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Are the engineers that designed this thinking that just because it has a video screen it needs to be stuffed full of a lot of gadgetry?

At what point do a manufacture stuff a frame so full that it no longer becomes a digital frame and becomes something else?

I can not help but think of 2 famous principals of GOOD design.

"LESS IS MORE"
"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION"

I am not sure this "gadget" adheres to these basic design principals... especially if they really want to call this a digital picture frame.

CeivaJoe
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Picture frames (even "traditional" frames for old fashioned paper pictures) are such they sit in the background in our homes and offices gently presenting to us and sharing with us images of past moments that mean so much to us.

Do people want to fiddle, futz and get greasy fingerprints on another gadget with functions that a computer, or better yet, a cell phone can do?

If picture showing is to be the primary function of the form (remember "form follows function") then I believe these over designed forms are not true digital picture frames. But what are they?

Be it perceived as "simplistic," at CEIVA, picture display is the primary function we honor in our forms.

CeivaJoe
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