Re: XO-3 Announcement?

2012-01-11 Thread NoiseEHC
Secondly, and probably more importantly, neither of the aforementioned assumptions are really true with Android. I've yet to hear the argument that pupils absolutely need to use Android (or iOS for that matter) based devices today because that's what they gotta know tomorrow. Plus there

Re: XO-3 Announcement?

2012-01-10 Thread Richard A. Smith
On 01/07/2012 06:40 PM, Alan Eliasen wrote: I'm also curious about the power claims. What is its power consumption and charging requirements? Its still much too early to lay out exact claims for this. These are A1 prototypes. This is the stage where we start finding all the things

Re: XO-3 Announcement?

2012-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
I wonder how a tablet really fits the Xo mission beyond PR? The G1G1, while flawed in a few ways, made an attempt at least to put a programmable machine in the hands of third world children and empower them to be content creators. A tablet is inherently a content consumer device, not a creator

Re: XO-3 Announcement?

2012-01-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On 01/10/2012 06:28 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote: In case you missed my previous comment on 1.75 on devel@ the maximum runtime power draw of the 1.75 is 5W. (Not including the extra 5W you can draw from the USB port.) ... One difference between the XO-1.75 and XO-3 is that the XO-3 can _also_