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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quirky - a bargain at 1/3 the price, May 1, 2008
I got this for 1/4 of list price on clearance, and at that price I'd rate it four stars. At list price, though, I would give it only 2.5 stars if I could. Here's what I learned from playing with it:
- Per the Memorex Npower site, its LCD panel is 480x234. This means that most digital camera pictures will be "letterboxed" (blank/black areas present) to the left and right sides.
- This is also a pretty low resolution, which means that you don't have to use your highest-pixel-count images (though the manual says it can handle 12Mpixel ones). Resizing them to 640x480 or similar will look just fine.
- Through experimentation, I determined that the frame can only display up to 1200 different pictures from a memory card (which is plenty, really). I tried a card with 1900+ images on it, and the last several hundred were never shown. Trying to navigate to them in the 9-pictures-at-a-time thumbnail mode caused the frame to crash while trying to go backwards from the very last page (134). (It crashed so hard that the unit forgot the time and date, along with all its other settings.)
- The internal memory works just fine, and at 128MB is a good size, but it's inconvenient to have to tether the frame to a computer to work with it, especially since the frame can't run off batteries. I recommend using a separate memory card.
- The unit handles SD and MMC cards being inserted and removed while it's running gracefully. (I didn't get to try a memory stick.) Given the resolution and maximum file count issues, a 64MB to 256MB card should be all you need - and they're cheap!
- The character animations can be easily disabled from the setup menu, thank goodness, because displaying them along with the photo transitions slows the unit to a crawl. (They're also annoying unless you're a big Spongebob fan.)
- The buttons are laid out strangely on the remote, but it's something you get used to quickly.
- Finally, one of the two units I got had one stuck pixel - always a danger with LCD panels. I wouldn't have noticed it except that it was off to the side in the "letterbox" area - I still barely notice it now.
Overall, if you can find it at the kind of clearance price I got it at, it's a worthwhile impulse buy and would make a fine gift for a tween or for someone who isn't that demanding/tech-savvy. I would think long and hard before buying it at full list price, though - there are probably better frames available, for not too much more.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Buggy at best, December 10, 2008
I got a few of these at 1/5th the list price, and even at that price it's a rip off. The animations are supposed to turn off, but what happens is the unit scrolls through 15 or 20 pictures, then it resets as if you unplugged the power, sits there for a while with a "Loading..." prompt, and plays displays your pictures with cartoon characters scrolling across the screen. There is no support or software updates for it from the manufacturers website either. Buyer beware.
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