One Laptop Per Child still hasn’t revealed any pricing details about that US-bound XO Tablet, but today the company’s announcing some of the retail shelves we can expect its new child-friendly device to hit. For starters, the XO Tablet will be available at ‘select’ Walmart brick-and-mortar stores and website in the US this year, however OLPC wasn’t quite clear about when exactly that’s going to be — we tried asking the company ourselves, but we were told no information could be given at the time. Furthermore, OLPC said it has struck a deal with Sakar International, which gives the latter exclusives rights “to sell the XO Tablet to leading US retailers for both in-store and online sales.” Only time will tell how many retailers will join Wally on offering the learning device, but one of the world’s largest retailers certainly isn’t a bad place to start.
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