One Laptop Per Child – XO-3

The One Laptop Per Child group is at it again, this time announcing a Tablet PC for hopefully under $100. Cnet reports that Marvell Technologies will partner with the OLPC group to create the necessary hardware.

Here is a video on the proposed tablet:

According to the Cnet article:

…specs are now taking shape, including an ambitiously low power rating of 1 watt per hour (compared with the 5 watts per hour required by the OLPC laptop). Other promised features include a multilingual, multitouch-screen keyboard with haptic feedback, Wi-Fi, high-quality video (1080p full-HD encode and decode), integrated video and still cameras, high-performance 3D graphics, Flash 10 Internet, and two-way teleconferencing.

The backbone of the XO-3 will be an ARM processor (likely the Marvell Armada 610), with initial models running a version of Google’s Android OS. As with the OLPC laptop, these initial models will be sold within developed nations, subsidizing the less-expensive $75 version (running the open-source, educational Sugar OS) distributed to children and institutions supported by the foundation.

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