We’ve reviewed a number of digital picture frames here at CrunchGear, and they each strive to fit a slightly different niche. Isabella’s new Vizit Frame brings some interesting new features to this crowded space. It sports a gorgeous 10.4″ touchscreen, 3G wireless connectivity, and the ability to send pictures from the frame to someone’s email address. It’s probably the best digital picture frame I’ve reviewed yet, but still has a couple rough spots. → Read More
So you’ve got a company without an all-that-recognizable name, and you really want to ramp it up. What do you do? Well, if you’re jWIN you buy some street cred by striking up a deal with Polaroid, making your products have a connection with a legacy of creativity and innovation that you had nothing to do with. → Read More
I’d rather listen to nails on a chalkboard all day than review a digital picture frame. What’s the big deal with these things? It’s probably something I’d buy for my parents. That’s how I used to feel about digital picture frames until I got my mitts on the 7-inch Kaleido R7 from Ipevo. The Wi-Fi-enabled frame not only streams my personal photos from my Mac/PC, but I can also stream custom feeds from the likes of Flickr or Picasa, and get my news fix with RSS feed streaming. It also rotates from landscape to portrait mode. → Read More
OK, fellas, you know what tomorrow is and if you’re like me then you probably haven’t even thought about a gift for the lil lady yet. Luckily there’s always some gadget pusher out there with a worthwhile last minute gift idea. This time around it’s SmartParts and their 1.5-inch digital picture frame keychain. → Read More
Available at Amazon for the low, low price of $1,000, the Kodak OLED 7.6-Inch Wireless Digital Frame sports a widescreen 800×480 resolution, 2GB of internal storage, and WiFi connectivity to Flickr or Kodak’s Gallery service. Just the thing you need to show off pictures of your dog! → Read More
Digital picture frames aren’t exactly the hottest gadget item anymore, but maybe iriver can somewhat breath new life in the totally overproduced niche item. The 7-inch Framee-L has a bit of understated art deco look, while at the same time sport’n the standard fare of digiframe features. It has a 720 x 480 resolution display, 1GB of internal memory, a full array of memory card slots, a USB port, and can handle just about every video file. Japanese peeps can get their hands on the frame starting on December 20t at an estimated price of 17,800 yen ($198). AV Watch via SG → Read More
The latest frames from iGala utlize WiFi and Microsoft’s FrameIt service for some spiffy features. The connection associates the frame with Windows Live, Flick, and Gmail in a unique twist. No, you can’t check your email here but rather the frame can get its own email address so people can simple email that address photos to have them show up on the frame. Neat. Plus, the Internet connection provides news, traffic, and weather info. Oh, yeah, it can display photos too on it’s 8-inch 800×600 LCD touchscreen display. $239 and available now. via DigitalPictureFrameReview → Read More
Rather than bore you with words, I chose to do a video review for the Smartparts digital frame mashup. It poops out 4×6 glossy photos and handles a variety of memory cards. The UI is simple to navigate and there isn’t a whole lot to it, so it’s perfect for anyone with any sort of tech knowledge. One ink cartridge is good for 36 prints and refills cost $20. Swapping ink cartridges was easy and took less than a minute. Photo quality is decent and the 800×600 LCD displays photos quite nicely. The only downside to these mashups is that it takes up a lot of space due to the printer and it weighs a ton. The SP8PRT retails for $279 and is available now. But I’d save your money. → Read More
I’ve never really wanted a digital photo frame, but their feature sets are starting to get to the point where I can understand that someone sane might want one. These Sony ones are certainly of a high quality, at 7″ or 9″ and 800×480 resolution with 512MB of storage in the big one and 256MB in the small one. They both also sport Bluetooth connectivity so you can shoot your photos right over from your mobile or Bluetooth-able camera. And the thing that might actually make them worthwhile is the HDMI-out through which you can view your photos on your HDTV. Now you can bore your friends and family in vibrant, razor-sharp 1080p! Sony Announces Bluetooth Digital Photo Frames with HDMI Ports [Gearlog] → Read More
To some, Gigantor is a huge remote-controlled robot that fights crime for some reason. To others, Gigantor is a giant digital photo frame that displays images of you and your loved ones. I’m here today to talk about the second Gigantor. ThinkGeek.com is selling a 15-inch cherry wood digital photo frame for $249.99, which I believe is a fair price for an item of this size. Photos are displayed at 1024×768 resolution in JPEG or BMP formats (up to 12-megapixel) and the frame can handle MPEG-1, -2, or -4 movie files and MP3 audio files. You can use a variety of memory card formats and control slideshows, music, and videos with the included remote. 15" Gigantor Digital Photo Frame [ThinkGeek.com] → Read More
No one actually buys a digital picture frame for themselves, only as gifts. Case in point, this new one from Smartparts (which I’ve been reading as smartpaNTS for some time now), which features a comparatively large 15-inch LCD, considering most top off at 10 inches. The company is pitching the frame as the “King-Sized Digital Photo Frame for Dad” for Father’s Day. Because, you know, anything smaller would be emasculating and result in ridicule from friends and family. The frame, made with solid birch, has a 24-bit display with a resolution of 1,024×768 and shows 16.7 million colors (seriously, that’s a decent laptop screen). There’s 256MB of flash memory built in, which also acts as an MP3 player using the built-in speakers. A card reader lets you go directly from camera to frame letting you shaft your computer from the entire experience and a wireless remote lets you quickly bypass any people you’d rather not see. There was no pricing, yet, but Smartparts’ 10.4-inch frames sell for around $180, so expect this to be more than $200. Personally, I think it’s a waste of a perfectly good 15-inch LCD, but what do I know? I’m dead inside and have no children. → Read More
