Philips is offering a new gift service with its PhotoFrame range of digital picture frames that sees the displays customisable for a more personal gift.

Those buying one of the frames at the Philips Online Shop can use the service - for free - to pre-load images or engrave a personal message on the frame, as well as take up options to bundle in a personalised gift card or have it delivered in a fancy gift box.

The five frames available are made up of one 7-inch model, the SPF2017, and four 8-inchers, the SPF4008, SPF5008, SPF7008 and SPH8208.

All models offer a 800 x 600 resolution display in 4:3 ratio, Philips' imagen Pro and RadiantColor tech, slide-show mode, auto orientation, a minimum of 512MB built-in memory and boast low power consumption.

Three models – the SPF5008/7008 and SPH8208 – get border touch control while the SPF7008 and SPH8208 add Bluetooth connectivity. The SPH8208 also boasts a docking station and a 2-hour rechargeable battery for viewing away from the power plug.

Pricing for the frames range from ?69.99 to ?139.99 while the personalised extras are free.

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Philips offers personalised PhotoFrames originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:49 +0000

The O2 Joggler, the company's connected family-organiser-digi-frame-come-media-hub offering, has seen a dramatic price cut in the UK, suggesting the ?149 the operator was asking for the device was deemed too high by consumers.

The Joggler will now cost ?99.99 and from now on offers internet radio - bringing over 100 radio stations to the device for free - as powered by Pure's radio and media portal The Lounge.

The new addition means the Joggler now offers a calendar, music and video player, photo viewer, as well as news, traffic, weather and messaging options.

O2 is also upgrading the device's software from Flash 8 to Flash 10 and has revealed it will be making an SDK available to developers shortly via O2 Litmus, so they can create downloadable Joggler apps.

Following on from the availability of the SDK, O2 will be launching an application store for the O2 Joggler which is due to go live on the device by the end of the year.

The paid-for apps "could include anything from internet shopping through to video recipes and takeaway food applications", says O2, which clearly has big ambitions for the niche device.

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O2 Joggler sees price cut by a third originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:37:31 +0000

In the States Panasonic has announced the launch of its first audio system with an iPod dock that takes the form of a photo frame.

The mixed-up MW-10 ("the ultimate multimedia solution for den, office, bedroom, dorm room or living room") offers a built-in CD player, FM radio tuner, and a universal dock for iPods and iPhones.

With a 9-inch WVGA LCD, the MW-10 can display photos from a CD, SD memory card and internal memory with transfer from a PC via USB.

It boasts a 4GB internal memory (not bad for a digi-frame) and can display a clock and iPod track menu, calendar and photos, clock and photos, or audio and calendar.

Complete with remote control, Panasonic's MW-10 will be available in December 2009 for $299.95.

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Panasonic launches MW-10 multimedia audio system photo frame originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:09:09 +0000

Parrot has followed up on last year's launch of the designer Parrot Specchio by contemporary French artist Martin Szekely with an even bigger version called, you guessed it, the Grande Specchio.

Packing Google's Android operating system, the 10.4-inch, 26 x 26cm photo frame, like the original, doubles as a mirror when not it use and can be rested on a surface or hung on the wall.

Costing $650 dollars when it goes on sale next week (it will also be hitting the UK although no price confirmed yet), the frame will come with not only the ability to view your favourite images, but stream content from Flickr, and browse the Web with its built in web browser.

Taking the idea of what photos you display on the frame one step further, Parrot is opting to let you embrace the generic photo frame picture to the max by selecting a "People" mode that will automatically search the Internet for a "never-ending slide show of faces of the world". Those not fussed with random people can opt instead for "Holidays", whereby you choose a place on Google Maps and it will then grab a selection of images associated to that place (Slough anyone?).

Beyond photos the frame will come with an email address so you can send it photos to display, Picasa and Flickr support, the ability to stream RSS feeds and Windows Live FrameIT and FrameChannel feeds to the digital photo frame.

A spokesman for the company has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it will be developing further apps for the frame, although doesn't expect popularity to be massive as there is no easy way to get them installed on the hardware.

Connectivity comes in the guise of USB, SD, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, meaning you shouldn't have any problems getting your images on the device's 200MB memory.

Expect an official announcement on 17 November.

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Parrot Android-packing designer photo frame announced originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:46:14 +0000

A new digital photo service has been launched which scans in consumer's photos and sticks 'em on a digi-frame to save the consumer the trouble.

Perfect for the lazy, or technically inept, the Digipix Memories service will scan in up to 100 hard copy photographs to be displayed on a 7-inch digital photo frame.

From Digipix: "Customers simply choose their best-loved printed pictures and post them in a pre-paid envelope provided with the gift pack. Digipix Memories will then transfer these onto an SD memory card and return this - and the photos - back within 10 working days".

The frame offers a remote control and slide show functionality. The entire gift pack costs ?49 - plus P&P - and is available now over at http://www.digipixmemories.com.

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Digipix Memories offers photo scanning and digi-frame gift pack originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:00:46 +0000

Motorola has launched a new range of digital photo frames, including dual display frames and a Wi-Fi model that allows images to be sent directly to the frame by email.

The LS1000W offers a 10.4-inch display, boasts 512 MB built-in memory, MP3 player and speakers, as well as an alarm clock and calendar function.

The ?200 frame gets Wi-Fi connectivity as well as content from the thousand FrameChannel online channels that can be viewed on the device including internet radio.

The ?80 LS420 Duo offers two 4.2-inch displays, one of which can be selected to view calendar and clock info. The LS720D offers the same theory, but larger 7-inch displays as well as MP3 playback, speakers and a remote control for ?130.

Other models include the LS700, a ?50 basic 7-incher and the LS1000 for ?150 that's basically the same as the other 10-incher but minus the Wi-Fi. The new range is available at Argos.

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Motorola launches digi-frames with dual displays and Wi-Fi originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:23:26 +0000

"Oh that's a nice picture" you hear one of your family or mates say when they are around your house looking at a photo on your mantle piece. "Can I have a copy?"

You've then got the hassle of finding that picture, printing it out and then probably sending it to them as the whole process has taken so long they've given up and gone home. Sony is hoping to cut out the waiting with the launch of a digital photo frame with a built-in printer, so you can create and deliver the print there and then.

Sounds great, but is it?

The DPP-F700 sports a 7-inch, 16:10 WVGA screen with a resolution 800 x 480 and can print 4 x 6-inch, 300 x 300 dpi photos in 45 seconds.

The frame, which features a large black boarder offers touch-sensitive controls, that like other frames on the market, appear only on touch, however for some reason Sony has opted to use a different non-gloss material - a matt plastic it seems, which doesn't work.

Controls allow you to navigate through the basic menu system and here you can edit images before printing with options including enlarge, reduce, crop, date stamp on/off, border/borderless as well as brightness, contrast, hue, and sharpness adjustment.

Images can be transferred onto the frame via USB from a PC, and there is an array of memory card slots around the side including support for SD, MMC, Compact Flash and xD.

Failing that, there is 1GB of on-board storage. Storage levels will vary, with Sony boasting 2000 images as a headline grabbing number, but as this is only at a 2-megapixel resolution, expect this number to be around 200 if you're using a 7-megapixel or higher camera.

The DPP-F700 uses dye-sublimation as the printing technology, the print quality was good, not amazing, however they were able to be handled straight away when we played with the printer at a trade show.

The concept is perfect, unfortunately the realisation isn’t. The biggest problem isn't the quality of prints, or the software interface, it's the form factor.

As you might imagine adding a printer into a photo frame will add some bulk to a photo frame. Sony has surprisingly done a pretty good job of hiding this underneath the frame (see pictures) and the end result therefore is that it looks like you've perched a regular digital photo frame on to a box, no problem there.

The problem, however, is that rather than then put the photo paper tray within this box or to the side, it sits rather awkwardly out the front giving the game away that there is a printer hiding inside.

Yes it is detachable, but that's not the point. There is no way you could place it anywhere like a window ledge or mantle piece because of the width of the overall footprint. So you might as well give up on the idea altogether and use a small compact printer.

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Verdict:

In the future, if we are still printing photos, all digital photo frames will have a printer built in. It makes sense, it's a nice idea and we can see why someone at Sony approved the making of the DPP-F700.

However, it seems that "approving person" walked away after they were pitched the idea, as the end result neither looks good or has a form factor that would make it suitable (from our brief play) for where it should live in the living room.

This really is one of those moments where the end result could have been so much better.

The DPP-F700 digital photo frame-printer will be available in the States for about $200 in January.

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Sony S-Frame DPP-F700 digital photo frame - First Look originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Sony has recently announced a new digital photo frame?with a built-in printer, but what does it actually look like in the flesh? Pocket-lint was on hand to snap a photo gallery when it made a quick pit-stop in New York.

The new?Sony digital S-Frame DPP-F700?is an all-in-one device that gets a 7-inch display with an 800 x 480 resolution and can print 4 x 6-inch, 300 x 300 dpi photos in 45 seconds.

The idea is that you'll be able to print out a photo when you get the usual comment of "Oh I love this one, can I have a copy?"

You'll be able to edit the images in frame, meaning you won't have to worry about a PC, however the large form factor and ugly-looking paper tray means this is unlikely to find space on your mantle piece.

The DPP-F700 digital photo frame-printer will be available in the States for about $200 in January.

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PHOTOS: Sony S-Frame DPP-F700 originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:07:28 +0000

Sony has announced the launch of a new multi-tasking digital photo frame - the S-Frame DPP-F700 - that offers a built-in photo printer.

The all-in-one device gets a 7-inch display with an 800 x 480 resolution and can print 4 x 6-inch, 300 x 300 dpi photos in 45 seconds.

The frame allows the user to edit images before printing with options including enlarge, reduce, crop, date stamp on/off, border/borderless as well as brightness, contrast, hue, and sharpness adjustment.

Images can be transferred onto the frame via USB from a PC, with support for Sony's memory card formats as well as SD, MMC, Compact Flash and xD.

Complete with remote control, the DPP-F700 digital photo frame-printer will be available in the States for about $200 in January.

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Sony digital S-Frame DPP-F700 offers built-in photo printer originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:29:18 +0100

Jessops has announced the launch of two new digital photo frames to add to its range in time for the Christmas shopping frenzy.

The own-brand photo frames come in 8-inch and 10.4-inch screen sizes with a black frame and have multi-card slots for SDHC, SD, MMC, CF, MS, XD as well as USB.

Both offer 2GB of internal memory, auto rotate functionality for portrait pics and a "magic window function" that displays multiple images at one go.

Offering a 4:3 display ratio, the frames will also playback video and MP3 music in slideshow mode, as well as boasting a clock with alarm and a calendar.

Complete with remote controls, the new frames are priced at ?99 and ?139 and are available now from stores or online.

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Jessops offers two new digi photo-frames originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:28:01 +0100

HANNspree is tacking the Christmas shopping market from a new angle - an all–in-one Photo Alarm Clock.

Described as "the perfect bedside gadget", as you'd expect it features alarm clock functionality with three alarms and snooze and sleep options, a photo viewer as well as an FM radio and digital music player.

The 4.3-inch colour LCD screen can be set to display seven different clock face styles, a calendar or photos with a slideshow option while USB connectivity means file transfer for photos, as well as MP3 or WAV music files is said to be easy.

The HANNspree Photo Alarm Clock is available now from www.misco.co.uk for ?44.99.

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HANNspree Photo Alarm Clock launches originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:16:21 +0100