How well do the wireless capabilities of digital photo frames work?

With the launch of iPad* recently there has been a lot of buzz about uploading digital pictures to your digital picture frame wirelessly.

There are a seemingly infinite number of choices when it comes to choosing a digital photo frame and more and more of them seem to claim this ability to wirelessly upload your photos.

(Note: Using a device like the iPad to display photos means this device has to do double duty. The beauty of having a dedicated digital photo frame is that it is DEDICATED. If you don’t have a digital camera picture frame in your home you probably ARE NOT looking at all the wonderful photographs you are taking.)

From the experience with the units we have tested thus far, the wireless capability to send photos to the digital picture frame is not very reliable.  Please don’t think for a second that the functionality of sending photos to your digital photo frame from a web account is going to be as seamless as sending an email. A lot of the frames we have tested at BestDPF.com do not do this very well. That’s not to say that the technology will not soon show up – in our opinion it’s just not here yet.

The advantage of the units from BestDPF.com is that they are beautifully shadowboxed, BUT you can still access the uploading features on the back.

How did we do this? We use our exclusive magnet to metal mounting system. This allows for easy repositioning.

With this feature:

- Simply pull the frame off and insert your flash drive, memory card or USB cable and within minutes upload and organize your photos on your digital picture frame.

For now, at least, this is the superior way of doing things.

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Digital Photo Frame Resolution

* Obviously, we have not tested the iPad functionality as they are not really readily available. Would love any comments if someone gets their hands on one before us. We will obviously check it out ASAP.