XO-3: Cheapest Tablet PC Will Be Available In 2012

The presence of the cheap tablet PC that called XO-3 seems became a reality. Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the OLPC said that the prototype will be ready in the end of this year. OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a nonprofit organization that established to provide affordable educational facilities for children in developing countries. Not only that, OLPC also provides content and specifically software that designed for children’s learning media.

OLPC has agreement with Marvell’s Moby Technology as chip maker which has been working hard for more than two years to design the touch-screen tablet PC. So it can be said, OLPC tablet is not based on the first concept of X0-3. Early concepts X0-3 is a tablet PC that 100% made from semi-plastic, can not be broken, more thin than the iPhone and support multitouch, and it is sold at affordable prices, about $75 USD. The information from Gizmodo said, the Moby platform does not support HDMI out, USB, integrated camera, full 1080p HD encode / decode as well as support for Flash, Android, WinMo, and Linux. The processor also has not been upgraded from 1GHz up to 8 GHz (as the promise).

Negroponte also said that the tablet PC device in accordance with the original concept X0-3 will be presented at CES, in January 2011 and will be available in the year 2012 at a price below $ 100.