Posted on Oct 31, 2009 by Jane Goodwin at 12:05 am
Motorola’s beautiful 10-inch wireless digital picture frame will make any room in your house a focal point!
Friends and family, as well as you, can e-amil photos directly to your Motorola frame; it has its own email address! You can also subscribe to various RSS feeds that will appear on your wireless frame, such as local and national news, weather, and sports.
You can even listen to the radio over your Motorola wireless picture frame!
With a screen resolution of 800 x 600, you know your pictures will appear bright and colorful.
An internal memory of 512 mb means you’ll be able to store up to 2300 digital pictures; that’s a lot of pictures, folks.
Your Motorola wireless digital photo frame also accepts SD, SDHC, MMC memory cards and USB flash drives. It’s compatible with Windows 2000 and higher.
Did I mention that it is also an Mp3 player, a calendar, and an alarm clock? Wow!
The holidays are fast approaching; don’t you think the people on your list ought to have a wireless digital picture frame?
If you’ve used an iPhone, you’ll know how frustratingly spotty its wireless coverage can be.
Fact is, wireless carriers such as AT&T (which serves the iPhone) are desperately searching for ways to unload the huge amount of traffic that are hitting their networks from iPhone and other smartphone owners. These users are slurping up large amounts of bandwidth to do things like browse the Internet and watch videos.
Ubiquisys is getting ready to attack cell phone dead zones and overcrowded 3G networks around the world with its femtocell technology. Today it announced it has raised $11 million more from existing investors, which it will use to support the service as it moves from testing to soft launch.
Femtocells are small devices that let cell phones tap the Internet in places where wireless cellular service is weak or unavailable. Calls are routed by low-power antenna through an existing DSL or cable router, or through an all-in-one device (such as Netgear’s Femtocell Voice Gateway) that includes both the router and the femtocell.
Femtocells haven’t taken off in a big way yet, but wireless carriers are definitely interested in femtocells’ ability to take a load off cellular networks. Last September, Ubiquisys and Japanese mobile carrier Softbank launched the first commercial 3G femtocells, using “ZoneGate” technology that allows devices to communicate and determine the best radio frequency for routing to the Internet.
Swindon, U.K.-based Ubiquisys is looking for partnerships around the world with more carriers, who often charge a monthly fee for the service. In exchange, customers may get perks, such as unlimited calling when using the femtocell. The idea is that the consumer can save money by nixing a local phone line, because the cell phone is reliable enough to replace it, while the carrier gets to ease the stress on its network.
The company’s chief executive, Chris Gilbert, said there’s been a spike in femtocell interest over the last few months, either signaling a possible economic recovery or a need from carriers to start addressing their network issues. Even in the United States, where femtocell interest was once driven coverage dead zones, the explosion in smartphone use has put a strain on wireless carriers. The renewed interest around the world has helped Ubiquisys raise its most recent round of funding, which now totals $53 million since August 2006.
Gilbert said Ubiquisys faces competition from Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent, among other smaller ventures, but those two companies don’t focus specifically on femtocell. As such, Gilbert said Ubiquisys is growing horizontally to a variety of companies and products, rather than vertically.
In addition to getting its technology into router-like devices, Gilbert wants Ubiquisys to work with TV and set-top box makers, allowing femtocell to cover more convenient areas of the home.
Mr. Allen took the best parts of several wireless/digital picture frames available today, and put them together to create his idea of the perfect wireless photo frame, and after reading his article I can only quote the Beach Boys and say, “Wouldn’t it be nice. . . .!”
The CDMA Femtocell 9100 Series includes a SIP VoIP soft phone and provides enhanced mobile phone coverage inside the home. It also allows users to deploy a femtocell connected through a broadband connection for optimal wireless performance and coverage. The device also serves as a touch-screen digital picture frame.
With this, consumers can have both a multi-use phone for both landline and cell, with one bill and a single service provider. The integrated digital picture frame allows consumers to display images that reflect their personal style.
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I recently attended a tradeshow in Providence, RI, and it was full of very sad sights indeed, at least from a marketing perspective. There were lots of folks in sharp-looking suits standing in booths and hoping that those of us walking the aisles might stop to talk to them. Instead of trying engage us and
The Olin Digital Photo Frame has a 7-inch TFT LCD high-definition screen, picture, audio & video playback, and is perfect for watching your JPEG/Mp3/WMA/AVI/DIVX/WMV/MPEG2/2/4 files. The frame is compatible with a USB 2.0 disk, and a SD/MMC/MS memory cards.
You can program the Olin digital frame to play slideshows or thumbnails, and your favorite Mp3’s
The Compositor 10.4-inch digital photo frame, with its LED backlit screen, 800 x 480 resolution and aspect ratio of 4:3, will display your digital photographs in a clear, bright, colorful slideshow that will become the center of attention in any room.
The acrylic frame is a neutral that will blend in with any decor. This frame
From PRLog.org comes the news that Sungale has released a new WiFi touchscreen digital picture frame: the Sungale ID800WT!
Here’s the press release:
May 18, 2009 – Chino, CA-During the 2009 Consumer Electronics Trade Show event, Sungale released its second generation of Wi-Fi touch screen digital photo frame—the Sungale ID800WT. Not only does the Sungale ID800WT boast
There’s one thing that all wireless/digital picture frames have in common: they all need to be located near an electrical outlet.
Actually, not any more. . . .
The Eneregizer rechargeable battery for digital photo frames lets you place your wireless/digital picture frame pretty much wherever you want it, whether they’re a nearby outlet or not.
This rechargeable
Following the January 7th press release announcing FrameChannel’s partner certification program, D-Link showcased their line of wireless frames using FrameChannel at CES. Though there were many wireless and digital frames being showcased at this year’s CES, D-Links partnership with FrameChannel certainly helped them stand out from the rest.
As shown in this image, the folks
Pandigital announced seven new digital picture frames today that add new sizes, features, and, through add-on kits, wireless options, to its line up. With the wireless kits, these frames become Pandigital’s first wireless digital picture frames. The new frames, which range in size from 6 inches to 15 inches, will be available in July, though