Digital Foci’s got a neat-looking new product, the Photo Book. The device is basically a portable digital picture frame, with an 8-inch screen, 4GB of memory, 2.5 hours of battery life, and support for all kinds of memory cards and photo and music files. What it doesn’t have is WiFi.
While no doubt a useful product in this incarnation, I suspect it would be even more useful with a network connection. As services like Flickr and PhotoBucket – and later FrameChannel – have proved, people want to be able to share their photos over the web. That functionality would be especially cool on a portable device like the Photo Book. Wouldn’t it be neat to get new photos streamed right to your backpack?
I suspect part of the reason for not including a network connection in this device is to keep cost down and battery life up, which are both valid concerns. I hope, though, that when Digital Foci looks to create Photo Book 2.0, they add in WiFi – it’ll be an even greater product.
On InformationAppliance: Digital Foci Photo Book Needs WiFi | Digital Picture Frames wrote at March 27th, 2009 at 10:41 am
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