Samsung Internet Digital Photo Frames
January 27, 2009 | Component, Electronics, Portable Storage, Samsung | Comments OffWith embedded technology of chumby, these DPFs access to a variety of chumby services and content, including more than 1000 applications or “widgets” in 30 different categories ranging from information and entertainment videos, music and sports, as well as tens of thousands of Internet radio, streaming online video clips and more. “Access to Web services and content at any time, anywhere, is the promise of the next generation of consumer electronics devices,” said Richard Yeh, marketing manager of Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. s System LSI Business. “In partnership with the new market leaders such as chumby, we can dynamically change how to view and share information in real time via the Internet.”
As the digital photo frame market includes wireless connectivity, the Samsung / chumby reference design offers developers to build innovative capacity DPF with interactive Web. Rather than a simple picture frame that displays only a limited number of photos from memory cards, the DPF can now become a device connected to the Internet where users can create and share content with friends and family to connect easily Internet-sharing services like photo Photobucket, Flickr and Facebook, the integration of sharing photos with audio, and enjoy photos and music with the rest of their favorite parts of the Internet. Users can view and share photos from multiple sources, including photo cards, memory cards, and the top Web sites for sharing photos in a slideshow, and use the touch screen to navigate through more a thousand chumby widgets.
“Our vision is to bring the screens connected to the Internet from everywhere, and digital photo frames are an ideal platform for delivery chumby technology and content to millions of homes,” said Stephen Tomlin, chief of direction, chumby. “Through our partnership with Samsung, we take the digital photo frame to a completely new category – bringing the best of the Internet chumby coupled with the ease of use and unique capabilities of digital photo frames .
To be in the connected home, a particulate filter requires high performance, with a multimedia processor optimized features that include interfaces for easy connection to wireless networks, an LCD, interfaces both in memory and memory card, an ADC for touch screen, graphics capabilities and support high-level operating systems. Samsung designed using high-performance, cost-effectiveness S3C6410 application processor, the new reference design relies on a network based on open source operating system Linux. [ via letsgodigital ]
