Transcend doles out 7-inch T.photo 720 digiframe

Last September, Transcend had the bright idea of cluttering up the digital photo frame market even further with its own ho hum offering. Apparently the idea went over okay -- or the brilliant suit who decided to go for it is to prideful to admit otherwise. Either way, today we're presented with the 7-inch T.photo 720, a much less traditional frame (in terms of design) with a 800 x 480 resolution display, 2GB of integrated memory, built-in stereo speakers / headphone jack and an obligatory multicard reader. You'll also find a USB socket, FM tuner, support for video playback and a customizable alarm clock. If you're down with the rounded corners, you can expect this one later this month (in black or white) for around $165.

[Via AkihabaraNews]

[neofolklore @ Jul 8th 2008 8:46AM]

U-S-E-L-E-S-S

[Mark @ Jul 8th 2008 2:35PM]

Hardly. While it may look fugly, it's got a lot of features that would be well suited for an office desk / cubicle, for the kitchen or for other areas where you'd like to have access to date, time, radio, occasional photos and occasional torrented tv shows and movies.

[Matt @ Jul 8th 2008 9:14AM]

Actually I don't think a product like this is completely useless. Something like this would be perfect on my desk at work. I can have a radio, calendar, clock all along with pictures of my brand new baby. I'm all for it.

[Toby @ Jul 8th 2008 9:26AM]

This kind of thing will take off.... even more than the initial offerings of just the picture frame variety. There are million upon millions of clock radios besides beds all over the world. These gadgets will replace many of these old things. Once they offer wifi in them as well you could get your video news instead of just the radio, picures etc. Lots of possibilities..... bet you have one in 5 years time.

[huh @ Jul 8th 2008 9:35AM]

give it wireless, a touchscreen and vnc and I'd buy it as a controller.

[Sheepman @ Jul 8th 2008 10:10AM]

not too shabby...800x480 on 7 inches? cant we seriously do a little better? its 2008!

[bob.hawkey @ Jul 8th 2008 12:27PM]

Ok, this is a colour ebook reader for $165 with about the same resolution as the Sony Reader with greyscale for $300. WTF?

[diode3diode @ Jul 8th 2008 3:19PM]

ebook reader huh, I guess I'll wait for the 10" version. Irex Iliad with grayscale for $700. WTF?

[jared @ Jul 9th 2008 3:32PM]

Not a Chumby killer... Though I still think they should take Chumby and offer a picture frame version.