"The XO-1 was really designed as if we were Apple, " Nicholas Negroponte says in the interview.
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Even the OLPC XO-3 plans to eschew the clickity keyboard in favor of a touchscreen version.
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The new XO-4 Touch is more than just a device, it's a new way of facilitating learning.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
We'll try and get it out there using the exact opposite approach that we did with the XO-1.
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Part laptop, part tablet, the XO-4 Touch will represent a huge leap forward in what OLPC can offer.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
The XO-4 Touch will combine the XO's existing laptop functionality and sunlight-usable display with a full-fledged tablet mode.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
While the XO-4 Touch's launch date and pricing are yet to be confirmed, the release is expected in Q1 in 2013.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
As its development name, the "XO-4 Touch" suggests, the device will come equipped with an optical multi-touch capable screen from Neonode.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
Although Linux-based, the XO-1's operating system appears to have been very much simplified, with menu bars and icons being kept to a bare minimum.
Well, our interest was certainly piqued by that OLPC XO-2 mockup that surfaced yesterday, and now the Guardian is saying that the hardware development will take place open source.
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While we saw the OLPC XO-1's OS emulation earlier this week, not everyone (including us) took the time to set up the necessary software needed in order to run it.
The YouTube video shows some of the various standard applications that come with the XO-1: Firefox, an unnamed instant messaging program, a variant of Abiword (word processing), and an application called eToys that looks like a combination of traditional computer games (such as Chinese Checkers) combined with something resembling the children's art program Kid Pix.
All of these features will help take the new, dual-function XO to a new level.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
While maintaining our XO's award-winning design from Yves Behar's FuseProject, we have combined features of both devices to deliver dual benefits.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
In Forbes.com's tests, the XO's wi-fi connection was weak and finicky.
To save power, for instance, the XO's liquid-crystal display (the biggest consumer of juice in a laptop) can be flipped from backlit colour to self-reflecting monochrome.
At first glance, PeeWee PC's Pivot Tablet Laptop is a formidable rival to the long-standing OLPC XO.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple, including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
The XO is packed with hyper-designed creativity worthy of Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ), including a unique software environment that lets kids collaborate in real time on applications ranging from a simple programming simulation to music-making programs (three come pre-installed) and even an application for using sonar to pinpoint the computer's distance from other nearby XOs.
Every element of the XO's software is open-source and malleable: Its creators hope that kids in Mongolia and Peru will someday program their own applications for the devices and even modify its source code to improve its operating system.
But for all that high-minded ambition, the XO falls flat in a key area: the Web.
But Intel has been working on chips for the XO and had planned to unveil an Intel-powered OLPC laptop at the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas.
Daniel Akerson , a former president of MCI --now part of WorldCom--who is the current chairman of XO Communications , and Gary Forsee , vice chairman of BellSouth , have been mentioned, though it's not clear that either wants the job.
Like other OLPC devices, the XO 3.0 is customizable to customer needs -- so you can get the CPU clocked at 800Mhz or 1GHz, a 1500 - 1800 mAh battery, and your choice of a Pixel Qi or standard LCD display.
With their impressive history with mobile devices, Neonode has developed energy-efficient technology that is ideal for the XO.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
Once that rural Indian nine-year-old gets a peak at YouTube, the XO doesn't stand a chance.
We last heard from our friends at OLPC a mere 10 days ago, when the non-profit's latest computer moniker changed from 2B1 to XO.
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If the ingenuity of the XO's hardware is impressive, the machine's software is truly ground-breaking.
Following an announcement last week from Neonode, One Laptop Per Child ("OLPC"), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression, confirmed today that an exciting new and transformative version of the XO device is currently in development.
ENGADGET: One Laptop Per Child's XO-4 Touch 'expected' to be released in Q1 2013
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