Articles about XO 3 tablet

Bear with me for one more educational product for today. This time is a very interesting OLPC XO 3 tablet, which we've talked about two years ago. OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child, and is an old project that was meant to bring a $100 or less computer to each child on this planet, so clearly it's a product with specifics that take into account problems in the underdeveloped countries.You might think this is junk, but just read the entire article and especially watch the hands on video at ...

Chip-maker Marvell has granted One Laptop Per Child Foundation a $5.6 million grant so the latter can start developing cheap tablets running the Marvell processors.According to Xconomy, OLPC decided to trash plans for an e-book-looking laptop in order to concentrate in designing tablets. The tablet funded by Marvell will be called XO 3. While Marvell has long been a corporate sponsor for the OLPC Foundation, it is with this grant that they become part of the development process.OLPC and ...

All of us heard about OLPC projects: from the 100 bucks laptop  (XO model) which was a failure, because it never has been anywhere near $100, to the dual-touchscreen XO-2, which the organization abandoned in November 2009. Both these projects were nothing compared with the new enthusiastic concept: an absurdly thin tablet PC slated for 2012, renders of which OLPC revealed these days.They aim to make it from a semi-flexible plastic, extremely durable and waterproof. Having half the thickness...