Pandigital PAN1502W02 15-Inch Digital Picture Frame

by Pandigital

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 16.2 x 6.2 inches ; 9.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00187FP54
• Item model number: PAN1502W02
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 30, 2008

Product Description

The Pandigital 15-inch digital photo frame has an HD resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels with a 4:3 aspect ratio for all of your photo needs. With a stylish black and espresso wood frame that seamlessly fits into any decor, you can store your JPEG photos, MP3 audio, and AVI video on the internal 512 MB flash memory. Intelligent compression software allows the frame to hold up to 2,000 images without any distortion or cropping done. For even more photos, the frame has a built-in card reader that supports CF I, CF II, SD, MS, MS Pro, MMC, xD, Micro Drive memory cards and USB memory drives. The frame is even Bluetooth and Wi-Fi compatible. It also features stereo speakers, slideshow and single picture display, alarm clock, calendar, headphone jack, and 5-button operation to customize your settings.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning display on this frame, August 5, 2008

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Daniel G. Uckotter "mercury" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandigital PAN1502W02 15-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

OMG!!!! This frame displays a jaw droppingly GORGEOUS picture, I have Brookstone and Sony frames which are good frames, but this Pandigital is in a class all of it's own. The resolution is almost twice tha of my 10" Brookstone. Shots of flowers have amazing color and look so real you can almost reach out and touch them. I just inserted my USB flash with as high as 14 MP images, turned on the frame, and marveled what a nice job this frame does displaying pictures. It's big and bright and has a wide viewing angle.

The only minor gripe I have is you can't completely close the cover over the the card slots if you use a longer sized USB flash drive.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this frame..., November 10, 2008

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Robert Stear - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pandigital PAN1502W02 15-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

This frame is drop dead beautiful, but it turns out to have a fundamental flaw. I bought my PAN1502W02 15" frame in October 2008, loaded up my pictures, and started the slideshow only to find that there is an annoying blue arrow displayed in the lower right of the LCD that never goes away in slideshow mode. Very disappointing for such a high end frame! I called Pandigital and the support line told me that they had "just" discovered this flaw in the firmware programming and that it affects all the PAN1502W02 frames. According the Pandigital, this is a firmware error and they have no planned fix for it nor are they planning to recall the frames that have already been shipped.

If you don't mind the annoying blue arrow over your beautiful photos in slideshow mode, this is a 5 star frame. If you are like me and expect a high end expensive frame like this one to show only your beautiful photos, then it's a 1 star frame and you should save your money. I'm returning mine to Amazon this week.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Digital Frame, January 6, 2009

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Benjamin Jones (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pandigital PAN1502W02 15-Inch Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

January 6, 2009

Disappointing Digital Frame.

Pandigital, and their 15" Photo Frame are each a complete disappointment. In short. 1) the Frame has very limited horizontal and vertical viewing angles; 2) a blue "forward" arrow unfortunately graces the lower right corner of every displayed picture; 3) images that you load into the frame appear in a random and uncontrollable sequential viewing order regardless of the storage media used; 4) glass covering the screen is highly reflective and creates a mirror affect; 5) the owner's manual is severely lacking good for instruction or direction; and 6) Pandigital's technical support staff isn't overly helpful and is somewhat cavalier in their attitude. On the positive side the image quality, if you are looking directly at the center of the screen, is great. A more detailed explanation follows:

First, for starters the horizontal angle of view is so narrow that only two (2) people standing shoulder-to-shoulder can view the screen without loss of brightness and image quality. Overall the angle of view is less than 60d - compare that to most computer monitors at 125-150d and flat screen LCD TV's at upwards of 170ds.

Second: the vertical lines of view are more narrow than the horizontal ones. Using a wall mount, and positioning the center of the frame at exactly 60" (5'-0"), a person six feet tall will see good brightness and image quality, while any person 5'3" (whose eye-line center point is only 2" below the centerline of the screen) [or shorter] will experience a loss of brightness and see images that are dark along the top edge. Using the frame's brightness adjustment alleviates some of this problem, but ultimately sacrifices image quality with a washed-out look to do so.

Third: A green forward ¡ú arrow appears on-screen at all times. It is located within the lower right quarter of the screen and never disappears from view. Upon contacting Pandigital technical support, Pandigital says that they are aware of the software, "flaw"(their exact words) and they "might" issue an update someday.There recommendation: somewhat cavalier - buy one of their other frames (none of which came in the same 15" size or larger) that does not have that problem.

Fourth: Image order: The Digital Photo Frame will not play pictures in the order that you load them. For example, and to be very simplistic, if you have fifty (50) images that you would like to display in chronological / numerical order (IE:1, 2, 3, 4, 5-10,11,12,13-50) and you save them to any one of the frames accepted memory devices such as a flashcard or USB thumb drive in precisely that (1-50) order, the Pandigital Frame will load them in a random sequence and then play them in the order in which the frames software loaded them. This order might be: 2, 6, 19, 41, 34, 50, 6 etc. This random recognition of the contents on a memory card was consistently inconsistent. To comparison test Pandigital's file recognition, I loaded the images onto both an SD card, and USB flash drive. When inserted into the frame each memory device, stored with the same 50 images, in the same file order, came up on the Pandigital screen in a different sequence. When inserting the respective memory devices into another computer or camera the images appeared correctly in the order that were stored. Bottom line Pandigital 15" Frame will not play a side show displaying your photos in the order in which you would like them displayed. (Note: The frame does not have a way to rotate or switch image order.)

Fifth: Glass covering the screen: The glass and matt board that cover the screen create a nice visual affect, yet the "standard" glass is highly reflective and creates a lot of glare. Couple the glass with screen resolution that is not very bright and narrow angles of view and you get a much deepened mirror effect that challenges your eye to not become distracted by reflective background images and movement; thus staying focused on the photo display can be challenging.

Overall: I would like to view my photographs: 1) in the order that they were taken and in the order that tells a story - NO CAN DO; 2) I would like more than one person to enjoy looking at the pictures at a time AND to see really good quality images - NOT WITH THIS FRAME; 3) I would like to see only the pictures on the screen without a pause symbol or forward arrow - (a genuine design flaw) NOT THIS FRAME; and 4) I would like the picture frame to display pictures and not see the reflection of my face in the glass. I truly cannot recomend this digital frame.