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Firefly-RK3288 is a new development board which powered by RK3288 Cortex A17 processor of Rockchip. It broadens the eyes of traditional development board and aims to all user community. Rockchip is famous in the pad,cellphone and TV-BOX industry. It has a good reputation in the consumer electronics. As a high-performance platform , Firefly join in the Raspberry pi and become one of the opening resource hardware members. It suppose to provide a platform for those people who are creativity to fly their dream. I was lucky to have a look before Firefly come to the market. Now ,let’s take a look on the Firefly. Packaging with a brief case The logo was printed on the front of the case
The specs and interface description are printed on the back of the case:
The list of accessories and main board : Firefly-RK3288 main board ×1,antenna×1,power line ×1,acrylic rack ×1,screw ×1
You can extend a hard disk at the lower chassis:
Let’s take a look at the parameters:
12 expend interfaces can satisfy the needs of your development:
Performance of Antutu: 41585 scores comprehensively
It reach 41585！
Only next to HTC One ,Xiao MI,Samsung GALAXY S5 and Note3:
With the powerful graphics processing ability of Mali-T764 GPU ,Firefly has an excellent performance on video decoding.
we make a video test on Friefly.It’s fluently while playing the 4K video.
Play games performance: “Asphalt 8：Airborne” is definitely a big challenge for GPU. Let’s take a look at it’s performance,that seems a piece of cake for Firefly to run this game.
http://developer.t-firefly.com/thread-211-1-1.html
TV BOX performance: The official framework has already included a TV launcher,you can use the Firefly as a TV box via remote control.
Ubuntu performance: Once you connect the Firefly to a display via VGA or HDMI,the Firefly will become a microcomputer. It supported by Ubuntu14.04. Then you can useFirefly for entertainment or work.
However,as a development board,one of the most important thing is that after-sale service. There must be supported strongly by the company or the community. For Firefly-RK3288,the developers can get the support from the wiki and forum on their official website.
The last one thing,with the RK3288,Firefly have make many breakthroughes on the technology. | 
