Samsung's Digital Photo Frame
We expect lots more craziness from Samsung later in the week, but we spotted this new Digital Photo Frame from them at AMD's booth at yesterday's CES press preview. Apparently the frame, which has a 7-inch LCD (no resolution is listed) and a "network module" of some kind so you can send a picture directly to the frame from your cameraphone, is already out in South Korea and should hit the States sometime this year.
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Max v W @ Jan 4th 2006 5:58AM
I'll take two please.
Andrea @ Jan 4th 2006 6:05AM
I prefer the design of Philips digital photo frame, but the networkmodule is a nice feature, at least for ?geaks like us.
anon @ Jan 4th 2006 6:09AM
One question, why?
Cem @ Jan 4th 2006 6:14AM
Holy smokes, that this looks awesome. As does the YM-P1: http://www.samsunghq.com/content/view/27/5/
Eli @ Jan 4th 2006 6:42AM
Cool, I can look at low-resolution cameraphone photos in my living room!
Wait...why would I want to do that?
Now if I could make a picture frame in my parents' house rotate through recent photos I've sent it...that would be useful (and they'd stop emailing me all the time).
sunystory @ Jan 4th 2006 6:49AM
you can send photos to the frame via the service provider. You can also do slide show via your cell phone like a remote controller
Rob Green @ Jan 4th 2006 6:50AM
I want one of those for my desk at work... wonder if I can write a little app to feed it from photos on Flickr :o)
JOHNANN @ Jan 4th 2006 6:56AM
Nice and I would get one - but! Who wants a big SAMSUNG logo on their photo frame? that's sooo not cool.
Mike @ Jan 4th 2006 6:59AM
Why the hell are all the digital picture frames on the market STILL so ungodly expensive?
I was at Brookstone and they had ones with tiny, low res screens. The color reproduction was terrible and you could see the thing refreshing. Oh, and they were $200-300.
This makes no sense considering that 15" LCD's start around $130. Surely a screen half that size with a card reader and some linux-based display software can't cost THAT much to engineer!
Personally, I bought a handful of Virgin Webplayers on ebay for $50-70 each, replaced the included OS with Windows 98 Lite, added a free screensaver that reads Jpegs from a directory, and used a cheap usb flash drive for photos. Total cost? $70-100
The unit has a MUCH larger screen (not sure how big, but i'd guesstimate 7-8") and works great. The Chinese have managed to drive prices down on EVERYTHING due to their cheap labor... when are they gonna jump on the digital picture frame bandwagon?
TZK @ Jan 4th 2006 8:19AM
I see no real point in these digital phoeo frames unless the idea-guys actually converge its function with something else.
Like a CLOCK or calender mode, or even alarm clock with MP3 capabilites.
Mmm... mewzak to your photos... yum.
W. Lee @ Jan 4th 2006 1:12PM
Here's a 10.4" TFT photo frame for < $300, and it plays MP3 too.
http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-5884637.html
Bdizzle @ Jan 4th 2006 1:40PM
I really like the concept of digital frames and unlike the previous poster, I want it as sparse as possible. Just give me a classy looking frame and a place to stick my secure digital card.
brandon @ Jan 4th 2006 1:52PM
@w. lee
That photo frame may be one of the cheapest I've seen, but it's probably the ugliest as well.