$75 tablet from One Laptop Per Child

Someday, paper existence at school might be replaced by a tablet. Many tablet vendors are now building new tablet with very competitive price ever. One of the leading breakthroughs is One Laptop Per Child which has built a very cheap tablet dedicated to children in developing countries.

This tablet called XO-3 is gonna be 8.5 inches wide and will be approximately priced at $75. With half of iPhone thickness, it will feature a touchscreen display with a folding ring on one corner for easier handling. Nevertheless, a camera is also embedded at the rear and this XO-3 has visual keyboard for typing. To make it low-price, the charging system will adapt the Palm Pre phone by placing it on the Touchstone or by mini USB portable charger means no default charger included.

This XO-3 from OLPC is planed to be launched in January of 2010 while XO series started at $200 for XO-1.5 that uses a VIA CPU, meanwhile the pioneer model uses AMD version which provides four times the DRAM and Flash memory which gives double speed of access. The XO-1.75 will feature rubber bumpers on its casing and an 8.9-inch touchscreen display with a Marvell ARM processor that enables twice the speed at a quarter of power usage.

via: gadget