Archive for July, 2009

Hama Announces 15” Digital Photo Frame

From The Photography Blog comes this press release for hama’s new 15-inch digital picture frame:

In the run-up to the IFA show that will kick off on 4 September 2009, hama has announced a huge, 15” digital photo frame. It has an aspect ratio of 4:3 and a resolution of 1024×768 pixels. The contrast ratio of the screen has not been published yet. You can take a look at the new premium digital photo frame yourself in Hall 7.2c at the IFA show in Berlin.

hama Press Release

The Best Photos Far and Wide
In the old days, you used to have extra special photos enlarged to really bring out the best in them. Now, at the IFA trade fair, Hama is demonstrating a digital way to enlarge digital photos – with the 15” Digital Photo Frame.

The TFT-LC display presents images and videos at a screen diagonal of 38.10 cm, in the 4:3 format and at a resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels. The image display is perfected with background music from MP3 files. And if that’s still not interesting enough, you can zoom in and out of the images, rotate them, create a slide-show or configure split screen mode. A time display, calendar, alarm, timer switch function and adjustable image display duration make this large picture frame the i

deal desk accessory.
Item no. 90921 15” Premium Digital Photo Frame

Intel Digital Picture Frame All Set Up At BlogHer09!

This is Karen Regis, Intel’s director of consumer client marketing.  Her kiosk was set up at BlogHer, which took place in Chicago just this past weekend.

Her display consisted of several fantastic Intel products, besides the wireless/digital frame, and people were clustered around her, fascinated by them all.  People were particularly interested in the wireless/digital frame while I was there.

Karen graciously gave me permission to post her picture here, and I’m happy to do it and happy to “plug” Intel, because the very fact that Intel had a kiosk at BlogHer tells me that Intel is a company that understands how to market its products to women.

Many people had never seen a wireless/digital picture frame that close up before!  I was hearing all kinds of comments about how wonderful such a frame would be for a wedding gift, a shower gift, schools, lobbies, front desks,  birthday, Christmas, parents, for expectant parents, for grandparents, for aunts, uncles, cousins.  . . . . You know, the same thing I’ve been talking about right here for the past several years!  Only at the BlogHer conference, these words were coming out of the mouths of hundreds and hundreds of women bloggers who were seeing a product being demonstrated, having all their questions answered, and overall being treated like a viable customer whose business MATTERED to Intel.  Which, since Intel had a booth at BlogHer, our business obviously DOES.

Good for you, Intel, for having the foresight and the guts to spread your products out on a table for all theBlogHer community to see.  Kudos to your marketing department as well.  You obviously understand that the Blogosphere is the largest word-of-mouth marketing campaign in the world,  and that if a business wants its product or service known and praised,  there’s NO campaign like the campaign of a blogger!

Everyone at the Intel booth was knowledgeable and polite, too.  Way to go, Intel.  You rock.

HP DreamScreen Wi-Fi frame spotted at FCC

Electronista tells us about the new HP DreamScreen WiFi digital picture frame!

A new digital photo frame from HP, the DreamScreen, is expected to arrive soon, as it was recently spotted passing FCC tests. The frame will be available with a 10.2-inch or 13.3-inch screen and respective resolutions of 800×480 and 1280×800. The unique feature is the device’s ability to access photos from Facebook and Snapfish, while simultaneously streaming music from Pandora over its Wi-Fi or wired Internet connection.

Otherwise, the frames are fairly conventional, with 2GB of integrated storage space, a remote control, and a reader for CF, SD, and Memory Stick memory cards. Pricing and release dates for the DreamScreen frames is not yet known.

Pandigital Introduces Touch Clear Line of Wireless Photo Frames

From Image-Acquire comes this post about the new Pandigital Touch Clear line of wireless digital picture frames:

Pandigital is pleased to announce the launch of its PanTouch Clear line of digital photo frames that has a dynamic new design. This line of slim photo frames comes jam-packed with features despite being just 0.3″ thick. The frames are available in two sizes – 8in and 10.4in.

Some of the outstanding features of both the frames include an eye-catching 800×600 high-resolution LCD display and a 4:3 true photo aspect ratio. The 8in model includes 1GB of storage and a 6-in-1 digital media card reader while the 10.4in model offers 2GB and has a 5-in1 digital media card reader.

Other addition features of the PanTouch Clear frames that make them enjoyable to use include wireless and Bluetooth compatibility, programmable on/off times, clock and calendar functions. Users can view JPEG photos, play video and MP3 music files as well.

The Pandigital PanTouch Clear 8in and 10.4in digital photo frames have a recommended retail price of £109 and £149, respectively. For more information, please visit http://www.pandigital.net/.