Ok, so what happened to the simputer? Apparently the project is considered a failure after releasing only thousands of the devices.

Tack onto that the failure of XO/OLPC, and you have all these successive efforts to get cheap computing devices in the hands of children, hoping like magic, the device will herald a transformation of education in rural villages.

Will an android tablet succeed where the others failed? Unless we know why the other projects failed, I don't see why this one would succeed.