Source:  Digital Photo Gadgets Blog

As photo frames go, I have a lots of photo frames for my still pictures.  They are all around the house, in varying sizes and shapes, with single pictures and some holding multiple prints.  I guess that is very much dated now. What with the developments on technology (and Harry Potter novels with the moving images inside the pictures) I guess it would have been a matter of time for a moving image in a photo frame.

My latest photo frame is an 8-inch LCD digital photo frame.  Yup, I thought it was time for a change.  Though I didn’t think that anything smaller than an 8-inch would be worth it.  But it should be noted that there is a significant price difference between a 7-inch digital photo frame and an 8-inch one.  Among other things, my digital photo frame is not battery powered and doesn’t have internal memory.  It comes with a USB port, and slots for SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro/xD type memory cards.  It can run videos but it doesn’t have a sound output jack or built-in speakers.

But, still, the main problem with that model is that it doesn’t run on batteries.  The portability of a photo frame makes it a notch above that of a regular photo frame.  A battery-powered photo frame, can be technically considered a photo viewer.  The first portable photo viewers were only about 3-inch LCD screens and looked like cameras without lenses.  Nowadays, a lot of photo viewers are larger (up to 7-inches) and capable of video and sound.

And recently, Kodak just released the specs for their new digital photo frame.  And it has a 7-inch OLED screen.

The use of the organic light emitting diode (OLED) means that this device would be thinner and use less power.  It also means that for now it would still be a bit more expensive to manufacture.

This will be up for sale November 2008 for $999 from the Kodak.com