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After the OLPC XO-1 laptop, the One Laptop Per Child foundation is setting in motion plans to create a working $100 tablet for CES 2011. Marvell Technologies announced on Thursday that it will partner with the foundation to create the hardware for the proposed tablet, currently named the XO-3.
Vague details and product renderings of the $100 (£69) XO-3 tablet first surfaced last December. More concrete specifications 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 One Laptop Per Child (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 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.
For more on this story, see Marvell backs ambitious $100 OLPC tablet on CNET News.
The OLPC XO-3 is a tablet PC designed for children in developing nations. Photo credit: OLPC
