a digital picture frame gift

Parks Associates study has shown that the company's another important result: 69% of U.S. users in 2007, received a digital picture frame as a gift. This brings some benefit: it can be expected a certain jump of sales, even if those who receive the gift was not quite satisfied with it. But the negative side is: a chip supplier to quote a market research showed that 40% of consumers never received the gift of digital photo frame electric plug.

To make matters worse, the general admitted that the consumers on how to load the photo frame is confusing and difficult. Despite a solid-state as long as the memory card into the back of the digital photo frame will be able to download the photos, "but people are pre-loaded picture is still troublesome," Chumby company said Tomlin. Therefore, Internet-based digital photo frame is the killer application through the network "sharing photos", Tomlin said.

However, this may be greater for users of the confusion and frustration, Parks Associates company warned Wang Road.

According to a report that the poor quality of the digital photo frame is sometimes unable to deal with different types of Wi-Fi router. However, users have a home network, even the configuration of a high-quality photo frame is not a simple straightforward process.

In addition, there is a caused by power outage caused by the network the possibility of paralysis, "How do Mobile Digital Photo Frame? How to start it enforced? For elderly users, this is simply a nightmare," Wang said.

This may explain why the cellular companies will be able to directly insert a digital photo frame to the 3G data card to seek business opportunities.

RMI's Miller said, "Telecom companies have resolved the major issues online. Compared to the digital photo frame is connected to the family of Wi-Fi router practice, and now, consumers do not type the WEP password." However, the shortcomings of this approach is "the high cost and low bandwidth."

Digital Photo Frame in the United States market, Kodak seven products currently available models, two of which have Wi-Fi function. Internet-based sales of digital photo frame is not as "the company's product line of other products, because the wireless frame is still evolving," the company's business product manager for Digital Photo Frame Jack Rieger said.

California, a rapidly growing company Pandigital Digital Photo Frame is a development to take another route. In its 22 products, 17 have already have a ready-to-use networking capabilities, consumers only need a wireless adapter (dongle) plugged into the USB slot frame. The company also offers a built-in wireless transceiver wireless adapter without the 10.4-inch Digital Photo Frame.

"According to our national survey conducted in October last year, only 6% of the wireless features demanded by consumers," Pandigital company said CEO Dean Finnegan. "Consumers believe that there is no need for this additional functionality."