Over on one of FrameMedia’s other websites, Information Appliance, Emily has written a great article about the new FrameChannel-compatible D-Link DIR-685 router:
OhGizmo! just reviewed the new D-Link DIR-685 router. The router has a 3.2″ LCD screen and is FrameChannel compatible!
The router earned a great review for being easy to set up, very fast, good looking, and having lots of integrated options for storage and remote content access.
The author had great things to say about FrameChannel, too:
“You can customize the display options for every single thing you want to include, from the time of day that each thing shows up, to the duration that it shows up for, to the priority that it has compared to the rest of your stuff. So for example, you can have traffic and weather and news headlines show up in the morning, followed by RSS feed items in the afternoon, and pics from Flickr in the evening. Generally I find services like this to be bloated and cumbersome, but FrameChannel is refreshingly simple and full featured. You can even set how often your router updates its FrameChannel content, which is a nice touch.”
Read the full review on OhGizmo!
Glen VanLand, who manages DigitalSmartFrames.com, has written an excellent article about several of the larger Portable USA wireless/digital photo frames:
If you own a digital photo frame, either because you decided to buy one to replace your traditional frames, or because you got one as a gift, it’s probably a 5-inch, 7-inch, or 8-inch digital picture frame. These are the popular sizes in digital frames that have been also affordable. But like all consumer electronics, prices have steadily come down as quality has increased, and Portable USA has staked its future on a larger set of digital frames, 10-inch, 12-inch, and even a beautiful 15-inch frame. These stunning digital LCD frames from Portable in larger sizes can be real eye catchers that light up a room.
The most popular digital picture frame from Portable USA is the PU-10W 10-inch digital frame, which represents all the things that make this line of frames great. The large 10.4″ screen is brilliantly clear and beautiful. It’s hard to realize how much larger a 10-inch frame is than a 7-inch frame until you actually see your pictures on the extra LCD real estate (it’s about 40% more screen area). It looks beautiful displaying your personal digital pictures. The frame is real wood in a cherry finish with a black matting which gives it a contemporary look, when combined with the crisp screen looks great in any room. The PU-10W digital picture frame like many Portable USA frames has ports for 2 memory cards which are compatible with most memory types, and also has 128 MB of internal memory to store a good number of digital pictures directly on the frame.
Portable doesn’t stop with its PU-10W 10-inch frame, it’s only the beginning. The Portable USA PU12-WB 12.1″ takes it another step with an even larger crystal clear digital display frame. Not only is this frame bigger but has twice as much memory – 256 MB, which generally means it can store about 1000 digital pictures – and has another popular feature with recent digital frames: wireless. While you can always transfer photos from your camera or computer to your Portable USA frame using memory cards, the Bluetooth wireless feature makes it even simpler. With a wireless digital frame like the PU12-WB wireless digital frame, as now you can keep fresh content on your frame in real time from your PC or cell phone. Constantly streaming pictures via Bluetooth on a large 12.1″ wireless digital LCD frame makes for a great device and a real winner from Portable USA.
If size is what you are really after in your digital photo frame, then consider Portable’s largest digital frame, the 15″ PU-15WB digital photo frame. This one is more elegant than the others, a cherry wood frame with a more traditional style, and all the features mentioned with the previous models, just bigger! The resolution of the screen is 1024 x 768, higher than smaller frames so the quality of the picture is outstanding even in the larger size. You can take advantage of the various slide show features that come with the frame, and keep in mind these frames from Portable all display video and audio media as well (internal speakers), so custom slideshows work great.
Portable USA has also kept up with key features that other leaders in digital frames like Kodak and Smartparts have offered as well. Many of the Portable USA frames come with remote controls, support direct connection to your PC via USB cable, and these frames all display in 4:3 aspect ratio so you don’t have to worry about black stripes on the edges of your pictures. Viewing angles are great, which helps in larger rooms, and you either display your frame on a tabletop with a stand or easily hang it in either portrait or landscape. Some even come with calendar and alarm functions.
So if you are shopping for a digital picture frame, there are many choices from a lot of names you probably recognize. However you should consider Portable USA digital photo frames, especially if you are looking for a frame in a larger size.
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Kogan’s new 8-inch LCD high resolution (800 x 600) wireless digital picture frame allows you to send your pictures to almost any social media network!
According to Kogan founder Ruslan Kogan, “Social Networking has become extremely popular. With the release of the Kogan Wi-Fi Wireless digital Photo Frame we have looked to combine photo sharing capabilities of social network websites and the digital photo frame. The world of technology is about immediacy and through being able to rapidly upload photos to your digital photo frame, gives you the opportunity to view the latest photos of your family and friends straight away.”
Customers will also be able to upload digital pictures via email with the new Kogan frame, for each frame has its own email address.
Besides being able to get pictures from Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, and other social media sites, you can also manage your images with Kogan’s free web-hosted service for the central management of your pictures.
If you have an iPhone, you can download the FREE SeeFrame app from Kogan’s App Store, install, and send photos directly from your iPhone!
If several family members or friends have the Kogan wireless frame, these users can set up a single email aaddress that will be shared by all the frames, making photo sharing even easier and more convenient.
The Kogan wireless frame is also environmentally sound, for it can be programmed to turn off automatically at night, to save power and protect the screen.
This Kogan 8″ wireless digital photo frame will be available in July of 2009.
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ThinkGeek put the word out about the new iGala Wi-Fi Linux-based photo frame!
Unlike other digital photo frames that just accept memory cards and show photos, the iGala has a brain inside its rectangular head. Use the touchscreen interface to configure the iGala to connect to your wi-fi network, then the iGala can do all kinds of smart things like login to a Gmail account and display any e-mailed photos on its hi-res 800×600 screen.
Of course the iGala can pull your photos automatically from Flickr and you can connect to Windows Live FrameIt or FrameChannel if you’re looking for a free web based interface to automatically push photos, news and traffic to your frame. No PC is required because the iGala is essentially a mini touchscreen computer running Linux.
FrameChannel or FrameIt?
The iGala frame comes in two models, one for FrameChannel service (http://www.framechannel.com) and one for Windows Live FrameIt service (http://frameit.live.com). They are both customizable web service platforms to manage the intelligent delivery of personalized content to wireless digital picture frames.
You are not required to use either of these two services. The iGala is perfectly capable of receiving photos sent via e-mail and handling Flickr RSS feeds of photos all by itself.
FrameChannel offers a library of hundreds of channels of content, all optimized for viewing on wireless picture frames. These include text based channels that are converted to images such as news headlines, live weather forecasts, sports scores, and horoscopes as well as image content from sources like National Geographic, AP Images and other galleries shot by the top photographers from around the world. This content is then married with each user’s personal photos that can be uploaded to FrameChannel or pulled from a variety of supported photo sharing sites including Flickr, Picasa, Webshots, Facebook and others. Each user selects the channels that interest them, sets the rules for each channel and FrameChannel applies its rules engine to create a unique content stream for each user that is updated continually. The iGala frame also features a simple One-Click setup for FrameChannel service.
Microsoft’s Windows Live FrameIt service lets users customize a content feed that is delivered via RSS which is similar to FrameChannel. Users can customize weather data, news sources and their own photos via Live Spaces or SmugMug. Once users customized the channel on FrameIt website, they can input its Collection Name on iGala to display its content.
The main difference between the two services is the scope of their image content collections. iGala users will be able to switch between FrameIt and FrameChannel services by performing an easy firmware refresh on the iGala frame.
Product Features
• Wi-Fi enabled photo frame can pull photos from Gmail and Flicker and has touch screen interface for network configuration
• 8″ 4:3 800X600 Digital LCD
• No PC Needed for Setup, No Subscription Fees for Online Use
• Full Screen Touchscreen Interface
• No PC Needed for Setup
• Linux based operating system
• Wifi 802.11b/g with WEP, WPA and WPA2
• 1GB Internal Memory Stores over 5,000 images
• Auto Synchronization with Flickr Photo Sets
• Access to Flickr Private Photos
• Email Photos to Frame
• Windows Live FrameIt or FrameChannel Support for Photos, News and Weather
• Insert SD media card to display photos from the card
• USB Mass Storage Connectivity
• MP3 Support to Play Music
• Auto Power Saving
• 110V/250V AC Adapter
• Clock and Alarm Function
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