Everything You Should Know About Digital Photo Frames

Digital picture frames is a new generation of portable products, but which doesn’t mean its “mobility”, “placed on the desktop rather than in pocket”, said Sheri Greenspan, the Senior Analyst of iSuppli. Due to its Continuous extension on function, Greenspan suggested changing the name of “digital picture frames” to “digital media box”.

However, problem is, will customers accept the new concept, and buy them? It’s not doubt that the frame (digital or any other forms) is one type of home-based products which is loved deeply by parents. Meanwhile that combines the prons and cons of the frame: people like to buy these gadgets via grocer as a gift, then take them as Non-essential items by placing them in study room after uploading pictures, forgetting them. Therefore, there’s no need to add very complicated function to a frame, so as to set the function conveniently for users and easy to sale for manufacturers. But how many people who really care for the function of linking to network?

Howard Wang, the Senior Analyst of Parks Asscoiates, Estimated that only 3.2% of digital picture frames sale in 2008 are built in wi-fi function, lower than 2007 by 4% or more. Wang thinks that’s because of the market situations, the global increase rate of digital picture frames market along with depressed market conditions may impact on the percent of frames built in wi-fi, “also people cut their consummation of digital picture frames in the second half of 2008”

Parks Associates’s research also shows another important point: 69% of U.S. users in 2007, received a digital picture frame as a gift. This is a good news: It can be expected a certain amount of sales Growth, and unlikely to be refunded even if those who receive the gift was not quite satisfied with the product. But the negative side is the gift may get out of eyes after received. a chip supplier added that 40% of consumers never used the digital picture frames since received by plugging the cable to the power, quoted from a market research..

To make matters worse, most of users admitted that they feel confused and difficult to download pictures to a digital picture frames. Despite that you can make it via just a SD Card, “but still people thinks it’s annoying to download a picture at first, said Tomlin from Chumby. So, the key use for a wifi built-in frames should be “share your pictures” via internet.

But this may add more confusion and frustration to users, Wang warned.

One report point that poor quality digital picture frames may met problem when dealing with different types of wifi router. However, for users who have a home network, it is still not a simple straightforward process even via a high-quality picture frame.

In addition, there is the possibility of network paralysis due to power outage, “How to move a digital picture frame? How to restart it again? For elderly users, this is simply a nightmare,” Wang said.