Intouch IT7150 7-Inch Wireless Internet Frame

by Intouch

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.6 x 7 x 9 inches ; 2.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001HN5HOS
• Item model number: IT7150
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 1, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer Keep connected and in touch with the current events of the day and the treasured family memories of the past. The Intouch IT7150 wireless Internet frame seamlessly transfers digital content from the PC or internet to a portable touch screen frame making it easy to view and share photos, listen to live Internet radio or WEB TV and receive the latest news on favorite hobbies in a comfortable home setting. Digital photo frames have been hot for a while, but the Intouch IT7150 is the first wireless Internet frame to combine multimedia content on an all touch screen, making it the most versatile and easy to use frame on the market today.

Easy-To-Use Intouch IT7150 features True Touch Screen Photo Viewing, Internet Radio, WebTV, RSS Feed Capabilities RSS Feed Capabilities The wireless Intouch IT7100 provides you a multimedia window to the world in a comfortable setting without having to be glued to the home office PC. In addition to viewing and sharing photos, the Intouch IT7100 provides more content as a portable multi media player featuring audio a nd video playback and live Internet radio.

Easy-To-Use Intouch IT7150 Highlights

	You have the flexibility to view photos with a memory card, but isn't that so yesterday? Instead connect your frame to a networked PC via your wireless network. Friends and family can also add photos and content directly to the frame, using the world wide web, making it fun for everyone to stay up-to-date even over long distances. With a free subscription to FrameChannel, a web-based content provider, you can also access and share photos stored on your favorite photo websites like Facebook, Flickr, Webshots and Picasa, so even grandma can view the latest photos of the grandkids without ever touching the PC. FrameChannel also offers over 400 channels of news, weather, traffic and sports content that you can select personally and have automatically delivered to your frames Access to more content Update content remotely
	Touch Screen is an intuitive user interface that’s like a familiar stranger that you know you’ve never met, but there’s this captivating connection. There’s no anxiety, no discomfort and using it comes natural. If you like the feeling of being in command, Touch Screen is the way to go. This latest technological breakthrough empowers you to bring features to life while having fun. Easy to set up Easy operation Easy text input through on-screen QWERTY keyboard
	Power up your Intouch IT7150 with versatility and attitude. Your IT7150 comes equipped with a universal input power adaptor cord for whenever you feel like powering up. Don’t need the hassle of a cord? Your digital picture frame also comes with its own rechargeable battery. You and your loved ones often time desire portability. Well, rechargeable batteries offer the family this flexibility. No longer glued to your home PC Complete freedom on where to watch No dangling cords
	We’re pleased to say that the IT7150 comes with a level of sophistication that’s incomparable to yesterday’s conventional static picture frames. Think of your IT7150 as an old friend with a new face. We’ve leveraged the latest technology to bridge the gap between the millennial generation and beloved Golden agers. This picture frame does not only lets you enjoy your snap shots but also allows you to keep in touch with news, sports, weather and more. Even popular websites like Facebook, Flickr and Picasa are brought to you on the frame. Would you like to play some music while you watch? No problem, this frame does it all. Crystal clear photos Stay up to date with past memories Get weather, news and sports updates through FrameChannel Update on the internet or PC Play music in the background
	Experience radio from all over the world with unlimited choices of internet radio stations. Whether it is your favorite local internet radio station or music from the other side of the world, whether you are in to classical music or hip hop, with over 13,000 channels you can keep exploring. Listen to local and far away radio stations Over 13,000 internet radio stations Over 8,000 podcast stations No subscription fees
	Web TV or also called Live Internet TV is becoming increasingly popular. No matter what geographical market you are in, you can experience video from all over the world. The stations range from reputable TV stations to obscure niche oriented stations. Have fun exploring. Watch local and far away TV stations Over 850 Web TV stations No subscriptions fees
	The Intouch frame comes pre-programmed with commonly used news sources with the option to add personalized feeds, based on your unique lifestyle and news preferences. You simply type in your favorite RSS news feeds on the frame’s soft QWERTY touch screen keyboard and you have access to a plethora of digital information at your fingertips without having to be confined to the home office. Stay up to date with headline news and more Set up personalized RSS feeds

Product Description

Easy-To-Use Intouch IT7150 Features True Touch Screen, Photo Viewing, Internet Radio, Web TV, & RSS Feed Capabilities. The portable Intouch IT7150 provides users a multimedia window to the world in a comfortable setting without having to be glued to the home office PC. In addition to viewing and sharing photos, the Intouch IT7150 provides more content as a portable multi media player featuring audio and video playback and live Internet radio. Users can play multi-media content from the frame's internal memory, a memory card or by connecting to a PC wirelessly. Through a partnership with vTuner, the Intouch IT7150 includes access to radio stations on the Internet without a subscription fee. Users are also able to add their own individual station favorites, as well as access podcasts and MP3 files. The Intouch IT7150 digital photo frame displays images stored on popular web sites through an Internet content partnership with FrameChannel. Frame Channel is a free web-based tool that lets users select and manage content for their wireless picture frames including content from Facebook, Flickr, Webshots, Picasa, Photobucket and MSN. Additionally, FrameChannel offers over 400 channels of news, weather, traffic and sports content that can be delivered direct to the wireless frame. You can also add any RSS 2.0 feed directly on your frame. Key Features: All touch operation with on-screen QWERTY keyboard Wi-Fi connectivity (embedded WiFi 802.11b/g standard) 7 inch digital 16:9 TFT LCD Display 800 x 480 resolution Wireless RSS 2.0 feed reader Rechargable Battery (1.5 hrs) Internet radio Video/audio/photo playback function Supports: Secure Digital (SD) Card, Compact Flash (CF) Card, Memory Stick (MS), MultiMedia (MMC) Card, XD-Picture card expandable memory Stereo speakers (1W x 2) Headphones or external speaker connection Clock, calendar and alarm One year limited manufacturer's warranty

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Souped up Digital Photo Frame That Lacks Usability, June 6, 2009

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Meryl K. Evans "Content Maven behind meryl.net" (Plano, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intouch IT7150 7-Inch Wireless Internet Frame (Electronics)

(What's this?)

This goes beyond the electronic photo frames that have been popular for a few years. The Intouch is a multimedia picture frame that can play music and videos as well as display pictures. It can connect to your home network and the Internet. You can also save your media to a card and plug it into the frame, which is probably the easiest way for most people to use the Intouch.

Connecting to the network takes a lot of work and it will confuse the average computer user. I spent a few hours trying to make it work and gave up. Then I tried it again and it connected. The trick is to allow sharing through Windows Media 11 on your computer.

Accessing the Internet news and radio work well once you get the frame connected to your home network. Connecting the frame to the home network is no different than connecting a computer to the home network. Once connected, you can tap your way to news, Internet radio, podcasts and Web TV (but I couldn't get this one to work).

Now tapping is another story, which is one reason this gets a lower score. It takes too much work to tap and scroll down lists. The screen isn't very sensitive and the scrolling requires tapping the up or down arrows lots of times to get to the bottom or top of a list. The tapping to get around should not be this hard. Just changing the background to a selected picture took more than 10 minutes.

This is a product with a lot of potential. If it can improve in the area of usability and speed, it can become the next digital photo frame.

Good: Access to various media including photos, news, radio, videos, music on home network. More features than a typical digital photo frame.

Bad: Usability. Ease of connectivity. Slow to get around and load.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made my parents very happy, March 30, 2009

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Mary (Macon, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intouch IT7150 7-Inch Wireless Internet Frame (Electronics)

I bought the IT7100 for myself and loved it so much that we decided to give the IT7150 to my parents. I am glad that I upgraded them to the IT7150, they seem to like the build in rechargeable battery feature a lot. They said they look forward settling in on the couch and watch the new pictures of their grandson Bill. I try to upload new pictures at least once a week, and they love it. My dad also loves the internet radio feature, he is a big jazz fan and he found some really cool stations. The unit is easy to use probably because of the touch screen. My parents are not that good with electronics but they seem to have no problem with the Intouch.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice Digital Photo Frame; Poor Implementation of Everything Else, July 23, 2009

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Jacob Hantla "hantla.com" (Chandler, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intouch IT7150 7-Inch Wireless Internet Frame (Electronics)

(What's this?)

The screen on the Intouch IT7150 shows crisp photos. There are lots of options for cycling rates and transitions. Loading photos through the memory card reader and placing it on a slow cycle rate makes for an unobtrusive and aesthetically pleasing frame. There are quite a few lower-cost frames that do the exact same thing.

The special features of this frame are what are supposed to set it apart. It has internet connectivity, so it is able to show photos from facebook, flickr, and many other internet sites. The interface for setting this up is cumbersome, extremely difficult to understand, and very minimally customizable. I am well above average in my ability to understand and use electronic devices, especially if they make use of the internet, and after a few hours I was so frustrated with the internet photo features of this internet frame that I simply won't use them. I load my photos on a memory card and stick it in the back. The inconvenience of using the internet to display photos, renders this feature unusable for me.

Radio: There are a wide number of free internet radio stations at this time (recent recording industry agreements may severely limit the number of stations broadcasting free internet radio) which this frame takes advantage of. Navigation through these stations is relatively easy, especially if you are familiar with the names of the stations and know what you're looking for. The frame can also play mp3s. So it can double as a simple sound system. Plug it into your stereo and you have a simple portal for digital media. Not an extremely robust system, but it works if you have no better options.

Video: Poor playback quality, difficult to find anything you'd want to watch anyway. There are not near as many tv stations as there are radio on the internet and the tv stations that do exist, you pretty much wouldn't want to watch. So this feature for me, after playing around with it, is not going to be used.

News: The user is able to view onscreen text versions of the news with a few photos. Pretty slow navigation. I think this feature is more gimmick than useful. If you have a computer, read it on there. If not, watch tv or read a paper.

Overall: I feel that this frame does photo display from a memory card well. It does photo display from the internet well, only after long interaction with a very poor backend system. The rest of the features are more-or-less gimicks. I'd recommend, unless you will really take advantage of the radio/mp3 feature, that you just buy a frame with fewer extra features that can display photos just as well...save some money.