LG has announced a new digital photo frame for Indian consumers. The F8010N photo frame comes in an all-black glossy design and allows users to share pictures on its 8-inch display 800×600 resolution display.

F8010N supports wide variety of picture formats like JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, JPEG RAW along with the option to play them as a slideshow or transform it into a digital clock, alarm or even a calendar.

Additionally, the frame is bundled with a remote control to wirelessly control the images, has 2GB internal memory and USB port to directly transfer images from the digital camera to the frame.

F8010N is retailing in India for Rs.8,990.

For those who love sharing their memories digitally, Sony India has introduced a new digital frame in the market. The DPF-X95 digital photo frame will display your pictures on its 9-inch LED backlit WVGA screen. What’s more is that it comes with a 2GB built-in memory that can hold up to 4,000 images, memory card support, USB port, accelerometer to orient the image horizontally or vertically, slideshow, clock and calendar functions.

DPF-X95 will sell for Rs. 11,990.

Sony has added another dimension to the generally bland digital photo frames. The DPP-F700 photo frame features a 7-inch WVGA (800×480) display to view pictures and additionally, an integrated printer, just in case you want a particular photo instantly. The printer can print up to 4×6-inch photo at 300dpi resolution in under 45 seconds.

The frame also allows to adjust various settings like enlarge, reduce, crop, and brightness, contrast, hue and sharpness before hitting the print button. Creative Print mode brings in 30 different templates for users to make a picture calendar or a screen capture mode that prints exactly what is displayed on the screen during a slideshow.

As for storing capability, it comes with a gig of internal memory and pictures can transferred via USB or from memory cards including Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick PRO Duo, Secure Digital (SD), SDHC, Multi-Media Card (MMC), Compact Flash and xD-Picture Card.

The DPP-F700 photo frame will be available in January next year for about $200.

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A forecaster ringed us today to tell that most of the future gadgets will run on Android. And heck, his prophecy is already turning true! After being ported to netbooks, Android is now integrated on a digital photo frame. Fujitsu and Macnica jointly developed this frame and are currently exhibiting at 12th Embedded Systems Expo (ESEC2009). The frame in its original sense is showing a software for home network based on Android and is also known as Software Platform for Home Network Digital Photo Frame.

The commercialization of the platform or even the gadget is not in sight but the duo successfully managed to showcase a slideshow on a DLNA network. The digital frame was powered by an ARM based Marvell PXA310 chip.

[Techon via Engadget]

Taiwanese company LiteOn IT has decided to shed its OEM route for digital frames and come out with its own brand. Under the brand name Skyla, LiteOn will now be selling Memoir, a digital frame with a built-in scanner. The scanner helps to digitize old hard copy photos (no larger than 4 by 6 inches) and view them onto the digital frame or store on its memory.

The digital frame’s specification include an 8-inch screen with a resolution of 800×400 pixels, 1GB internal memory and expandable via a slew of memory cards. Scanning resolution goes up to 600dpi and is done with a touch of button placed below. It also has 2 USB ports to use it with PC or to backup scanned photos.

LiteOn expects it to sell it just in time before Christmas with a price tag of $220.

[Via Gearlog]

Asus unveils a digital frame which is somewhat different than the rest of the pack. The UFOTO UF735 digital frame sports a crisp 7-inch display capable of handling different image formats from various storage cards, has integrated speakers and has the revolutionary sub-display feature. In other words, the digital frame can work as an extended display. It was unveiled at a trade show in Taiwan and as per the makers; it has claimed a prestigious RedDot 2008 award.

[Via Akihabaranews]