Sanyo Announces Release of 7-Inch Wifi HNV-M70 Frame

On Tuesday, October 29, Sanyo announced that its 7-inch HNV-M70 wireless digital picture would be released on November 14, in Japan.

Look at this frame!  How cool!

With a resolution of 800 x 480, and an aspect ratio of of 16:9, the Sanyo HNV-M70 ALBO-series wireless digital frame guarantees that your JPEG or BMP photos, whether you send them to the frame via email, cell phone, or any other method, will be bright, clear, colorful, and wonderful to behold!

You read that right: the Sanyo HNV-M70 frame is wireless; the built-in 802.11b/g Wifi module and network support will let you coordinate almost any internet photo wite - Picasa, Photo Warehouse, Flickr, etc. - with your frame.  This frame also supports up to 10 RSS feeds, which makes me hope that it will be FrameChannel-compatible.

The wireless Sanyo frame can receive emails and display any attached pictures!  It can also send brief replies.

With 256 MB of internal memory, the wireless Sanyo frame can hold hundreds of pictures in and of itself.  It also has ports that can be used with almost any memory card or flash drive, as well as a USB port for digital cameras and computers, should you wish to upload pictures that way.

The Sanyo HNV-M70 wireless digital picture frame will also play your favorite Mp3’s.

While the November 14 release date is only for Japanese stores, we can hope that the Sanyo HNV-M70 WiFi digital picture frame will be released in the States soon, also.

P.S.  Don’t forget to vote today!!

The NPD Group Announces "Coming Out Party" For Digital Picture Frames As A Favorite Gift

The NPD Group has recently released data that tells us that the digital picture frame product grossed nearly twelve million dollars for the week ending May 12, 2007. What does this mean? It means that as many people bought digital picture frames for Mother’s Day, as bought them for Christmas presents last December!

The most popular frame seems to be the 7-inch digital picture frame; almost 56 percent of the digital frame market in revenue were 7-inch frames. Perhaps one reason sales were so good is that the average price of a digital frame has dropped considerably, sometimes as much as a hundred dollars. Another reason is that there are many more digital picture frame products on the market now.

Liz Cutting, senior imaging analyst for The NPD Group, says that “digital picture frames really came into their own around the holidays and are now gaining even more momentum as great gifts for Mom. There are so many options now, incorporating video, audio, internal memory, and Wi-Fi capabilities; the possibilities for having pictures come to life are endless. This gives moms the opportunity to showcase a moving montage at work, at home, or on the go.”

My mother, who has no computer nor any computer skills of ANY kind, has a birthday in August. Guess what she’s getting? She won’t need to do anything but turn it on. Her frame will be loaded with pictures when she opens it up.