HP sd828a1 8″ Wi-Fi Digital Frame Announced

Written on Jan 6, 2009 by Brian and filed under HP, News

HP has announced their first Wi-Fi enabled digital picture frame at CES, dubbed Smart Wi-Fi Display. In addition to Wi-Fi the HP sd828a1 features support for Internet Radio listening and can show pictures from online sources as well as receive them via MMS. 

The panel itself is an 8″ standard aspect ratio display with 800×600 resolution. Internally the frame offers speakers and 512MB of memory. They’ve also included a multi-card reader that supports CF, MS, SD, xD and MMC cards. There’s also a port to read content from USB drives.

In addition to the card readers, the frame will be able to grab images using the internet conenction from popular sharing sites like Facebook, Myspace, Snapsh, Photobucket, Flickr, and Picasa. The frame will monitor these sites and alert you when photos have been updated. HP also mentions support to receive photos via MMS, but doesn’t provide details as to how it works. 

On the multi-media side the sd828a1 can play music and movies. On the music side it supports MP3, WAV and WMA. For video it supports MPEG1, MPEG4 and Motion JPEG. The frame also works with Internet Radio broadcasts and Internet gadgets. It remains to be seen how well this works and how deep the gadget universe for this frame is.

As part of this announcement, HP also launched a digital picture frame keychain, but they did not include a picture or any specs. We’ll try to learn more when the CES show floor opens later this week.

The 8″ Smart Wi-Fi Display is HP’s most full-featured digital frame to date. Hopefully they’ve included an easy-to-use interface to support all of these new features. It will be available this Spring for $179, the keychain will retail for $24.99.

HP sd828a1 Specs

• 8″ display
• Standard aspect ratio, 800×600 pixels
• Integrated Wi-Fi
• 512MB internal memory
• CF, MMC, MS, SD, xD and USB 
• Video and Audio playback
• Support for online photo sources, Internet radio, Gadgets and MMS photos