Portable USA PU-12WB Wireless 12.1-Inch Digital Picture Frame
From Portable USA, Incorporated
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Product Description
This is an elegant wooden frame that can show off your digital pictures, movies on a bright crystal clear, large 12.1" screen by simply adding a memory card from your camera or connecting to your computer. It's the brightest way to display your digital photos.
The frame can store around 1000 pictures on its 256 MB internal memory and by simply adding a media card (or two) you can reduce that clutter in your house and show off more than you could dream of with this digital picture frame.
By adding MP3 music files (played through built in speakers) to your cards you can add sound to create soothing or exciting slide shows - it's just so simple. Create your own perpetual slide shows!
This product provides handy remote control for pausing or rotating pictures. You can use two different media cards at once. It's so easy to use. Simply insert the media card from your camera and enjoy!
Product Details
* Size: 12.1-Inch
* Color: Cherry
* Brand: Portable USA
* Model: PU-12WB
* Dimensions: 4.25" h x 13.50" w x 18.50" l, 4.50 pounds
* Native resolution: 12.1
* Display size: 12.1
Features
* Portable USA 12.1-inch Wireless Digital Picture Frame
* 256 MB fast flash memory on board (can store up to 1500 pictures)
* Displays digital pictures, video and music
* No computer necessary and bluetooth enabled (requires separate adapter, not included)
* Ships with two real wood frames (black and cherry) and includes free photo editing software
Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
The Portable USA 12.1-inch Wireless Digital Picture Frame is a unique and extremely elegant picture frame display. Features one large 12.1-inch diagonal screen digital picture frame with a 256 MB fast flash memory that can store and show over 1500 pictures.
No computer is necessary and the frame is bluetooth enabled (requires separate adapter - not included) to receive images wirelessly from your cell phone. Portable USA's Wireless Digital Picture Frame can store digital pictures, videos and music and can be displayed portrait or landscape, tabletop or wall.
Includes free photo-editing software for Mac and PC, two real wood frames (black and cherry) and includes calendar and alarm functions. Supports the following image and movie formats: JPEG, AVI, VOB, MPEG, and DAT. Supports the following audio formats: MP3, WAV and WMA.
In the box One PU-12WB digital picture frame with cherry frame, one alternate black frame, remote control, USB cable, locking stand, AC power supply, and comprehensive owner’s manual.
About Portable USA
At Portable USA our goal is to give you the best quality, features, and service offered in the industry. We use only the highest grade screens and components available ensuring you an excellent viewing experience with each and every one of our products. We back all of our products with a full one year warranty (parts AND labor) and live customer support, based here in the United States, to ensure your complete satisfaction with our products.
Customer Reviews
Excellent frame: The perfect gift for mom
My dad wanted me to find a digital frame for my mom for their anniversary. Having seen a little one over christmas, that cut off everyones heads and didn't seem to be easy to use, he was very specific about getting a good one.
We wanted a frame that was large enough for them to see easily but not too big. I knew it had to be easy to use (I have to reset the clock on my mom's VCR if the power goes out). I also wanted one that would NOT cut off heads or other such problems that I have read about. So far, this was an excellent choice.
Both parents were thrilled with the size and look of the frame. All mom had to do is insert the SD card and away they went. Soon, they were both using the remote to choose pictures, skip, go forward and back, etc. This has only been used for about a week, but we have been very pleased with it.
I can't comment on wireless stuff, saving pics, etc. as I have not played with it much. All I can tell you is that Mom and Dad can work it, see it, and everyone who has seen it agrees that it is good looking and an excellent size and very good picture quality.
Sadly, disappointed
I really wanted to be pleased with this frame. I was going to up-size and upgrade a smaller frame I gave my father a year ago. Unlike most digital frames, Portable USA has a manual written in real English (with humor, even) rather than Chinglish, they offer a longer warranty than many, and their customer support was quick to respond to a pre-sales question I e-mailed.
They were also one of the first, if not the first, to provide a picture-change interval longer than about 1 minute (they offer 1 hour), and they're still the only 4:3 models I've found that do so. (See "Notes For Digital Frame Users" at the end.) However, I'm returning the frame, and expect to look to another brand when I eventually order another "upgrade" frame.
The Disappointments
The lighting of the display was very uneven, with darkened brownish bands along the left and right edges, and with dark streaks in the middle. I'm willing to assume that this was a defective display, but lighting can be problematic on LCDs, and what I saw would be a typical failure mode for digital frames, so I would be concerned that any replacement might develop the same symptoms after 6 months or a year of use. That's the main reason why I'm not asking for a replacement.
I was also quite disappointed with the picture sharpness. I had my photos already sized to exactly the frame's specified resolution (800x600), sharpened in a photo editor, and saved at the highest JPG quality (i.e. the least file compression).
The pictures were dramatically softer than they appear at the same resolution on my computer screen, and they seemed to be softer than I recall them looking on the 8" frame I bought last year. (That might be due partly to the larger physical size for the same resolution, but still on an 800x600 display should appear sharper than they do.
Brightness, contrast and saturation were a bit on the low side, but that is typical for almost all digital frames.
The display comes with two interchangeable wood frames - black and brown. Surprisingly, they provide a second piece of glass with the second frame, rather than just the frame itself. The second piece of glass in my package was broken, probably in shipping.
But the glass already mounted to the display was fine, so that's not a big issue. I was actually more disappointed that the brown frame shows no wood grain: it appears to be finished with an opaque stain. The result is that it doesn't really look any better than a plastic frame, even though it IS real wood.
The labeling of this frame as "wireless" is a bit misleading: it's wireless IF you buy a separate USB Bluetooth adapter. The wireless capability is not built in.
The package is supposed to include a printed manual (according to the Portable USA website) but no manual was enclosed. The inner box containing power supply, cables, etc. also looked like it might have been re-taped, so it's possible this package had been returned and then shipped out again.
According to the manual, this frame can have difficulty displaying JPG files that contain "EXIF" information. (Embedded meta-data about the date the photo was taken, exposure settings, etc. that are included in almost ALL files produced by current digital cameras.)
That strikes me as ridiculous, but it's probably common among many digital frame brands, because they all seem to use firmware from just one or two Chinese companies. That may explain why the frame I bought a year ago refused to display a handful of the photos loaded into it.
The frame isn't really hard to use, but the interface has its peculiarities. I thought it was pretty funny that one of the FAQs on Portable USA's website was "I accidentally changed the interface on my frame into Chinese -- how do I get it back to English?" -- funny until I accidentally did it myself. It's really very easy to misinterpret some icon or option and bam! you're in Chinese!
Notes For Digital Frame Users
The following are general comments for people considering a digital frame purchase.
1. Pay attention to the actual display pixels, and make sure that "actual display" is specified: a number of frames that call themselves "800x600" actually display 720x[I forget]. I'm not sure whether those models crop or resize your images, but either way the results will not be what you were hoping for. (This model appears to be a true 800x600 display.)
2. If you have a photo-editing program that can strip EXIF data from JPG files, it would be good to do so for the current crop of digital frames. It's absurd that one should have to do so, but it's a problem inherent in some of the commonly-used Chinese firmware.
(Essentially all digital frames are made in China.) Many frames, including this one, ship with simple software for resizing and preparing files to load into the frames or onto a Flash card, and I assume that they will strip the problematic EXIF data.
3. Pay attention to the VERTICAL viewing angle of any frame you consider: I've noticed that many of them are optimized for viewing with the frame severely tilted away from the viewer (as if it were lying flat on your desk in front of you or as if you were holding it high above eye-level). Such displays look washed-out when viewed at a typical angle where the frame is on a table and the viewer is standing looking at it.
4. I strongly recommend only considering frames that offer at least one display interval at least one hour or longer. Many frames offer options like 3, 5, 10, 30, and 60 seconds, and that's it. That makes the frame basically a flashing billboard: it draws attention in the store, but it's just plain distracting when the frame is sitting in an office or living-room.
It makes a lot more sense to have it look like a regular picture frame, except that when one walks by a little later it's different. Ideally frames wouldn't bother with such similar intervals as 3, 5, and 10 seconds (they're all fast, just pick one) and instead might offer 15 minutes, 1 hour, and maybe even 1 picture per day. No brand offers that range of options now.
5. This is subjective, but I find 4:3 aspect ratio frames more useful than the wider-screen frames that are becoming popular. 4:3 are the proportions of traditional TV and computer monitors, and many digital cameras shoot natively in that format. But the real advantage is that I find it the best compromise for being able to display portrait (vertical) orientation photos as well as landscape (horizontal) photos.
While a wide-format photo might display with a little "wasted" space shown as black bars above and below the image, a portrait-format photo will appear much bigger on a 4:3 display than on a widescreen display of the same nominal size (8-inch, 12-inch, etc.). If you have a mix of portrait and landscape photos to display, you're likely to be best satisfied with a 4:3 proportion frame.
Amazing Picture
This frame has amazing picture quality- came quickly and unlike some others no damage- as an added bonus it was to come with a 1gb sd card but was upgraded to a 2gb card. up and running in 15 minutes- Gave as a gift-
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