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Parrot’s New Designer Collection Begins With Andree Putman

This classy beauty is from the Parrot Designer Collection, and it was designed by Andree Putman.

Those in the know will recognize Putman’s personal style immediately.  And whether you are in the know or not, Parrot’s gorgeous Putman frame is absolutely fantastic!

Putman says that “I would like to pay tribute to Parrot for daring to think that this wonder of technology could be coiled up inside a beautifujl wrapping.  Storage fans will be the most vulnerable to the charm of this object, which will overcome any problems of arranging photo souvenirs.”

According to Henri Seydoux, CEO and founder of Parrot, “Here at Parrot, we have always put design in the limelight.  The Parrot frame by Andree Putman is the first in a series of artistic dedications for our range of wireless audiovisual products.”

This new and artistic Parrot frame is wireless, and the bright, clear 15-inch LCD screen makes your pictures look wonderful, even from across a large room.  Just like all the other Parrot wireless/digital picture frames, the Putman frame automatically rotates and resizes all of your pictures to stylishly fit the screen.  There are several choices of slideshow, too.

Bluetooth technology allows you to transfer pictures to the Putman frame directly from your cell phone!  You can also program the wireless frame to display pictures from your computer via most content providers.  Unfortunately, Parrot wireless frames are not yet programmed to use FrameChannel, but I’m sure that day is coming.

Picture frames of all kinds have always been attractive, and with the advent of noted artists designing wireless/digital picture frames now, it’s like having a work of art in your room!  In fact, you DO have a work of art in your room!

The new Parrot Designer Collection is not available in the States yet, but just you wait a bit:  soon Americans will be able to purchase these beautiful wireless picture frames, too!

Motorola and Kodak Present the Wireless Digital Motozine ZN5!

From TWICE comes the news that Motorola and Kodak have joined forces with their new 5 megapixel cameraphone, the ZN5.

The Motozine ZN5 is a fully functional Kodak camera, and when you use it, you can automatically download the pictures from the camera to your computer the moment you take them, or, you can save them for later.  Once on the computer, you can utilize the Kodak Gallery and all of the Kodak picture functions. 4 gigs of expandable memory give you plenty of room for tons of pictures.

You can also download your pictures to almost any other picture-sharing website.  I recommend, naturally, FrameChannel.  Of course, you can also store your pictures on the Kodak site, or Picasa, or Flickr, or Google, or, actually, anywhere on the net, and still use FrameChannel to manage them.  Once on FrameChannel, or any picture site, your wireless digital picture frame will immediately begin to include the new pictures in its slideshow!

Your Kodak/Motorola camera will upload your pictures to any wireless digital picture frame you tell it to; whether it’s yours in your own living room, or Grandma’s a thousand miles away.  How cool is that?

Wifi, Bluetooth, MMS. . . . or a direct Kodak Gallery upload. . . Think of the many options the Motozine ZN5 offers!

The Parrot DF7700: The Waiting Is Almost Over!

I’ve posted before about the upcoming Parrot DF7700 wireless digital picture frame, and it looks like the waiting is almost over!

CNet Reviews’ Kent German informs us that this amazing Parrot wireless digital photo frame will be unveiled at this week’s CTIA.

According to Mr. German, “. . .the Parrot DF7700 is the first digital photo frame (as least that we know of) with an integrated SIM card and dedicated phone number. The phone number will allow you to send photos directly from your camera phone to the DF7700.”

The Parrot DF7700 wireless photo frame comes in both black leather or brown leather. The 7-inch display features 720 x 480 pixels, and supports 262,000 colors. Various features include adjustable backlighting and automatic photo orientation. This frame can hold up to 500 images in JPEG or GIF format, and when you use the wireless features, the number of pictures are, of course, unlimited.

Still no price available, but by this time next week, Parrot is sure to disclose it.

Asustek Enters the Wireless Digital Picture Frame Market

According to Digitimes, Asustek is getting ready to launch its own wireless digital picture frame line this summer, perhaps as early as June 2008, joining Sony as an already-established electronics company deciding to join the ever-growing, ever-popular wireless digital picture.market.

Some of the new Asustek wireless/digital picture frames will be compatible with Bluetooth devices, most of the digital frames will have wireless internet access, and some will be able to receive DVB-T and DVB-11 signals to display television programs.

Asutek’s decision to enter the wireless digital picture frame market is another indication of the massive wireless photo frame growth predicted for 2008: there were 12-13 million units sold in 2007, and 20 million units are expected to be sold this year. It is also predicted that consumers will be purchasing wireless digital picture frames with larger viewing screens; last year, 7-inch frames were the most popular, but this year, it’s predicted that 8 and 10-inch frames will be the most popular. (Thank you, Digitimes, for the stats!)

I hope the new Asustek wireless digital frames are FrameChannel-compatible!