On December 22, 2009, Nicholas Negroponte, owner of the OLPC, told Forbes magazine that his company is now working on a cheap tablet that will be launched in 2012.
Named OLPC XO-3, the tablet will measure 11 inches x 8.5 inches x 0.24 inches and it will be entirely made of plastic with a folded ring on one corner for easy carrying. Like the OLPC laptop, this device will also be durable and waterproof. The tablet will have an induction charging system and will consume “less than a Watt of power.” It will have an 8 GHz processor. The device will be priced at $75.
The OLPC XO-1 was supposed to be a $100 laptop but it cost $199. OLPC then announced to work on OLPC XO-2, a touchscreen device that would operate as a tablet, e-book reader and a laptop with a price of $75 but it scrapped the plan.
This time OLPC might fail but Negroponte has another plan. PC World reports:
OLPC hopes it won't have to develop the XO-3 alone, and that computer manufacturers will take the lead in developing the device. To that end, OLPC will work on the XO-3 as an open platform that any manufacturer can take over…
The biggest challenge for OLPC XO-3 is whether it will be able to provide such a complex piece of machinery at such a low price. Meanwhile, OLPC revealed its roadmap. In January 2010, OLPC will launch the OLPC XO-1.5 which will be priced at $200. The device will have a VIA processor and run on Linux or Windows. In 2011, OLPC XO 1.75 will be released sporting a Marvell ARM processor and would cost $150. Finally, OLPC XO-3 will come in 2012.
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