Sony announces VAIO CP1 Wi-Fi Photo Frame
By Emily Price
Sony has unveiled the VAIO CP1 Wi-Fi photo frame. The frame allows users to stream pictures in real-time from their PC directly to the photo frame allowing them to easily share their photos and memories with others.
The photo frame is 7 inches in size, with an 800 x 480 frame. The frame can connect to Sony’s Picasa, and users can view up to four of their Sony Picasa web albums simultaneously.
You can set up your pictures in the frame to work in slideshow form, flow (where you can add special effects between pictures), or dissolve where each photo will gradually fade into the other.
The frame has a built in RSS reader that can display news headlines along with your photographs, and can play MP3s and streaming radio as well. The frame has a light sensor as well that adjusts to the light in the room to dim when the lights are off, and brighten when it needs to be seen in an already bright room.
If you don’t want to send your pictures wirelessly to the frame the frame can also read pictures off SD cards, CompactFlash, and Sony Memory sticks. The frame also has 129MB of internal memory where you can store pictures and audio files.
The VAIO CP1 will be available in October at an MSRP of $300. That price tag is a little high for a photo frame this size, but the wireless connection to the frame is definitely attractive. Although I don’t really have much of an issue transferring pictures to a flash card that I want to display in my frames.
How many of you would purchase a wireless digital photo frame? Is the ease of sending pictures wirelessly what sells this frame to you? What features would you like to see in a wireless photo frame?
[via Electronista]
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