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Snap happy with the Toshiba Tekbright photo fame

// July 27th, 2008 // Tech // 13,603 views

As some of you may know (and I think I mentioned this a few times) I recently got married and as with all weddings and honeymoons one tends to accumulate a bus-load of pictures.

With almost 4000 honeymoon pictures (between the two of us) and another 3000 or so from the wedding (professional and friends) it gets a bit tricky to show them off to friends, family or the cats without someone going numb from hours in front of the laptop. Obviously we cannot print out all of the pics and keeping them stored on DVD and hard-drives don’t do them justice at all.

So what does one do? For starters, invest in a digital photo frame and more spesifically the Toshiba Tekbright Photo Frame.

Kudos to Dror, our wedding photographer pictured in this image.

I got one a while ago and it’s been quite a providential addition to our snap-happy lives. Not only do they allow us to quickly and easily show off our favourite pictures but it also means that we can now display quite a large number of pictures on rotation, instead of just one in a single photo frame.

The black frame shows off the pictures rather nicely and what more can one ask for than touch-sensitive buttons (with blue LEDs no less). One thing I like about the photo frame is the stand that allows you to show off vertically-oriented pictures (as well as landscape ones), although this does not happen automatically. You’d need to manually rotate your images before loading them on to the photo frame.

The interface is rather easy to work with and lets you effortlessly swap between photo, music or calendar mode with the light tap of a button. Other options include adjustments of the volume of the speaker, the brightness of the screen and the transition effect between images, while context menus let you flip through images and music with ease.

More importantly though, the LCD screen is bright enough to give you a pretty decent viewing distance at most angles. Overall, the Toshiba Tekbright photo frame is a happy addition to our snap happy lives.

Some technical details:

• 64MB of internal memory
• a host of memory card slots – SD, SDHC, MMC, MS, xD, CF
• USB 2.0 interface
• MP3 playback with 1 x 1W speaker
• 7″ LCD touchscreen display
• Active esolution of 720 x 480 pixels
• 6:4 aspect ratio
• integrated calendar/clock
• Jpeg and BMP image support

Update: At the time of writing this, I also received news of Toshiba’s Gigaframe Q8 digital photo frame, which has an 8-inch touch screen, 128MB of pre-installed memory and two stereo speakers.