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Why we love our digital photo frame

By Jason Slater in Reader

Posted in Gadgets on November 29, 2007 at 4:57 pm

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Dusty cupboards, spider filled lofts, coffee stained photo albums, unopened boxes from yester-years house move, and buried under the coffee table. That’s where you’ll probably find most photographs. I know ours used to be. Not anymore though. Not since ‘it’ arrived. Picking up on Simon Brew’s Blog post “Should we declare war on the digital photo frame?”, in July, I thought I would explain why we love our digital photo frame.

In fact, ‘it’ is the only technological development that’s got my partner any near being remotely interested in technology (excluding of course Sky+). ‘It’ is of course our digital photo frame which is now 6 months old. My partner loves our digital photo frame and can often be found uploading new pictures to the memory stick - a feat that would never have even been considered prior to its arrival. I got nowhere with an iPod, a PDA lasted about a week and even the mobile phone was only used for calls and texting – but the digital photo frame – that’s different – that changed everything. The knock on effect has been that she has also started using her laptop which used to gather dust in the cupboard, the 3 mega-pixel camera in her mobile phone is also in regular use. She even asked me the other day if she could Bluetooth photos direct from her phone to her laptop. What? Have I moved to Stepford? This person previously shunned technology and now I have to check my facts on the Internet. Wow.

So now we now have all (literally thousands) of our photos nicely scanned in, copied to a memory stick (that cost less than a fiver) and they are all appearing on a sideboard in our living room at 10 second intervals. It’s always a good feeling to look back at old photographs and sometimes we even switch the TV off to watch the pictures go round – bearing in mind the sheer number of channels on TV these days and the very little watchable content then anything that’s an alternative has to be a good thing - especially since the kids have arrived. They love it too and can often be found fiddling with (fighting over) the remote control to get their picture with granny or gramps up on view

Our 10” digital photo frame has become something of a talking point for family and friends who often find themselves popping up in pictures - so much so that digital photo frames have become very much a must have item on family and friends Christmas lists. We are even planning to get a second one. Plus it’s an added bonus to know we’ve got a backup of all our beloved photographs in a safe place (other than Snapfish) that can be grabbed at a moments notice should an emergency occur.

Our digital photo frame also plays music so it has all our sentimental music tracks and audio recordings of the kids ready for playback. It also supports video – something we are really hoping to take advantage of when we get our digital camcorder this year. So if like us you have your photos in a dusty pile or locked away somewhere in a rarely used photo album then I would really recommend a digital photo frame.

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Comment by Sharon Stringer - December 1, 2007 on 8:26 pm

I agree! digital photo frames are great for getting old photos out of dusty old albums and seen again.

Comment by Thomas Allen - December 3, 2007 on 9:16 am

The price of these things have dropped massively and they are also becoming available in everyday shopping places, instead of only being available in specialist stores.

Comment by Jason Slater - December 3, 2007 on 12:25 pm

Thanks for the comments. That’s a good point about the price and availability Thomas - I have seen the 7″ versions available for less than fourty pounds in some stores in the UK. Jas.

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Comment by frame - February 19, 2008 on 12:41 am

Verizon is about the only place you can get the authentic RIM product and matching door. Most other sites are out of stock and even when they are in stock they have the black battery door which looks like crap. http://www.batteryfast.co.uk/digital-photo-frame/
I tested this camera for a client. I didn’t have the light running for more than 15 minutes. The battery lasted approximately 6 hours before recharging. The LCD, however, had a few dead pixels - never saw this before. Tried returning for exchange and had to put up quite a fight. Anyone else seen this? http://www.batteryfast.com/digital-photo-frame/
:)

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