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iMate Momento Digital Picture Frame: Wireless, RSS, Wi-Fi

iMate announced the Momento wireless digital picture frame, available in 10.2-inch ($299) and 7-inch ($200) sizes, both with an 800x480 display. You can plug a flash memory card directly into the frame to display its pictures, transfer photos via USB, or send pics to it via Wi-Fi. Plus, the device can communicate with its mother ship, using the Momento Live Online subscription service that lets you upload pics from anywhere.

Momento will also be able to stream picture galleries (such as Flickr) via RSS, forward pictures from your inbox to other Momento Live users, and you can also send photos to the frame from your camera phone. If this really works, it'll slam-dunk that ill-fated eStarling. Both the 10.2-inch Momento100 and the 7-inch Momento70 will be available February 1. No word on the pricing of that Momento Live service, but you get your first month free. – Charlie White

Product Page [Momento Live, via Newlaunches]

9:05 AM on Tue Jan 16 2007
By Charlie White
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elvindeath at 10:09 AM on 01/16/07
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I'll reserve judgement until you review the released product. After that e-Starling debacle, I'm not getting excited about this crap anymore.

For the love of god, all I want is to be able to hook up my Grandma and my mother in law with a photo frame that I can send pictures to directly. Is that so wrong ? Why can't anyone get that right ? It seems so simple to design.

FYI - don't even bother releasing unless it has "replaceable" encasements. Grandma does not have her house decked out like a flat from Logan's Run ... so the metal and translucent white frame won't be cutting it. Give me a way to snap this thing into an Oak frame, please.
Skorgu at 10:16 AM on 01/16/07
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As long as it doesn't require that subscription to work. Needing to pay monthly to use a piece of hardware is a deal-breaker.
castaneda1 at 11:51 AM on 01/16/07
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Too pricey for now...but I'm sure one day they will cost $20 in a Kmart.
skype24 at 01:46 PM on 01/16/07
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Better go for the Parrot photo viewer. Using that via Bluetooth is way more fun than via cable or similar - where are most pics coming from? Cellphones anyhow!
Pixelantes Anonymous at 03:23 PM on 01/16/07
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I'm with you elvindeath.

I just read the information on their website.

If I read it right, it looks like Momento Live is required for all that funky Intertubes stuff to work. And it will cost you a subscription fee. How much exactly, who knows, but if it's more than $.05 / month, I'm not buying.

The first company to create a skinnable digiframe with wifi and all the applications contained within the frame with a web admin interface (just like wireless routers already do) will make a killing.

Please someone, would you make one already?

I could put together a prototype of the sw part of this thing in less than a week (if I worked on it full-time)...everything needed is OSS...it wouldn't even be hard.
jfinegold at 03:31 PM on 02/08/07
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This is a cool product...saw it at CES - check out the predictions for wireless frames by 2010 - woah!

http://wirelesspictureframe.com/2007/02/08/ten-questions-f...