Samsung 700Z OLED photo frame hands-on

Man, what is it about OLED displays that makes us weak in the knees? Samsung has gone on an OLED binge here at this year's CES, stuffing the awesome screen tech into almost anything they can. Next up: the 700Z, a snazzy piano black photo frame that has built in Bluetooth and 4GB of internal memory. There isn't much else to say about this piece of fingerprint-attracting tech, but it sure does look pretty.

Samsung 700Z OLED photo frame hands-on

[OrsonX Posted Jan 7th 2010 5:54PM]

Looks nice, have been after a digital photo frame for AGES, but the majority are utter tosh. I did in fact buy one from Polaroid which was nice apart from the defective glowing green pixel smack in the middle.. DIxons grudgingly took it back.

Does this one need to be plugged into the mains power? It'd be nice to have one w/o trailing leads. Also with these picture frames the trend seems to be to turn them into a "does it all picture frame" with WiFi, touch screen, radio, movies, coffee maker etc. I don't want and of these features, just an SD card slot and a decent high res screen....

Suppose I should read the specs for this one....

[nothing Posted Jan 7th 2010 6:10PM]

@OrsonX

Most of these frames require external power

[triptych Posted Jan 7th 2010 6:21PM]

AWESOME OLED SCREEN → Camera Optics → Camera Sensor → JPEG compression → TN panel LCD → :(

[JAMF Posted Jan 7th 2010 6:23PM]

Theoretically, OLED tech should use less power than LCD tech (CCFL or LED), so it could be battery powered and require charging from time to time. It would require a side by side comparison. Kodak has been selling an OLED picture frame for quite some time, but as the price is up there ($999), we'll have to wait what the price tag will be.

As Sammy has a netbook with OLED screen of the same size, this probably sports the same 1024x600 resolution.

[cdf74dc9 Posted Jan 7th 2010 10:45PM]

Most expensive photoframe ever and it doesn't look to save any space either. Why can't we have a laptop with oled rather than a useless photo frame.

[JAMF Posted Jan 10th 2010 12:13PM]

@cdf74dc9 The KODAK one? True enough, but the Samsung is reported as having a RRP $300

[j3ff Posted Jan 30th 2010 5:27PM]

Is that an hdmi port on it?