D-Link DSM-210 Internet Photo Frame

by D-Link

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8 x 1 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0014B8GR8
• Item model number: DSM-210
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 1, 2008

Product Description

With the D-Link Internet Photo Frame (DSM-210) you get all the benefits of a digital photo frame with the added features and convenience of the Internet. The DSM-210 includes a bright and vibrant 10⿿ screen to view all your favorite photos in resolutions up to 10-Megapixel. Friends and family can upload photos directly over the Internet to your DSM-210 using a simple Web site or with a drag-and-drop desktop widget. You can also keep connected to the latest news, weather, sports, and more using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds from the Internet directly on your Internet Photo Frame.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Frame, I own several!, November 19, 2009

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M. Paolini (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D-Link DSM-210 Internet Photo Frame (Electronics)

Short review:
Best currently on the market (11/2009), I own 2 and am buying more for friends and family. The people with the negative reviews of this product are wonky or worse.

Long Review:
Let me start of by saying that I'm a photo hobbyist. By that I mean I use a Nikon D700, run Lightrooom and Photoshop, upload to Flickr, Facebook, etc. and generally enjoy photos, both my own and other peoples.

I started looking for a digital photo frame a little over a year ago, and in that time I've rolled through several model of several brands including Sony, Toshiba, and D-Link. Here's what I've learned. First you really want a network enabled (ideally Wi-Fi enabled) frame. You want it for 2 reasons. First you want it for loading the pictures to the device, and second you want it pull content from the network or Internet. Both are killer must have features - you really aren't going to keep updating the frame if you have carry it or thumbsticks to and from the computer.

The D-Link supports both. Network setup supports push button WPK, or manual configuration of all types. It also supports a wired ethernet plug.

The D-Link has a drag'n'drop widget for your desktop (Yahoo Widget actually) which connects upto 10 frames (selected by tab). It shows the pictures on the frame cycling automatically, this can be paused. You can step through them forward or backward, and you can delete pictures. To load pictures on the frame you drag the pictures to the widget and they wireless transfer over, I do this a few hundred at a time (basically I output all my tagged my photos from Lightroom at 800x600 into a folder, select all and drag and drop. I have different directories for the 2 different frames (upstairs and downstairs). Simply, quick, easy. No hassle with cables, our devices. So far I haven't seen this feature present in the other frames on the market.

Next the D-link supports pulling content from a local media server on the network (I pass on this because it means you have to have one up and running all the time) or from the Internet, specifically the free FrameChannel service. This service allows you to log-in and configure content sent to your frame from various places - Facebook, Flickr, Smug-Smug, about 200 other preconfigured offering that keep growing, and it allows you to create custom RSS feeds (text or image) as well. More you can say which content gets shown which days of the week, which times of the day, and how often compared to other streams. Yes that is right you can have multiple channels of content available (I've got about 14). One thing that sets the D-Link appart here from the Toshiba which also supports FrameChannel is that on the frame you can select a specific feed channel from the Framechannel configured choices you set up. Toshiba it's all or nothing on rotation. So you want just Facebook, you need to log into the Framechannel with the Toshiba via a browser - D-Link lets you do it via the remote.

FrameChannel also lets you accept email photos (you get an address and you can authorize other addresses for immediate publish or wait for authorization). Configure friends option to share photos, and a whole lot more. This makes it IDEAL for setting up for grandma and updating her photos remotely.

If you are confused about any of the framechannel features, hit their website and do some reading, create an account and play - it's free.

D-Link will also firmware update via the network - when updates are available a menu item appears for download.

Cost wise, Fry's has had these pretty cheap <$200 which is a marvelous price on a 10" frame with these features AND 1 GB of local memory. However they can't seem to keep them in-stock...

The only down side I've seen on these is the colors on the screen are a little flat compared to other offering out there (Sony's is lovely, but also $300 with a weaker feature set), but not enough to cause me to switch my buying preference here given the feature and prices points.

Really for 2009, the D-Link DSM-210 is as good as you can do.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, but has some kinks in execution, September 4, 2008

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M. Bykin (San Francisco, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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Streaming content via web is nice, but there is a limit of 99 pictures on the channel.

The Dlink interface for uploading and managing pictures online is not very good. Picassa desktop software is good, but still not great for the frame, because the web upload doesn't synchronize with the desktop software. I have to figure out what to add/remove/upload.

The local disk on the frame isn't accessible via the home network. So, managing pictures has to be done with the remote, directly on the frame, one picture at a time. This is really annoying. It also can't display pictures directly from a memory stick or SD card. Those pictures need to be transfered to the frame memory... one at a time. There is a Yahoo Widgets software option for moving pictures using the computer to the frame over the home network, but its really funky software, and you have to scroll through the pictures one at a time to manage them, too.

These are all good ideas, but I'm looking forward to the next generation of implementation.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great frame with few cons, September 18, 2008

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S. Neyman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D-Link DSM-210 Internet Photo Frame (Electronics)

D-link is known for their terrible QA department, and this frame is not an exception. Had to RMA the first one I got (not from Amazon), it kept rebooting.

The second one works great. Frame is thin enough to be hung on the wall, very light, the screen is large and bright. Best part of course is the built-in wireless.

Antenna is very strong and I was able to pick up SSIDs from really far away. It took me a little while to get my wireless key to work, but once it works it is rock solid. Framechannel (online streaming of photos) is a good idea, though you are limited to 99 pictures per stream. I don't know why. I am streaming pics from Facebook and Picasa. Picasa is weak, b/c only one album at a time can be selected. Facebook on the other hand works well.

It can also grab pics from NAS. I have not had a chance to try it out yet.

Now on to cons. Frame shuts off after 15 minutes if it does not detect motion with built-in motion detector. Which is cool, but the only other way to shut it off is to physically switch it off on the back. Annoying. Would be awesome if I could shut it off via remote.

Remote is WEAK. It is tiny and signal is not strong enough. No power button on the remote. Basically, remote sucks.

Picture from internal frame or memory cards play only in order. Random play option would've been awesome.

Overall, I still give it 4 stars, as you can live with cons. I hope new firmware version would resolve some of the issues.