Samsung's Releases New WinCE Device: 46 Inch TFT Screen

[Jonathon Watkins]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_9604.html' target='_blank'>http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_9604.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Samsung's SyncMaster 460Pn is a 46" TFT screen designed for presentations and offered in Korea with Windows CE and the MagicNet portal. Despite the lack of information about this screen, we can specify that it packs a VIA Eden 400 Mhz CPU. The goal is to hook up this screen via an Ethernet port to your network and display your pictures, videos, files and even the Net."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/CEScreen.jpg" /><br /><br />I just love the fact that you never know what Windows CE will turn up in next. One minute it's in PDAs, then it's in cars, petrol pumps, cash registers and goodness knows what else. This impressive monitor is another example of the versatility of the OS that underpins our Pocket PCs and there's more details <a href="http://todaysppc.dreamwiz.com/zb41/zboard.php?id=early&amp;no=2678&amp;PHPSESSID=87f647b5b02fab092008b797a3acb826">here</a> (if you can speak Korean).

[stevelam]

Surely it would run slowly though, having a 400mhz prossecor drawing all of those pixels... unless it hade a nasty low resolution!!!

[Felix Torres]

So WinCE-based hardware is cheap enough to use as the on-screen interface on a display. Or maybe displays are getting sophisticated enough to need a full-blown OS driving their firmware? And an x86 CPU, no less... (I'm thinking the latter because of the portal feature; I'm guessing its a wireless display a la Mira).

Either way its interesting.

[Raphael Salgado]

I think we got it all wrong. This is the next generation of PDAs for mutant giant human beings. 8)

Bring it on, Micro$oft. Convergence is key!

[Jason Lee]

wow , i'd hate to see the pocket for that pc... 8O

[huangzhinong]

Can you guys tell me where I can find a case for this PDA? Thanks.

[davea0511]

Surely it would run slowly though, having a 400mhz prossecor drawing all of those pixels... unless it hade a nasty low resolution!!!

Resolution is 1366x768, which is similar to what you get with HDTV. HDTV resolution only looks great because people are used to watching TV on extremely low resolution screens - and the motion obfuscates that fact.

For full motion video this would be nice as I'm sure they have a dedicated MPEG decoder chip onboard. They have some new CE compatible display chips like the VGX from ADS that can do some pretty awesome video along side an XScale 400 MHz. Off-loading all the graphics from a slower processor onto a powerful video chip works great. Look at the XBox for instance.

[davea0511]

So WinCE-based hardware is cheap enough to use as the on-screen interface on a display. Or maybe displays are getting sophisticated enough to need a full-blown OS driving their firmware? And an x86 CPU, no less... (I'm thinking the latter because of the portal feature; I'm guessing its a wireless display a la Mira).

Either way its interesting.

What's interesting is the the VIA Eden is an X86 chip - which runs Windows XP, just like your desktop computer uses. Does that mean I can run Windows CE on my desktop?

[davea0511]

Since It's already so big, I don't see why they don't throw a 2.8GHz mobile Athlon in there. It runs cool enough that with the right setup you can cool it without a fan. It already has a PC in there, I can't imagine that it would make hardly any difference to make it a worthwhile one with full blown Windows XP.

[Felix Torres]

So WinCE-based hardware is cheap enough to use as the on-screen interface on a display. Or maybe displays are getting sophisticated enough to need a full-blown OS driving their firmware? And an x86 CPU, no less... (I'm thinking the latter because of the portal feature; I'm guessing its a wireless display a la Mira).

Either way its interesting.

What's interesting is the the VIA Eden is an X86 chip - which runs Windows XP, just like your desktop computer uses. Does that mean I can run Windows CE on my desktop?

Yup!
The CE SDK targets many cpu architectures and there are quite a few x86-based CE implementations out there.
One of the more notable is a home PC for the china market that uses a tv as a monitor and CE as the OS.

[davea0511]

So WinCE-based hardware is cheap enough to use as the on-screen interface on a display. Or maybe displays are getting sophisticated enough to need a full-blown OS driving their firmware? And an x86 CPU, no less... (I'm thinking the latter because of the portal feature; I'm guessing its a wireless display a la Mira).

Either way its interesting.

What's interesting is the the VIA Eden is an X86 chip - which runs Windows XP, just like your desktop computer uses. Does that mean I can run Windows CE on my desktop?

Yup!
The CE SDK targets many cpu architectures and there are quite a few x86-based CE implementations out there.
One of the more notable is a home PC for the china market that uses a tv as a monitor and CE as the OS.

So where do I get it? How can I install Windows CE on my desktop computer?

[Felix Torres]

So where do I get it? How can I install Windows CE on my desktop computer?

Well, we get our MS tools via MSDN Universal subscription, but you might want to start at microsoft.com.
Search around.
Not sure if the SDK is still free or not.
Just remember that its basically a do-it-yourself kit, a developer tool, not a commercial sku for novices.