Pandigital Photo Mail LED frame lets you email snaps over AT&T's wireless network
By Vlad Savov 
posted January 6th 2010 5:25AM
posted January 6th 2010 5:25AM
Pandigital Debuts Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame Powered by AT&T
Digital photo frame lets family and friends conveniently email photos to it; Sets new standard in digital photo sharing
Dublin, Calif., Jan. 6, 2010 – Pandigital today debuts the Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame – a next-generation, wirelessly connected digital photo frame that conveniently accepts photos emailed from family and friends. The frame will connect through AT&T's* wireless network and is expected to be available early this year.
"Consumers want a convenient, reliable way to share and enjoy photos with friends and family," said Dean Finnegan, CEO and founder, Pandigital. "We're enabling consumers to do just that with the Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame. For the first time, it's unbelievably simple and affordable to share and enjoy digital images via email to a digital photo frame."
The new Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame is incredibly simple to use. Each frame has its own dedicated email address powered by Snapfish by HP. Customers can share that address with family and friends so they can send photos directly to the frame from their own email account – whether it's from a computer or wireless device.
Upon receiving new photos via email, the recipient can quickly accept and view them. In an instant, consumers can enjoy photos taken by friends, family or even themselves, without leaving their home.
"Pandigital's Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame ushers in a new era of how consumers will share and enjoy digital images," said Glenn Lurie, president, emerging devices, resale and partnerships, AT&T Mobility. "Delivering photos to this frame is as easy as sending an email. Paired with AT&T's network, photo sharing becomes a very connected and convenient way to stay close to friends and family."
Affordably Priced
The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame is affordably priced at a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of $149.99. The price of the frame includes the ability to receive 300 photos emailed to the frame with no service fee to the customer. Additional photo allotments may be purchased directly from Pandigital.
Easy Way to Enjoy Digital Images
Photos shared through the device will also be available through an album at Snapfish.com, where people can easily preserve, enjoy and share their most valuable memories, order professionally-developed photos for as low as 9 cents a print, or create more than 100 customizable photo gifts such as books, calendars and more.
High-end Features in New Pandigital Connected Digital Photo Frame
The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame is a full-featured digital photo frame with a large 8-inch back-lit LED display in 800x600 resolution, so photos are crisp and clear. The 4:3 aspect ratio preserves the original format of the photos, ensuring that they are not stretched or cropped. Plus, with a full 1GB of internal memory and Pandigital's memory optimization mode, consumers can enjoy up to 6400 images on the display.
The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame can also be loaded with photos in more traditional ways – namely via its 6-in-1 media card reader (Compact Flash, SC, XD, MS, MSPro and MMC) or via a direct connection to a computer or digital camera. Images can be rotated and resized, and brightness and color settings can be changed. The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame also can play back AVI video clips and MP3 music files.
The Pandigital 8-inch Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame has many additional useful features, such as calendar, clock and alarm functions. Additionally, it can be programmed with specific on/off times so the frame will not use power unnecessarily. As with all Pandigital digital photo frames, the Pandigital 8-inch Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame was designed to look great in the home or office. It features a real wood frame, photo matting and a glass screen cover. As a result, it blends perfectly with additional frames in the home.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
Digital photo frame lets family and friends conveniently email photos to it; Sets new standard in digital photo sharing
Dublin, Calif., Jan. 6, 2010 – Pandigital today debuts the Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame – a next-generation, wirelessly connected digital photo frame that conveniently accepts photos emailed from family and friends. The frame will connect through AT&T's* wireless network and is expected to be available early this year.
"Consumers want a convenient, reliable way to share and enjoy photos with friends and family," said Dean Finnegan, CEO and founder, Pandigital. "We're enabling consumers to do just that with the Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame. For the first time, it's unbelievably simple and affordable to share and enjoy digital images via email to a digital photo frame."
The new Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame is incredibly simple to use. Each frame has its own dedicated email address powered by Snapfish by HP. Customers can share that address with family and friends so they can send photos directly to the frame from their own email account – whether it's from a computer or wireless device.
Upon receiving new photos via email, the recipient can quickly accept and view them. In an instant, consumers can enjoy photos taken by friends, family or even themselves, without leaving their home.
"Pandigital's Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame ushers in a new era of how consumers will share and enjoy digital images," said Glenn Lurie, president, emerging devices, resale and partnerships, AT&T Mobility. "Delivering photos to this frame is as easy as sending an email. Paired with AT&T's network, photo sharing becomes a very connected and convenient way to stay close to friends and family."
Affordably Priced
The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame is affordably priced at a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price of $149.99. The price of the frame includes the ability to receive 300 photos emailed to the frame with no service fee to the customer. Additional photo allotments may be purchased directly from Pandigital.
Easy Way to Enjoy Digital Images
Photos shared through the device will also be available through an album at Snapfish.com, where people can easily preserve, enjoy and share their most valuable memories, order professionally-developed photos for as low as 9 cents a print, or create more than 100 customizable photo gifts such as books, calendars and more.
High-end Features in New Pandigital Connected Digital Photo Frame
The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame is a full-featured digital photo frame with a large 8-inch back-lit LED display in 800x600 resolution, so photos are crisp and clear. The 4:3 aspect ratio preserves the original format of the photos, ensuring that they are not stretched or cropped. Plus, with a full 1GB of internal memory and Pandigital's memory optimization mode, consumers can enjoy up to 6400 images on the display.
The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame can also be loaded with photos in more traditional ways – namely via its 6-in-1 media card reader (Compact Flash, SC, XD, MS, MSPro and MMC) or via a direct connection to a computer or digital camera. Images can be rotated and resized, and brightness and color settings can be changed. The Pandigital Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame also can play back AVI video clips and MP3 music files.
The Pandigital 8-inch Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame has many additional useful features, such as calendar, clock and alarm functions. Additionally, it can be programmed with specific on/off times so the frame will not use power unnecessarily. As with all Pandigital digital photo frames, the Pandigital 8-inch Photo Mail LED Digital Photo Frame was designed to look great in the home or office. It features a real wood frame, photo matting and a glass screen cover. As a result, it blends perfectly with additional frames in the home.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
who says snaps?
@JS
maybe "snaps" as in snapshots? as opposed abbreviating it to to "shots"
novelty product, why would any one buy this other then for the novelty of saying " look and see i dont even have to come close to the photo frame to put a photo in it"!
even better my camera has a wireless sd card!!!!
swear to god thier putting the factory line in the home.....
@jac0bean
These have been available in Japan (from softbank) for some time, and they are rather successful. As noted, it's a great way to send pics to your computer-less parents and grandparents...
@jac0bean The only use i can think of is that if they open their API a funeral home can put several of these inside and you can upload pics of the deceased from your home.
@grandmainger even better, i can totally see you trying to send a pic of your dick to your gf natalie, and accidently emailing it to nana.... Poor old nana is sitting there staring at the picture of what used to be her deceased husband of fifty years, and you decide to email her a pic of your dick....
@jac0bean
You are pretty shortsighted. There are thousands of people with parents that are not technically savvy but still might want to enjoy pictures from their family in an age where nearly all pictures are digital. Assuming they may not get over the hurdle of receiving the picture and getting it to print or loading it on to a SD card for the previous iterations of digital frames, this allows an easy way to get pictures to them in a state they can enjoy.
@jac0bean
You take pictures of your dick?
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@jac0bean
classic!
Cor, the graduate on the left looks about forty five years old.
I don't care about the digital photo frame, who is the girl in the photo?
I like the way she's holding that diploma.
@Switchbitch
Yes, she's clearly a pro, as in professional.
She didn't get that diploma by studying *wink, wink*
BTW, engadget, the line-height is set to low for comment text. The bottom of the text gets clipped. Increase it from 15 to 18px, or something.
I wonder if that girl got that diploma majoring in anatomy?
The worst of this photo frame is that it will work only on the AT&T network. So if you live in NY, SF, and other major cities, including most outlying areas where 3G is scarce, sending a pic at high resolution to gam-ma would take months or it wouldn't send at all! This frame with AT&T's network = fail.
@Gator352
Oh please. AT&T's data delivery is fine. Anyone's data delivery is fine for this application. It is not like there are high throughput demands or latency concerns. You are mailing a small file.
Amazon uses AT&T for the kindle. Is that a "fail"?
@Curious G
Yes! Anything on at&t is a fail.
Thus begins the transition back to snail mail.
I think this is a pretty cool product.
My mother bugs me for pictures of my family (daughter, etc...) all the time. This would be a cool gift idea where I could send random pictures to the frame over time. It would give her something to look forward to.
I just hope there is some extra security to prevent hacks from sending photos of their dong to my mother...
@Alberti / jac0bean / et al
What the hell is it with you guys and taking pictures of your anatomy?
Is your penis detachable? Have you not seen it in a while?
WTF
@ytilanigiroon
Touchy subject for you I see…
You’ll notice I didn’t make a comment on photographing mine, yet the possible misuse of a potential spammer/hacker. But I can tell you didn’t get your nap today so I’ll leave it alone.
yeah, so long as you're not in a big city you'll be able to use the AT&T network. Seems to me like a certain network provider should figure out how to get its existing hardware up to par before screwing around with this type of junk.
I agree that this is pretty cool. I remember giving a frame to my parents a couple of years ago and they basically got sick of the photos on it and had no idea they could upload photos to the card even after I told them, which is a duh for most parents. But I do love the idea, more curious how much that per pic charge will be.
As for errant emails, I'm surprised they're using an email address and I'm curious how it deals with spam. I would have much preferred a secure connection or ideally DropBox integration since it's usually just a couple of individuals on a closed network accessing the frame. Now there's a product idea!
@contempt To use Dropbox to upload to a digital photo frame, get one with wifi and Media RSS support. Then use http://ourdoings.com/ for putting your pictures up. OurDoings integrates with Dropbox and gives you multiple Media RSS feeds suitable for photo frames.
Good idea, but not even new to the states. There was one that worked on T-Mobile's network. I can't remember the cost or if there were fees to use the network. I looked into it and it wasn't an option because my house has horrible T-Mobile coverage. Also, it was a smaller frame probably lower resolution.
Wow guys. T-Mobile Cameo has been out for quiet some time. $40, plus $1.99 a month sounds a hell of a lot cheaper. And you don't even need to have it connected if you don't want to pay anymore.
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