Review: GiiNii Artforme 7 inch Digital Picture Frame
Written on Jan 18, 2010 by Malcolm Reynolds and filed under Featured, GiiNii, Reviews
One of the side effects to reviewing many different digital picture frames is that I start to expect more and more from a typical picture frame. The latest digital media frames handle photos, video, music, and stream content via Wi-Fi. That’s why I was amazed to see the affordable GiiNii ArtForme Digital Picture Frame (model GN-705W) keeps things surprisingly simple. This picture frame is just a picture frame … nothing more and nothing less.
Pandigital Photo Mail Frame Backed by AT&T
Written on Jan 6, 2010 by Brian and filed under News, Pandigital
Pandigital has released a new frame at CES, the Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame . The party trick this frame offers is that it uses the AT&T network to receive photos, so no home networking is needed.
Sherwood iNet 2.0 Digital Frame iPod Speaker Dock Combo Announced
Written on Jan 4, 2010 by Brian and filed under News
Sherwood has used CES to announce an interesting iPod speaker dock, Internet radio and digital frame combo unit, the iNet 2.0. The 8″ display also features a wired or wireless Internet connection, alarm function and 1GB of internal storage.
HP DreamScreen Firmware Updated (v1.5.2)
Written on Nov 5, 2009 by Brian and filed under HP, News
HP has released their third major firmware update for the DreamScreen line of digital screens. They’ve also updated the desktop client, which is used to help manage account info for Pandora and the other third party services, as well as configuration for wireless photo sharing and uploading. Major highlights include updates to Pandora, and file compression to allow users to fit more pictures on the internal storage.
eStarling WPF-588 WiFi Digital Picture Frame Released
Written on Nov 4, 2009 by Brian and filed under News, eStarling
eStarling has released a new WiFi enabled digital picture frame that features several goodies like a 10.2″ touch input panel and the ability to receive photos via Gmail address, Facebook, Picasa and Flickr. The WPF-588 is shipping now for $249.99.
Motorola Announces Family of Digital Frames for the UK
Written on Oct 30, 2009 by Brian and filed under News
Motorola has announced five new digital picture frames for the UK market, the highlight being the LS1000W. The 10.4″ frame features WiFi, 800×600 pixel resolution and content services from FrameChannel. But that’s about it and with only 512MB of internal memory, the LS1000W looks like an under-performer for the £199.99 ($330) retail price.
Sony DPP-F700 Digital Frame with Photo Printer Announced
Written on Oct 22, 2009 by Brian and filed under News, Sony
In late September Sony released the Sony DPP-F700 in Japan. Sony has announced today that we’ll be seeing the digital frame, photo printer combo unit in the US come January. For $200 user will get a high resolution 7″ frame with a printer in the back that can create 4×6 prints in 45 seconds.
HP DreamScreen Firmware Updated (v1.2.5)
Written on Sep 21, 2009 by Brian and filed under HP, News
True to its word, HP pushed out an update to the DreamScreen that does quite a bit of updating to the Pandora application. Pandora now lets users create a new account, truly eliminating the need for a PC for this application. Users can also now create new stations and delete stations. It also appears the thumbs up/down bug where the images were not being displayed has now been resolved.
Sony ICF-CL75iP Digital Picture Frame-Clock-iPod Dock Revealed
Written on Sep 3, 2009 by Brian and filed under News, Sony
Sony has really created an interesting mash-up here of tech toys. The ICF-CL75iP is a combination unit that features an iPod dock with speakers, digital photo frame, alarm clock and FM radio. Sony as not issued an official press release on the unit yet, but a cached Sony Style page shows it being listed for $150 and coming soon.
Mintpass Frame Concept Features Two Built-In Digital Cameras
Written on Aug 28, 2009 by Brian and filed under News
We don’t spend a lot of time on this site talking about conceptual designs. There aremany interesting digital picture frame concepts out there, but very few of these features ever come to market. There is something interesting though about this concept from Mintpass. While not for everyone, the 7″ frame does the usual stuff, but it also has dual embedded digital cameras from taking pictures on the fly.
Sungale Desk Lamp Digital Frame Combo Announced
Written on Aug 11, 2009 by Brian and filed under News, Sungale
So you want a desk lamp and a digital picture frame on your desk but don’t have room for both. Enter the Sungale CD358LD desk lamp. In addition to an energy efficient LED lamp, you also get a 3.5″ digital picture frame with built-in audio/video playback and clock/calendar/alarm functions. The frame even comes with 512MB of internal memory and SD, MMC, and MS multi-card reader.