Well this is definitely a nice gadget for urban kids but it doesn't make much sense in a rural background. First of all, the memory space is too less (256 MB plus 1 GB flash drive) and also there is no hard drive, no optical media, no floppy drives. So it will hardly be of any use to a teenager. So it essentially restricts the target customers to pre teen kinds. Secondly $100 price tag is just a myth. The Windows version costs a lot more (How many pre teen kids would be comformatble with a KDE or GNOME GUI ?). Practically the only purpose it serves is to provide a low-priced device for browsing webpages. But of what use would it be to a kid in a rural area where there is no connectivity ?