Brookstone digital picture frame…
I was at our local Brookstone store today and bought this really neat digital picture frame for $50. It matches the look of my iMac quite nicely. Besides that, it has a very nice 3 inch LCD rivaling the quality of the LCD in my iMac, and it will display pictures and movies from MMC/SD and MemoryStick cards.
Of course, like everything else I buy, I couldn’t resist cracking it open to see what kind of stuff is in it. After struggling with the white bezel around the LCD that was double sided taped on, I was able to gain access to the screws to disassemble the frame. Inside, there’s very few chips. There appears to be only a CPU chip, a SDRAM chip, and maybe a flash chip. The CPU seems to be an x86 like chip built by SQ called the SQ812B. The SDRAM chip is S6416AJTA. And, unfortunately, I can’t determine what the possible flash chip is as half the chip’s markings are missing. There’s also a USB port that registers as a mass storage device. If there’s a way to load custom software on this picture frame, it could be quite a nice little device.
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