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One Laptop Per Child has cancelled plans to release its XO-3 tablet, although technology from that project could still be used in other products, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said.
What sets the XO 3.0 apart from consumer tablets is that consumers won't actually have access to it. OLPC's ultimate goal is to one day provide every child in the world with a connected computer ...
There are going to be hundreds of tablets here at CES 2012, but the OLPC XO 3.0 isn’t just any tablet. It’s a tablet for children, and again, not just any children, but children living in some ...
OLPC’s XO 3.0 tablet for children of the developing world is finally ready. It will have a 8-inch display, a choice of Android or Sugar operating systems, and a outdoor readable display.
The XO 3.0 uses Marvell's ARM-based ARMADA PXA618 SoC, much like the new XO 1.75 laptop. Previous generations of OLPC hardware used x86-based AMD Geode chips that were less energy-efficient.
OLPC had already announced it was bringing along its XO-3 tablet to CES this coming week; now we know what the new education-focused slate will look like.… ...
The XO-3 will also use an Arm processor, but OLPC is ruling out loading multiple versions of Windows on the tablet, said Ed McNierney, OLPC’s CTO, by e-mail Thursday.
The organization’s first laptops, XO-1 and XO-1.75 are in the hands of 2.4 million children and teachers worldwide, according to OLPC. The XO-3 is the organization’s first tablet offering.
After announcing last month that the OLPC XO-2 concept had been abandoned in favor of a more straightforward slate-style XO-3 device, the One Laptop Per… ...
Almost a year ago One Laptop Per Child started showing off a tablet designed to offer low-cost touchscreen computing to students around the world. The plan was to sell the XO-3 tablet for as ...
For the One Laptop Per Child’s (OLPC) XO-3 tablet, thrift means not only a low price but also extreme efficiency harnessing meager sources of power. Just 4 percent of the communities that OLPC ...
Shipment of the XO-3 tablet has been delayed as One Laptop Per Child finalizes the design and seeks partners to make the product, said the non-profit organization's founder and chairman Nicholas ...