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ChinaVision introduces a new WiFi digital picture frame!
It’s got a big 10.2-inch TFT LCD screen, with an incredible 800 x 600 resolution. Pretty nice for watching your slideshows or your movies!
You can look at your pictures via your camera’s memory card or almost any flash drive, too.
To get WiFi access, you will have to plug in the WiFi dongle (included), but once you do, you can browse for pictures, movies, and music all over the internet! You can connect to your Flickr account, or check out images from pretty much anywhere on the ’net. You’ll have RSS capability, too.
Put this frame on your desk or tabletop, or hang it on the wall! Full dimensions are 299 X 239 x 43mm.
You’ll also enjoy the calendar functions and the clock/alarm.
Your mother wants you to buy this Rosewill digital picture frame, load it up with great pictures, and give it to her for Mother’s Day. Seriously, she does.
Your mother wants the Rosewill digital picture frame because it’s so absolutely simple to use! No computer is needed; this digital frame displays photos, movies, and plays music directly from almost any memory card or flash drive.
Tell you mom she can control her new Rosewill digital photo frame from her comfy chair, with the wireless remote. She won’t have any trouble seeing the 8-inch TFT LCD 640 X 480 screen!
Over on NewEgg, the Rosewill digital picture frame is a great buy: only $70.00 (after rebate) and you can get started on that rebate right HERE!
Oh yes. Your mother also likes the Rosewill digital picture frame because it’s red.
As the recent winner of an iPod Nano in an online contest, I am naturally VERY interested in all of the things my new iPod can do.
Since I am also EXTREMELY interested in all of the things a wireless/digital picture frame can do, this Mustek digital picture frame, which is also an iPod dock, looks really, really good to me!
The digital frame has a 7-inch display with a resolution of 480 x 234, video, music playback, and photo viewing, a rechargeable battery, and an iPod dock, which recharges the iPod even as the iPod displays its pictures and plays its music on the Mustek digital photo frame!
Over on Amazon, the Mustek 7-inch Digital Photo Frame/iPod Dock is only $99.99!
Oh, and speaking of online contests: stay tuned.
From the April 30 DIGITIMES comes this news about OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) digital photo frame orders:
“In view of the estimated global demand for 20 million digital photo frames in 2008, many makers in southern China have offered lower prices to compete with Taiwan-based makers for OEM orders, but their disadvantages in inferior quality and inability to secure supplies of small-sized TFT-LCD panels renders them unattractive to international brand vendors including Phillips, Sony, Toshiba, and ViewSonic, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Most makers in southern China used to assemble digital music and/or DVD players and thereby are familiar with image processing and modulating technologies, the sources pointed out. AS the technological barriers for stepping into making digital photo frames are not high, makers have quoted prices 5-8% lower than Taiwan-based makers to compete for OEM orders.
However, compared with leading Taiwan-based competitors such as Lead Data, Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Qisda, China-based makers are significantly less competitive in terms of quality, production capacity and ability to procure enough TFT-LCD panels (mainly 7- and 8.9-inch) partly due to competition from low-costs notebook PC’s and handheld devices, the sources analyzed.
Consequently, it will be hard for china-based makers to land OEM orders from leading international vendors for the time being, the sources asserted, and so the makers are currently focusing on winning orders from second-tier and small vendors, white-box brands, as well as retail channels, the sources noted.
Currently, leading Taiwan-based makers each ship 200,000 - 300,000 digital photo frames a month while the average monthly shipment volume for China-based competitors is below 100,000 units, the sources indicated. Of the estimated global demand for 20 million digital photo frames in 2008, Taiwan-based makers may collectively account for as much as 90% of shipments with China-based makers making up the remaining 10%, the sources forecast.”
