Digital photo frames have been more than just photo frames since the earliest days of the product category, but
eStarling looks to be expanding things even further than usual with its new 802.11n Touchscreen Connected Frame. In addition to that speedy WiFi connectivity, this one boasts a fairly large 10.2-inch display, 2GB of RAM, an SD card slot and, most importantly, a slew of social networking features. That includes support for photos from Facebook, Picasa or Flickr (more services are also promised), a built-in Twitter client, a video inbox feature to receive videos shot with cellphones (or any other internet-connected device, for that matter), and even its own Gmail address to let anyone easily send photos straight to the frame. Unfortunately for anyone considering this as an alternative to a kitchen computer, there's no full-fledged web browser, calendar apps, or the like, but it will at least give you weather updates, and could well be further improved by some of the promised firmware updates. Of course, all that will also cost you more than your usual photo frame -- $249.99, to be specific.
posted Nov 5th 2009 2:16AM
A portable Netflix Player!
What about 1080P? I can only stand 1920x1080 resolution on 800x480 screens. All my gadgets have to be able to do this.
that would be my thoughts on this... we know this is running some variant of linux, why not just throw a web browser on this and make the thing worth throwing more than 2 bills for a freak'n picture frame.
Stick an atom 330 or neo X2 in there and they'd be on to somethibg :)
$249.99 and wait for firmware updates? No browser? You'd be better off buying a netbook.
Why on earth would you need a browser on a digital picture frame? The social networking features aren't there so you can check myspace and communicate with it. They are there so you can display pictures from myspace, flickr, etc... on your digital picture frame, via the wireless connection.
It just means I don't have to upload pictures to 500 different places and then worry about putting them all on a picture frame too. 249 Isn't any more expensive than most other digital frames with some of the features that this has.
I'd like to see Sony put some of this in their frames, so I can view all of my pics that I have on flickr.
Maybe my problem is with a $249 device that is a keyboard and an OS short of being a netbook... My budget has a problem with me spending $249 on a digital picture frame. For me, I'd rather pay a little more for a netbook or pay half the price for a digital photo frame.
Tablet hard drives? :DD!!
...and I'd say he knows a little more about social networking than you do pal because he invented it. And then he perfected it on the internet so that no living man could best him in his ring of friends.
i like it o.o
i dont know why, but for some reason i like it haha
http://www.tvlesson.com/video/41419_how-to-use-the-esterling-photo-frame.html
Just get the facebook Screen Saver I made for your netbook.... and you have a social digital photoframe whenever you dont use your netbook and leave it to charge. Enjoy :)
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/apps/application.php?id=141062016800&ref=ts