Sungale ID800WT Cyberus 8-Inch WI-FI Touch Digital Photo Frame (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this as a Christmas present for my boyfriend, since he wants pictures around the house, and I hate clutter. I was initially drawn to this for all of the "features."
1. I thought the touch screen would be cool, but you just end up with a bunch of fingerprints all over the screen.
2. I am pretty tech-saavy, but after purchasing an extra memory card and spending 3 wonderful hours with this thing, I couldn't get pictures to load and fit properly. On that note, you have to resize the pictures for the frame, or they won't load at all. No, thank you.
3. It looks really cheap.
4. The interface is not very user-friendly. It's like an old DOS program. If you know what that is, I'm sure you're running by now, and if you don't know what that is, well, you should be running.
5. This frame connected wirelessly once. After that, it said it couldn't connect to my router (when it could recognize it), and that perhaps I had too many other things trying to connect. I've never heard of that, and it's a total bunch of crap.
Needless to say, I returned this the next day. I trekked over to Best Buy and got an HP DreamScreen 100 10-Inch Wireless Connected Screen. I know the reviews seem bad on that, too, but I absolutely love mine. Easy setup (it took 5 minutes), no photo resizing, beautiful interface, and no wireless problems. It's got a bigger screen and is very sleek looking. Basically, every issue I had with this crappy Sungale frame was fixed by the Dreamscreen. I'd recommend getting one of those instead. I wouldn't wish this nightmare on my worst enemy.

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The Sungale ID800WT Hi-Resolution Wi-Fi enabled 8-Inch Touch Screen Digital Photo Frame is a great product for users to enjoy Wi-Fi content without having to log onto a PC or Laptop. This Plug and Play Device is easy to set up and auto links to a home or business wireless router with an auto configuration option. The Sungale ID800WT Wi-Fi Touch Screen Digital Photo Frame allows users to view and download photos from Google's Picasa, listen to hundreds of IP radio stations around the world, find weather forecasts by zip code, access YouTube Videos via RSS feed, receive Gmail alerts, search real time stock quotes, and catch up on local and international news through Google and Yahoo News. Compatible with SD, MMC, MS and XD memory cards, the Sungale ID800WT Hi-Resolution Wi-Fi Enabled 8 Inch Touch Screen Digital Photo Frame can store up to 2 GB of Memory allowing users to enjoy watching Movies, listening to Music, browsing Photos and reading e-books in text format in addition to the Wi-Fi enabled features. Standard features include Digital Calendar, Analogue clock display, Alarm clock feature and built in speakers.

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MeeFrame MF-801W-US 8-Inch Touch Screen Wi-Fi Digital Photo Frame Review

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(More customer reviews)I was very excited to find the MeeFrame on Amazon with one very favorable review, so I bought 3 for gifts for our parents for our wedding. I spent hours trying to get it to work properly with my internet connection before finding out that I had to manually install firmware updates that I had to download. Even after going through all that, the frame is unable to accept new pictures via email as easily as advertised. You have to go to your online account to receive new pictures before they will display on your linked frame, and even then, there's quite some lag time. The Kodak Pulse hooked up to my internet with minimal effort and promptly got all the updates it needed, and was up and running within minutes. Photos emailed to the frame show up within minutes as well. It's like night and day. I returned the MeeFrame and LOVE the Kodak Pulse.Kodak Pulse 7-Inch Digital Frame

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Looqs MeeFrame MF-801W-US 8-Inch digital true touch screen photo frame has direct WiFi connection with access point to the internet. Easy set up to any in-home or office wifi system. Features and benefits include picture storage in 1GB memory or any SD, MMC or CF memory card. No charge membership to MeeChannel.com photo sharing website where you can store, manage, edit and share your favorite photos. You can also allow access to any other MeeFrame owner for photo downloading and sharing. Also works for downloading from Flickr and Picasa. Mee Frame can also connect via wi-fi to MeeBox, central storage device for your local network. Stores all network media. E-mail photos directly to MeeFrame from all over the world. MeeFrame has alarm clock function, touch screen, real life 3-day weather forecast, music player, internet radio, news and information, interchangeable photo borders, remote control, WiFi connection via 802. 11b, USB enabled and 800x600 LCD touch screen.

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HP DreamScreen 100 10.2-Inch Wireless Connected Screen Review

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(More customer reviews)The HP DreamScreen is at its heart, a digital photo frame that's begging to be much more.
As with so many of 2009's consumer electronics, the DreamScreen is yet another example of a company trying to bolt on extended connectivity to popular sites. This time around, we have access to Facebook, Pandora, and Snapfish via built-in wired and wireless networking.
Setting up the DreamScreen is fairly painless. It quickly found and connected to my WPA2 network without any problems, and the built-in applications all ran as I had expected them to, albeit, very slowly. I thought that the slowness may be due to the product being so new, and immediately checked for a firmware update. Sure enough, there was one. However, it didn't seem to improve the response time.
The DreamScreen is quite large. Probably larger than what I'd want on my desk, and a bit too large for a normal end table. And while the back has slots to accept every type of flash media under the sun, it also makes the unit itself quite deep, making wall mounting an unattractive option.
As I had said previously, the included applications all work pretty much as I had expected them to. Facebook is a passive stream of status updates or photos. Snapfish can be pointed to someone's account, and Pandora seems to do the right thing if you already have a Pandora account with stations set up. The weather application updates quickly and often, and is visually appealing. The inherent problem with all of these, is that they aren't integrated or well executed.
So, mixing photos between any of the applications is just not possible without navigating between the different applications. On one hand, I can understand that the DreamScreen doesn't claim to do it, but if you're going to bundle multiple photo options, being able to see them all in a rotation seems like a natural function to me. And while Pandora works, the controls are not well thought out (e.g. making the music stop) and as you'd probably expect from a device like this, the audio quality is not very good.
Ultimately, you end up with a product that you'd normally "set and forget", but that really needs a lot of interaction to make any of the features work. I could see having this mounted somewhere that I could enjoy glancing at the pictures, and notice every once in a while that it's telling me what the weather's like, or that one of my friends has posted new pictures on Facebook. But in execution, I'd need to go find the remote, and navigate to each function. If I'm going to take the time to do that, why wouldn't I just grab my computer? (Or if I didn't have one, why wouldn't I spend about as much money on a netbook?)
The image quality is decent, but not nearly as good as what you'd see on the similarly sized Sony DPF-V900 9-Inch Digital Photo Frame (and a popular choice, now that I see it on another review). Again, it does what HP says it does, but it doesn't do it as well as it could, and seems almost an afterthought.
The DreamScreen really begs the question: "What need does this fulfill?"
If you're looking for a photo frame, you have better options from Sony, Kodak, and others.
If you're looking for an easy link to Facebook, the interface and one-way nature of the device puts a wet towel on that.
If you're looking for a portable media center, the audio quality is a serious barrier.
If you're looking for a "keep Grandma updated with something easy to use" device, you're hitting limitations with the interface (and wireless availability).
I just can't think of a single reason to buy this over another product, other than to say "Hey, check out this frame. Look at everything it can do."

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The HP 10-inch DreamScreen makes it easy to enjoy photos, music, video, as well as weather, clocks,calendars, Facebook, and more.

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Intouch IT7150 7-Inch Wireless Internet Frame Review

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(More customer reviews)This goes beyond the electronic photo frames that have been popular for a few years. The Intouch is a multimedia picture frame that can play music and videos as well as display pictures. It can connect to your home network and the Internet. You can also save your media to a card and plug it into the frame, which is probably the easiest way for most people to use the Intouch.
Connecting to the network takes a lot of work and it will confuse the average computer user. I spent a few hours trying to make it work and gave up. Then I tried it again and it connected. The trick is to allow sharing through Windows Media 11 on your computer.
Accessing the Internet news and radio work well once you get the frame connected to your home network. Connecting the frame to the home network is no different than connecting a computer to the home network. Once connected, you can tap your way to news, Internet radio, podcasts and Web TV (but I couldn't get this one to work).
Now tapping is another story, which is one reason this gets a lower score. It takes too much work to tap and scroll down lists. The screen isn't very sensitive and the scrolling requires tapping the up or down arrows lots of times to get to the bottom or top of a list. The tapping to get around should not be this hard. Just changing the background to a selected picture took more than 10 minutes.
This is a product with a lot of potential. If it can improve in the area of usability and speed, it can become the next digital photo frame.
Good: Access to various media including photos, news, radio, videos, music on home network. More features than a typical digital photo frame.
Bad: Usability. Ease of connectivity. Slow to get around and load.

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Easy-To-Use Intouch IT7150 Features True Touch Screen, Photo Viewing, Internet Radio, Web TV, & RSS Feed Capabilities. The portable Intouch IT7150 provides users a multimedia window to the world in a comfortable setting without having to be glued to the home office PC. In addition to viewing and sharing photos, the Intouch IT7150 provides more content as a portable multi media player featuring audio and video playback and live Internet radio. Users can play multi-media content from the frame's internal memory, a memory card or by connecting to a PC wirelessly. Through a partnership with vTuner, the Intouch IT7150 includes access to radio stations on the Internet without a subscription fee. Users are also able to add their own individual station favorites, as well as access podcasts and MP3 files. The Intouch IT7150 digital photo frame displays images stored on popular web sites through an Internet content partnership with FrameChannel. Frame Channel is a free web-based tool that lets users select and manage content for their wireless picture frames including content from Facebook, Flickr, Webshots, Picasa, Photobucket and MSN. Additionally, FrameChannel offers over 400 channels of news, weather, traffic and sports content that can be delivered direct to the wireless frame. You can also add any RSS 2.0 feed directly on your frame. Key Features: All touch operation with on-screen QWERTY keyboard Wi-Fi connectivity (embedded WiFi 802.11b/g standard) 7 inch digital 16:9 TFT LCD Display 800 x 480 resolution Wireless RSS 2.0 feed reader Rechargable Battery (1.5 hrs) Internet radio Video/audio/photo playback function Supports: Secure Digital (SD) Card, Compact Flash (CF) Card, Memory Stick (MS), MultiMedia (MMC) Card, XD-Picture card expandable memory Stereo speakers (1W x 2) Headphones or external speaker connection Clock, calendar and alarm One year limited manufacturer's warranty

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