Digital Photo Frame

[gp32rich]

I went and bought one of these.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw...&sku=966907
The screen is okay if a little flickery, but for £30 it's not so bad

I wondered what was inside so I opened it up ... four slabs of black logic™...
Eon EN29LV800 Flash ROM 2Mx8 / 1Mx16
YHTech YH57D641642 SDRAM 2Mx8 / 1Mx16
Himax HX8817 LCD Driver
Haier HiPatriot Hi1017

Here's the only info I found for the Haier chip ...

Embeddd JPEG,MP3hardware decoder;Supporting audio and video play imultaneousy;lnterated Ethernet interface and hard-ware TCP/IPprotocol stack;Hih-speed data down-loading can be realized;With SD/MMC/CIF interface and 2 USB ports;Em-bedded 6502 instruction simulator which enables running of Nintendo 8 bit games;Several types o knowledge learning softwaresuch as mathspoem,Enlish etc.,and entertain-ment games,such as Fighting the Landlord playing-cad,Flying chess etc.are embedded; 2 channels of DB9 interface for joy sticks; Video output of CVBS, S-Video, YcbCr, RGB and BT656 interface.

Let me get this straight.
A chip with JPEG & MP3 decoding;
Ethernet, USB, CF/SD/MMC controller;
A NES emulator. With joystick input

Just a pity that for £30 you get a crippled device that 'only' shows jpegs
Ah well. Guess it'll make a reasonable birthday present

 

[nubie]

Nuts, I hate stuff like that, does it really compromise anything to make those features available?

I couldn't find a datasheet, but then again I couldn't spend $60 US for that (heck that is almost as much as a Core2 D201GLY2!! http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=d201gly2 ).