Pandigital 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 Interchangeable Frames by Lamorinda Distributing
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Digital camera reviews of Pandigital 7-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 Interchangeable Frames
Digital camera Review: Extremely difficult to use
Summary: 1 Stars
I am writing this review as i am struggling to modify the images on the Pandigital frame we got for my mother. I have been at it for 1.5 hours. this product is extremely difficult to use, and i do not think it received any QA testing whatsoever. For instance, while editing the images, it displays them in pages - 6 images per "page". If you delete an image on page 5 of 12, no matter what action you take next, you are either placed on page 1 or page 12 (or whatever the last page is). Respinse times are slow, the menus are horrible to navigate, and you cannot simultaneously see the screen AND the necessary buttons at the same time. This product should interface to the PC, and let the user use the PC to navigate the local storage. There must be better products out there - it shouldn't be that difficult.Digital camera Review: Fantastic Frame
Summary: 5 Stars
Easy to use and great resolution! Finally, an affordable high quality digital photo frame. The fact that I did not have to purchase additional memory to leave in my frame simply adds to the value. With the 6-in-1 card reader, I was able to download pictures from both of my cameras, each with a different type of memory card! I recommend this item to anyone who wants to view their digital photos easily, without having to touch their PC.Digital camera Review: Find another company
Summary: 1 Stars
If anything goes wrong, dealing with Pandigital 'customer support' is like beating your head against a brick wall. Save yourself frustration and buy something from another brand.Digital camera Review: Fixed the USB problem
Summary: 2 Stars
My wife got one of these for Christmas, and it's not awful. My main complaint is with the USB connection.
The resolution isn't outstanding, but what do you expect for this price? The choppiness other reviewers mentioned is just an artifact of the low resolution.
My computer didn't recognize the USB connection - very frustrating. Their customer support number automatically hing up on me each time I called.
*** I found, however, that if I hooked the frame into an external hub then hooked the hub into my computer, it worked just fine. ***
I wouldn't recommend buying this product due to the poor support and defective USB, but if like me you're stuck with it, use the above fix.
Digital camera Review: Good Digital Frame for the Money -- 3-1/2 stars
Summary: 4 Stars
The good: great price! nice and bright, very easy to use (I barely had to look at the manual.) Pretty much plug and play. (I have a 2-year old Dell PC, Windows XP Professional.) Overall, very satisfactory product. I had no issue about resolution: my photos look fine, just like my flat screen LCD monitor. No issues with direction of view, you can see the photos fine from almost any angle. No trouble with the remote (though it IS tiny.) Loading the photos was a breeze -- just like using a USB memory stick.
The Caveats: really only: the screen aspect ratio is very wide and short -- about the same as a wide-screen movie format (the picture shown on Amazon is a bit deceptive because of the white space around the figures -- it's very wide and short.) Most vertically oriented photos won't work very well. (My guess is they saved money by re-using an existing screen part that was designed for small DVD players.) I did end up re-cropping all the photos before I put them into the frame (after a brief trial run with the original formats.) After re-cropping, I pretty well got what I expected. The frame does not automatically size the photo to fit the frame, like Internet Explorer does and you are likely used to seeing on your computer. I recommend resizing the photos down to where the long (horizontal) dimension number of pixels is about 900, and cropping the vertical axis to make the shape match the frame. Sounds complicated; but I did this with 110 photos in less than an hour.
The Bottom Line: I bought this for my wife and she is thrilled and is enjoying "showing it off" to her co-workers with about 110 family photos on it. It is running at 5-second rate and it takes around 10 minutes to cycle through. We are satisfied with it -- for the price.