Sungale WiFi Widget photo frame gets a hands-on

Sungale's recently unleashed a WiFi-enabled, widget-having digital photo frame -- the ID800WT -- and the fine folks over at Zatz Not Funny have taken it for a little spin. The 800 x 600 resolution touchscreen boasts 512 MB of internal storage, and widgets for weather, news, Picasa, YouTube, Gmail, and Internet radio. The reviewer didn't find the widgets to be particularly awesome, in many respects -- their implementation, for instance, made the Gmail app "nearly useless" because it displayed only a few lines at a time, and many had trouble connecting to the internet properly. It wasn't all doom and gloom, however -- they really liked the frame in theory, and thought that the company was shooting for the right idea -- they just didn't actually succeed. The frame will be available sometime in the coming month for about $165.

[BB @ Jun 29th 2009 9:41PM]

Yet another digital photo frame, boring...

[OneLove @ Jun 30th 2009 10:20AM]

bezel!!

[Eddie @ Jun 29th 2009 10:13PM]

Would be cool if it could run anrdoid...

[GrossGreg @ Jun 29th 2009 10:18PM]

It's like Chumby without the developer community.

[iFargle @ Jun 29th 2009 11:52PM]

You couldn't have picked a worse looking setting to take that picture, could you?

[domoPod @ Jun 30th 2009 12:18AM]

oh i'll give it to you hands on.

[nathandanielsn @ Jun 30th 2009 2:46AM]

I have and Archos 705 wifi. It looks just like a digital picture frame, has 160 gb of space for pics, videos, and whatever and in my opinion looks alot better sitting on my headboard than that horrible looking frame.

[E71 @ Jun 30th 2009 7:43AM]

butt ugly gui

[inteller @ Jun 30th 2009 8:14AM]

ridiculous price.

[Mari @ Jun 30th 2009 11:26AM]

Good news is that the folks from Sungale are working on another firmware update before official retail launch. Bad news is that the price will be higher.

[GeeKeeMom @ Jul 16th 2009 10:17AM]

Why the heck do they mash so much crap into these things. Its a FRIGGIN PHOTO FRAME! That's all it needs to be.