Customer Reviews

GPX 7-inch Digital Picture Frame

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

THis is a fairly new product to the GPX lineup, and it is listed as a new item in the GPX website. I had received this for my birthday recently, and so far so good. This model has just about everything you can on it for a frame. It has MP3/Mpeg capability for playing short movies and music. It also has stereo sound. This model does not feature a mosaic view (A rotating 3 photo view ) during the slide show like a couple of other frames I looked at (westinghouse, polaroid), but the price is about $30-40 cheaper, and its harder to see the pictures in mosaic anyway. One fact I can't get it the Display pixels. I am guessing it is 480 x 234 and may be based off of their 7" portable DVD player with this resolution, but it is still decent and on par with others. There are more expensive 7" frames that have 480x360 or 640x480, but you will pay for it (around $60-100 more). This has the three interchangable frames (silver, black, Maroon). Perfect for the office. Check it out, hard to beat value wise. It takes SD,XD and Memory stick, but does not take compact flash cards.

I purchased this as a gift for someone after a lot of research. There really is no product in it's class except for a couple from coby, westinghouse, and polaroid. The polaroid and westinghouse do not have MP3 capability, but do have mosaic feature (3 picutes displayed and rotated simultaneuosly). As for the GPX and Coby, both have stereo speakers, and capabilities to play MP3's. This GPX can not do Compact Flash, but can read SD,MM,XD, and Memory stick. Howevert his has 3 frames, red, black, and silver frames, which are about 10-15 dollars extra features if bought separately. The photos are as clear as they can be with 480 x 234 resolution standard. I was happy to present this as a gift, and the person is not dissapointed, and I am actually a bit jelous, and may get one for myself soon. Check this out, a good frame.

When I started loading photos onto this frame, I noticed that everyone looked like they had put on a few pounds. The frame was defaulted to 16:9 mode, and most of my photos were 4:3, so I changed the frame to 4:3. Of course, all of my photos (even the the 16:9 wide ones) showed up with vertical bars on both sides of the screen, and also with the people now looking too thin.

I finally figured out that I could get a perfect image if I set the frame to 16:9 mode but then squeezed all of my images to 75% horizontally and then resized them to 480 pixels tall. So, my normal 4:3 photos have to be 480x480, my portrait 3:4 photos have to be 270x480, etc. And after all of this squeezing and resizing, the photos look perfect when displayed in the frame. But that's way too much work.

The picture frame itself was nice as you could change the color of
the frame with 3 different color frames included but the quality of
the picture was not good and could not be adjusted (not that I could
find anyway). I ended up returning it and am looking for a better
quality one.

The directions are practically nonexistent. I have not been able to figure out how to store photos on this device. I believe you have to go out and buy a memory card and insert it in the slot on the bottom or else you have to keep your camera connected, by a USB cable, if you want to view pictures. The frame would not accept my cameras ScanDisk Smart Media card either. Photos are also distorted in 16:9 ratio and too small in the 4:3 ratio, with side bars taking up most of the frame.
The frame is capable of acting as an alarm clock. However it is not convenient to use unless you want your alarm going off every morning. Too many steps to turn off the alarm function, not convenient at all. I would bring this back had I not received it as a gift.

I was very disappointed with this photo frame. I, and others who know more about technology than I do, were unable to get the pictures to repeat. I called techno support and they had to call me back because the representative was not certain what to tell me to do. When he returned the call, it was not helpful at all. I had been waiting for this gift to myself. I am a teacher and wanted to start off my new school year with this frame on my desk to look at loved ones throughout the day. I'm returning it. The manual is not helpful at all and I just could not get what I needed to make the frame do anything. The remote control was a joke. I could not tell if it was on or not. I would not recommend this frame and I really wanted to.

This frame is tiny, the resolution is terrible, and it takes about 4 or 5 tries to get it to see the memory card. I got this with credit card reward points - had I paid for it, I would send it right back.

Skip it - spend a few more dollars and get something you will be happy with.

Ok, first issue. The product documentation doesn't tell you that it has 16mb of internal memory. That part got me, as i ordered SD cards for it. With that being said, considering 1gb sd card can hold a bunch of photos and music, and for only 9 bucks, it was a no brainer upgrade, especially considering the price of the unit. Comes with all 3 frames, where if you buy this at target in the store it is the same price for only one frame. I took the advice of the other reviews and tried to crop my photos before loading them. That was a waste of time, as for me the images raw untouched viewed better than training to merge them to the frames resolution. Both of the people i bought these for are very happy with them. Good options for them to scroll photos, etc. Great price and product, would buy again!

I find it hard to believe that this frame does not display a standard photo with the appropriate letterboxing to keep it from being distorted. My 4x3 photos don't even show properly in the 4x3 view. I saw other people's reviews that suggested resizing the photos so they would display correctly. That is an incredible amount of trouble to go through and that's if you know how to do it (which I do). There should really be an option to turn expansion to the size of the frame off.

After reading reviews on a lot of frames I settled on this one and was not disappointed. Took other reviewers advice and set my photos to around 480 x 240, or thereabouts, before loading them and once in the frame they displayed fine. Don't expect crystal clear resolution, but the frame shows much better then my computer did at that resolution. Really not bad at all and when you take the price into acccount, with the extra frames included and the internal memory, I'd consider this one a "best buy" amongst the reasonable priced frames if you don't want to spend $200 or more.