Toshiba Announces 10″ & 8″ WiFi Digital Picture Frames

Written on Jul 20, 2009 by Brian and filed under News, Toshiba

Toshiba is well-known in Europe for their digital frames, but in the US they’ve been quiet, until now. Toshiba has just announced two new digital picture frames for the US market and the good news is, they’re full-featured and look pretty sharp too. The two models are 10″ and 8″ varieties, the latter coming in white or black. Both offer WiFi and access to content via FrameChannel.

Toshiba is pitching the FrameChannel integration aggressively, noting all of the content and social networking possibilities. True, users can access FrameChannl to integrate with sites like Flickr, Photobucket, and Facebook. But the real trick is how easy is the frame to use and how does it look? We’ll have to wait for our review unit to see how the interface works, but from a design perspective the new DMF102XKU and DMF82XKU look pretty sharp.

Toshiba has been all about the high-gloss design in their consumer electronics of late and the new set of digital frames is no different. The 8″ model pictured above (DMF82XKU) and the 10″ model (DMF102XKU) both feature black frames and acrylic front with reflective rim. The 8″ model will also come with a while frame (DMF82XWU).

While Toshiba was a little coy about specs in the press release it’s fair to assume there’s a multi-card reader and at least 1GB of RAM to go with the “high resolution” display. The frames also feature an internal tilt senor and calendar/clock functions.

All three Toshiba digital frames will be available in August. The 8″ models will retail for $179.99 and the 10″ $229.99.

Update – Toshiba has confirmed 1GB of internal memory and an 800×480 pixel widescreen.

Update – 12/17/09 – Toshiba DMF82XKU Review Posted

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