Archive for April, 2008
Last March, Simon Trading Co. Ltd. introduced its new Wi-Fi-enabled digital photo frame.
The frame is compatible with Picasa and other photo-sharing sites, and stores up to 5,000 photographs in its 2G’s of storage.
The 8-inch TFT panel supports high resolution RGB 800 x 600 pixels.
You can send and receive photos and other email to or from any e-mail address from this wireless picture frame; it has a built-in address book!
You can also load pictures from almost any memory card or flash drive.
This Simon wireless digital picture frame has a built-in Li-polymer battery for 2 hours or more of photo display. You don’t have to keep it plugged in all the time, which means this wireless digital frame gives you more decorating options in a room.
The frame comes with a wireless remote; that makes it even easier to use!
The clock and date functions are also very nice. You can hang this frame on the wall – nice, with no cord hanging down! – or you can put it on your desk, bookcase, the back of the piano, or pretty much any place you wish.
You can upgrade this frame online.
Besides all of the above functions, this frame can also be used with the pretty picture frames you’ve already got! It mounts into most 8 x 6 photo frames quite easily.
What’s not to like?
Price and availability to be announced soon.
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There’s more news about the three awesome Sony digital picture frames that we featured here at FrameMedia last February!
According to the April 24 DIGITIMES:
“Lite-On IT has secured OEM orders for digital photo frames from Sony, with shipments to begin in the second quarter of 2008, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Online orders for three Sony digital photo frames for sale under its own brand S-Frame, the 7-inch DPF-D700, the 7-inch DPF-V700, and the 9-inch DPF-V900, opened in March 2008.
Succeeding in competition with other Taiwan-based makers including Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry), Lead Data and Qisda, Lite-On IT has landed OEM orders for the DPF-D700 and DPF-V700 models, the sources indicated.
Lite-On IT obtained OEM orders for digital photo frames from Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2007, with production outsourced to Taiwan-based maker Action Electronics, the sources noted. For Sony’s orders, however, Lite-On IT will . . . be responsible for production.”
How did we ever get along without a flash drive? I’ve got a very nice 2G flash drive, and I keep all of my tests, quizzes, worksheets, pictures, links, programs, and a lot of music on it. I’ve had it for almost two years, and already the technology has improved and the sizes are getting smaller and smaller.
This is the Jt Baby USB flash drive, and look how tiny it is! That’s a QUARTER there in the picture, and we all know how small a quarter is.
“Cute” is only one of its good qualities, however. The JtBaby USB flash drive is also a fantastic piece of technology that does what it says it will do, and does it well.
You won’t need a driver to use the jtBaby flash drive; I like that quality VERY much. Just plug it into your computer’s USB port, and the computer will detect and configure; you don’t have to do a thing. It’s compatible with Windows 98 and above, and it doubles as a boot device.
Efficiency anda technology aside for a moment, the Jt Baby is ADORABLE. It’s so tiny and light, you can use it as a cell phone charm, which would be VERY handy.
However, one of the first things that came to my mind was the fact that since the Jt Baby IS so very small, you could plug it into the USB port on your digital picture frame and it would be barely noticeable! You could put an awful lot of pictures into a 2G flash drive, and even more in the 4G.
The 2G green or purple Baby will set you back about $22.00, and the 4G orange, blue, or red cost $37.00.
Some interesting news is coming out of China-based Huawei Technologies: there are plans to launch Sim-card-enabled digital photo frames in Taiwan.
According to the DigiTimes, “Huawei has held talks with a number of telecom carriers in Taiwan, and some of the telecom operators may introduct SIM-enabled digital photo frames in Taiwan in the third quarter of this year. . . .”
Apparently, Huawei Technologies is currently in talks with several Taiwan companies and wants to launch SIM-enabled digital photo frames as soon as possible. Krunker.com tells us that “With mobile phones fast replacing home phones, it’s only natural to see more and more convergence among different consumer electronics. Combining a digital photo frame with mobile phone technology is similar to caller ID photos appearing on mobile phones themselves – except with much higher resolutions.”
Sounds like a great idea to me!
