Digital Home Thoughts: TrusedReviews Looks at the Parrot Bluetooth Photo Viewer

"The photo frame of the 21st century isn’t a boring, static device that can only show a single picture. The connected home now has a digital LCD photo frame that can display many pictures one after the other. The likes of Sony and Philips have had these sorts of displays out for a while and read pictures from a memory card. Parrot’s frame has no card slots at all - instead you beam your pictures to it via Bluetooth, without any need for cables or cards. It’s an idea that makes a lot of sense. With camera phones megapixel count increasing and their optical ability improving, many people are now taking quite decent snaps. With one of these frames they can beam their pictures directly to the frame and have them display in seconds."



Well, using the frame to display the funky pics I took with my cell phone would, I think, be the very last use I could think of to use a digital photo frame for. We've discussed them here before, and this frame doesn't change my opinion of them: Too small, too expensive, not useful enough. Here's my dream digital photo frame: It's at least 8"x10". It accepts Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and hardline CAT5. I would also love it if (since it's got the wireless capability) it could display web pages. It would be really cool to stream an animation to the frame, or use it to look up TV listings, or just to browse DMT. In other words, I would like it to be a full-featured viewer. Thus far, every offering I've seen has fallen far short of my needs. Oh yeah, and this Parrot Viewer is just plain ugly. :)