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OLPC To Sell 7-Inch XO Tablet In Wal-Mart

Posted by Soulskill on from the time-to-consider-a-rename dept.

angry tapir writes "One Laptop Per Child is back in the tablet race, announcing a new 7-inch tablet with the Android OS that will be sold commercially and include its learning software. The XO Tablet was announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas. OLPC will license the design to Sakar International, which will sell the tablet in the U.S. through Wal-Mart."

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  1. Re:Too little, too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If the tablet also has the dual-mode Pixel Qi display, that would be a notable differentiator.

    You misunderstand "the OLPC concept" if you think its time has passed.

  2. Re:One antimalarial course per child by Charliemopps · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been to Ethiopia. They go to school with Malaria. Like most diseases we see the horror stories. Most people with the disease are walking around with it and while they may have some debilitating symptoms, they aren't life threatening. It's when the person gets a second illness and becomes weak that Malaria gets deadly. I'm not sure of the total political situation there but I believe they are socialist. Their clinics are all free. The children walk in and they get treated for free. The medicine they use however is not totally effective. We took a girl there and they said that the treatment they had (and I have no idea what it was) kept the disease at bay, but it would eventually come back. According to the dr, so may people have the disease that it did little good to cure someone of it, because they'd just catch it again within a year. So instead, they buy this cheaper medication. The girl was getting adopted by an American family and according to the Dr the family could get a cure when they got back to America which they did.