…. and clock in at $75 by making use of portable DVD player screens. While Nick Neg recognizes that cell phones are very common, especially where the OLPC is targeted, he does not believe that the phone can be used as a learning tool.  - via xconomy

The book-like design of the device “comes from something we’ve learned over the past couple of years—that the book experience is key,” Negroponte said during his presentation this morning. “Some people have asked me why not just give kids cell phones? And in fact there will be 1.2 billion cell phones manufactured this year, and cell phones are of huge consequence in the developing world—but the cell phone is not a learning device. The next generation laptop should be a book.”

Part of me is thinking that NN has missed the point – the form of a book isn’t as important to the students – the learners… the book is more important for the teachers – the ones who don’t feel comfortable with things that are not book like.

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