The new crop of digital photo frames
- February 7th, 2008
- 3 Comments
Mr. Pogue at the Times today has a little roundup of digital photo picture frames. He tries out the eMotion, Parrot DF7220, Kodak EasyShare EX1011, eStarling Digital Wireless, Momento 100, PanDigital WiFi Picture Frame and SmartParts SP8PRT.
The main thesis here is that all of those frames are much improved over previous years’ incarnations. For the most part, resolutions are no longer lousy and you’ll find more than one way to send pictures to them, be it with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a USB Flash drive or memory card. Pogue was particularly impressed with the Kodak dealie (pictured)—you can set up a photo album on Kodak’s Web site and the frame will automatically grab them via Wi-Fi. He also sees the SmartParts as doing well, primarily because it incorporates a printer. That way, you can stuff your precious memories in your wallet, only to be taken out at reunions and the like.
Prices for these frames have come down, too, with most falling within a $150-$250 price range. I wonder, though, that if picture frames are about decoration as much as anything how many people can afford to line their walls with the digital ones. My house growing up had dozens of picture frames and I’m pretty sure they didn’t all cost $150 a pop.
A New Generation of Digital Picture Frames [New York Times]
Keith (Who am I?)
6 months ago
I thought the whole point of a Digital Photo Frame was that instead of needing loads of frame all around your house to display all your photos, you only needed 1 digital frame that would display all your photos on a slide show.
So you wouldn’t need dozens at $150 a go, just one.
Trae Dorn (Who am I?)
6 months ago
I just want to know who keeps buying these damned Digital Picture frames. I mean, I’ve never met someone who actually owned one - but they keep making them. That means some idiot keeps buying them for this many new models to be produced.
I bet it’s one guy. One guy with a lot of money. He probably makes a pile of them and sleeps on them — all displaying various pictures of himself. He then builds little forts out of them, making each one display a picture of bricks. His kitchen is probably wall papered with them even.
This I think is true.
And it’s probably Paul Allen.
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