Internet-based digital photo frame

RMI to Internet-based digital photo frame referred to as the "family media player", and as "integration of a number of interactive display device." RMI chief corporate strategy Richard Miller family more stringent media player and summarized as a "do not include the need for keyboard and mouse" type of mass production.

For this new generation of digital photo frame the general expectation is: faster processors (over 800MHz), higher performance graphics with a smooth user interface for the icon, supports a variety of video formats (such as H.264, MPEG -2, VC-1 and Adobe Flash), as well as the widget applications, with a touch-screen, as well as Wi-Fi functionality and real-time operating system (RTOS), in order to speed up the reaction rate.

Manghnani said that several major OEM manufacturers and telecommunications companies also hope that Marvell will support Android platform, which "create an open-source application for a new ecosystem."
Who needs a digital photo frame?

Digital Photo Frame is a new generation of portable products, but do not have the 'mobility'; its design concept is it "placed on the desktop rather than go with", iSuppli senior analyst Sheri Greenspan said. The performance of the device as a result of continued expansion, Greenspan suggested that the "digital picture frame," the name changed to "digital media box."

The question now is whether consumers will accept the new concept and is ready to purchase the product.

Undoubtedly, the photo frame (digital or other forms) is a pride to all grandparents who are fond of small household appliances. But it also combines the advantages and disadvantages: many consumers to the digital photo frame as a family in the retail (food kitchen) area supplies purchased as a gift, or to load photos for display in the study of non-essential items, which can easily be forgotten in the side. Therefore, the frame should not be too complex to allow users to easily set up, or to more easily sell the manufacturer. However, it creates a problem ─ ─ frame for the number of users connected to the Internet functions interested in?

Parks Associates senior analyst Howard Wang estimates that by 2008 sales of digital photo frame, only 3.2% in line with Wi-Fi features, than in 2007 to 4% lower. Wang believes that a drop in this ratio caused by the market environment, the global digital photo frame market last year, the high growth rate may affect the market share of Internet photo frame, and also the impact of depressed market conditions, Internet-based products. "Consumers in the second half of 2008 consumption has also slowed down," Wang said.