Review: HP df300 Portable Digital Picture Frame
Written on Nov 12, 2008 by Brian and filed under Featured, HP, Reviews
The HP df300 fills a spot in the recently popular portable digital picture frame market. The 3.5” frame comes with a leather carrying case and a battery that gives you about 2 hours of usage to show off your pictures. Even though the main feature is portability, this little frame can surely find a spot on a desk or nook about the house and is priced well for gift giving.
FrameChannel Pushing Out More Ads to Digital Frames
Written on Nov 4, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameChannel, News
FrameChannel is often the free service bundled with Internet-enabled digital picture frames to display free content like news stories, stock quotes and the like. While it’s free, we’ve never been very big on the service because the management interface is not very good and it laced with advertisements. It appears that the advertisements may be picking up as FrameChannel tries to leverage the “4th screen” in your home.
FrameChannel July Update - Soccer & Snapple Facts Channels, NFL Coming Soon
Written on Aug 29, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameChannel, News
FrameChannel has been busy, as they continue to bolster their content offering for Internet-enabled digital picture frames. They’ve recently launched seven soccer league channels, more financial news, and a channel dedicated to those quirky facts found on the lids of Snapple. They’ve also expanded their Spanish language offerings.
Samsung Announces the SPF-85H, SPF-85V, SPF-105P and SPF-105V
Written on Aug 28, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameChannel, FrameIt, News, Samsung
Samsung has refreshed their line of digital picture frames, with two 8″ models (SPF-85H, SPF-85V) and two 10.2″ models (SPF-105P, SPF-105V). One of each size comes with wireless, and they each offer a somewhat unique feature set, including things like auto shutoff, high resolution displays and a function to serve as a secondary computer monitor.
Windows Live FrameIt Digital Frame Content Service Released in Beta
Written on Aug 7, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameChannel, FrameIt
Microsoft has recently released a free content service for digital picture frames called FrameIt. FrameIt takes a clear shot at the more established FrameChannel service, which is embedded with many Internet-enabled frames, like the D-Link DSM-210 that we just reviewed.
FrameChannel Adds Stock Quotes, Getty Images
Written on Aug 4, 2008 by Brian and filed under FrameChannel, News
FrameChannel, which offers dynamic, web-based content for digital picture frames, has broadened their offering by adding a stock quote and Getty images channels.