Sony DPF-WA700 and DPF-W700: Through friends’ eyes

Everyone who at least once was lucky enough to be in a beautiful place knows this keen feeling: eh, where are my friends now, who to show this miracle to, with whom to share the joy? Because happiness knows no arithmetic and only multiplies by division. Until recently this desire remained abstract, but progress does not stand still – its turn has come. Sony has developed a pair of twin picture frames S-Frame this is the brand name of all Sony picture frames, as Walkman for music players – DPF-WA700 and DPF-W700, which in addition to all the standard “picture frame” functions can independently download via Wi-Fi and show pictures posted by your friends and, of course, you on social networks, and without any effort on your part of course, that they should be open to you by privacy settings .

All you have to do is enter your social network login and password into the memory of the “smart” frame. In addition, new products can receive and display photos sent by e-mail.

In the last few years photo frames have quietly entered our everyday life, probably because they didn’t claim to be some kind of special gimmicks and didn’t promise anything flashy. All functions of the frame seem to be fully described by its name. And yet, every owner of these unhandy devices will confirm that they immediately and for a long time become one of the centers of attraction in the house.

Constantly and unobtrusively they gladden the owners and guests with lovely faces, scenes, favorite canine and feline faces – in general, everything that is dear to man, but sometimes somehow overlooked, and which once again will not hurt to remind.

After gaining popularity and noticeably lowering in price, firmly entrenched in the title of the ideal gift for all ages and genders, photo frames were stagnant for a while, changing by and large only the design of the front panels, and what new, it would seem, can be invented for such a well-established business as viewing photos?

As it turns out, it can. It was around this time that social networks entered our lives, and now some grandmothers spend more time on “Odnoklassniki” than watching TV, and young people cannot imagine their lives without Facebook, Twitter and Vkontakte. Where once you had to go online in person to learn something new, now the photos themselves get to your screen.

So, the most outstanding feature of the new products is the ability to automatically upload photos of your

You can also connect it to AccuWeather, an online weather service, and then with cute symbols in the lower right corner it will show you what to expect from the skies today. The senior model WA700 can also serve as internet-radio receiver, if you specify the site of the radio station in the address bar of your browser and select the live broadcasting service.

Of course, all the usual features of photo frames are implemented at a very high level. High-quality seven-inch display of high resolution 800×480 dots, panoramic format and LED-backlit and touchscreen, so that management will be familiar to owners of any modern phone , strict and extremely stylish appearance – nothing extra on the front panel, just a company logo on a beautiful textured surface.

It’s nice that Memory Stick and SD/SDHC memory cards slots as well as USB both regular and mini-USB are placed not in the frame edge, but hidden at the back side of the frame, otherwise all the stylishness would be lost with the media sticking out at the side. Own memory frame – 2 GB, which is very solid. And, of course, an on/off timer to relieve yourself of this concern as well – an insignificant at first glance, but very handy feature.

Only the multimedia features are different between the two novelties: the simpler model, W700, shows only photographs in silence, its older sister WA700 can also play audio and video files, and a set of supported formats promises to save the owner all the trouble of compatibility. The Internet capabilities of both models are identical.

In practice, it looks like this: the photo frame slowly plays photos from your recent trip, and suddenly the familiar, pictures you shot yourself are interrupted by the image of your girlfriend’s flushed face among the snowy peaks. A note on the side said the photo was posted to Facebook two minutes ago.

It turns out that it is now in Austria! By the way, it looks like the camera in her new smartphone is very nice. A little time passes and you find out in the same way that your friends are rocking out in a club where an interesting team is playing – why not join, since the evening is not planned? And being somewhere on Goa and smiling from surrounding exotica, you’ll already know the way to share the joy with your friends, – if, of course, they have already bought new S-Frame following your advice.

Approximate price: DPF-WA700 – 6990 Dollars., DPF-W700 – 4490 Dollars.