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SONY VGF-CP1 digital frame serves up photos

Wed, 2008-05-14 11:42 — tekro
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Name: SONY Canvas Online VGF-CP1
Category: digital photo frame
Price: Open price (about JPY30,000)
Release date in Japan: May 17, 2008

Appearing together with the Liblog Station server is a new digital photo frame companion, the VGF-CP1. It'll wirelessly grab photos from a computer and dish up slideshows, complete with background music, on its 7" screen. SONY claims one touch of a button will connect the screen to your WiFi-networked VGF-HS1, PC, or "SONY Room Link"-enabled device, thanks to simple AOSS (AirStation One-Touch Secure System) configuration. (A little hands-on configuration allows connection to non-AOSS WiFi networks as well.) Internet access to Yahoo! news and Yahoo! weather displays, RSS feeds, and major online photo sharing services are another plus.

Remote content isn't your only choice; the VGF-CP1 will also read and display media fresh from MemoryStick, SD, or CompactFlash cards, as well as USB drives. You can also copy pics into the CP1's internal 100MB memory and let the photo frame take it from there - or even upload from the CP1 to online photo sharing services.

Again, SONY provides a little marketing thought behind the product: Everyone takes digital pictures, but not many enjoy and share them. While 80% of PC users in this digital camera age have photos squirreled away on hard drives or media cards, only 10% get around to frequently enjoying the photos via means such as printing or online sharing. SONY wants to provide its slideshow screen as an easy way for non-technical users to enjoy the photos they take.

Details: 11b/g WiFi, 7" WVGA (800x480) 24-bit "ClearPhoto LCD" screen (16+ million colors), 17.7 x 13.4 x 3.3cm, 530g, black or white. Designed to work with Windows XP/Vista PCs, or the VGF-HS1 home server. Behind the scenes, the CP1 runs Timesys Linux on a 400MHz ARM processor.

More info: http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/CP1/index.html (Japanese)

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