer offered. Cingular discontinued its Ogo service on October 10, 2006.

The device is also marketed in Germany by 1&1. In Germany, the OGO is called a Pocket Web. The OGO can web surf,email,sync with outlook,IM and all the other things like the US based OGO but it can't play MP3s. It's also available in Austria through A1 and in Switzerland through Swisscom carrier.

Technical Data

Size

11.5 cm × 7.5 cm × 2.5 cm

Weight

162 g

Display

240×160 Pixel = 1/8 VGA with 4096 Colors

Battery Life

120 hours standby, 2.5 hours fully functioning,
charges with a normal USB Mini-Cable (5V)

Ports

Mini USB,
Headphone connection (for the CT-17 and CT-12 version)

Optical Highlights

Backlighting for monitor and for keyboard,
2 color LED for new messages and for charging

Speaker

Monospeaker,
0.8 watt with 8 Ω

Processor

Texas Instruments OMAP P330B with 200 MHz

Memory

16 MB

Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage or transmission with two different values depending on context: bytes generally for computer memory; and one million bytes generally for computer storage. The IEEE Standards Board has decided that "Mega will mean 1 000...

-RAM

Ram

-Animals:*Ram, an uncastrated male sheep*Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela-Military:*Battering ram*Ramming, a military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another...

  and 32 MB NAND

Nand

NAND may stand for:*Nand , an Indian classical raga.*Logical NAND , a binary operation in logic.**NAND gate, an electronic gate that implements a logical NAND....

-ROM

Read-only memory

Read-only memory is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be modified, or can be modified only slowly or with difficulty, so it is mainly used to distribute firmware .In its strictest sense, ROM refers only...

 Flash memory

Flash memory

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It was developed from EEPROM and must be erased in fairly large blocks before these can be rewritten with new data...

 (Samsung)

Wireless connections

Quadband Chip w/ memory ROM,
Dualband 900/1800 (CT-17/CT-12) ie. 850/1900 (CT-15/CT-10) GSM with GPRS-with data relay capabilities
SAR 0.596 W/kg

Keyboard

QWERTZ

QWERTZ

thumb|175px|A computer QWERTZ keyboardThe QWERTZ or QWERTZU keyboard is a widely used computer and typewriter keyboard layout that is mostly used in Central Europe...

 keyboard,
Navi button

Software Base

Operating System

IXI-Connect OS proprietatry system written in C, kernel is based on NucleosOS

Nucleus RTOS

Nucleus OS is a real-time operating system and toolset created by the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics for various central processing unit platforms. Nucleus OS is an embedded software solution and is in an estimated 2.11 billion devices worldwide.Development is typically done on a...

Browser

Gecko Engine (like Mozilla 4.0)

Protocols

IMAP, HTTP, WSP

Wireless Session Protocol

Wireless Session Protocol is an open standard for maintaining high level session. Wireless session is nothing but a normal Web browsing session that starts when the user connects to one URL and ends when the user leaves that URL. By establishing the session means that the session wide properties...

, SyncML

SyncML

SyncML is the former name for a platform-independent information synchronization standard. The project is currently referred to as Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization and Device Management...

, FOTA, RSS

RSS

-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...

Wireless Data

The Ogo is indeed capable of being used as a fully functional GPRS bluetooth modem. Connectivity to Windows and Apple computers was and is still possible, provided a still-activated Ogo is available. The device shows up as a standard bluetooth device.

The European version connects to the web and email push system via the Vodafone GPRS network.

See also

• N-Gage
  N-Gage
  The N-Gage is a mobile telephone and handheld game system by Nokia, based on the Nokia Series 60 platform, released in October 2003. It began sales on October 7, 2003. The N-Gage QD replaced the original N-Gage in 2004....
  
  
• Mylo
  Mylo (Sony)
  My Life Online is a device created and marketed by Sony for portable instant messaging and other Internet-based communications, browsing Internet web sites and playback and sharing of media files. The pocket-sized, tablet-shaped handheld device has a screen which slides up to reveal a QWERTY...
  
  
• Helio Ocean
  Helio Ocean
  The Helio Ocean is a dual slider Internet-enabled multimedia wireless mobile device sold by mobile virtual network operator wireless carrier Helio, and manufactured by Pantech Curitel. A distinctive design feature of the Ocean is its dual sliding mechanism — when slid down in the vertical...
  
  
• T-Mobile Sidekick
  Danger Hiptop
  The Danger Hiptop, also re-branded as the T-Mobile Sidekick, Mobiflip and Sharp Jump is a GPRS/EDGE/UMTS smartphone produced by Danger Incorporated from 2002 to 2010....
  
  
• Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
  Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
  The Nokia 770 Internet tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia, originally announced at the LinuxWorld Summit in New York City on May 25, 2005...
  
  
• Comparison of wifi handhelds

External links

• ogo.com Ogo Web site
• ogomatic.com Web site with Ogo-centric discussion forums (blank, only information that the site is no longer updated)
• ixi.com IXI Homepage
• pocketweb.1und1.de 1&1 Pocket Web web site
• ogo.ch Ogo Swisscom Web site