Coby DP-102 10-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with Built-In MP3 Player
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Coby DP-102 10-Inch Widescreen Digital Photo Frame with Built-In MP3 Player
Customer Review: 3 weeks later, I still can't use it.
Summary: 1 Stars
First of all, this review is for the COBY DP-758 ONLY. be forewarned, Amazon has this tendency lately to lump reviews for different products together, which makes finding accurate ones for what YOU are purchasing difficult at best! That being said, here's my review: There's nothing like the gift that keeps giving, and this thing is like Herpes...the pain never stops. I received it as a gift, and if you are thinking of buying it for someone, DON'T!! Just give 'em cash, I beg of you. To begin with, it has no internal memory, so immediate purchase of an SD memory card is a must. Then you are limited to the old fasioned, slow SD card (SDHC not compatible) with a 2GB max. So if you have LOTS of pictures, as I do, you will need several, and have to interchage them at regular intervals. Ok, so you have your SD card and think you're ready to go, right? WRONG!! They didn't even include a connectivity cable to hook it up to your computer! The instructions (The marginally better downloaded PDF document by the way, not the crappy instructions included in the box) simply say to connect your computer using a USB 2.0 High-speed cable, which should be easy, but what you actually need is a USB male 'A' to male 'A' connector NOT an A/B extension or even A/A extension which has one female end. This cable thus far, seems to be made with unobtainium, 'cause it's impossible to find. First, I went to Radio-Shack, Staples, Wal-Mart, Best Buy (the list goes on...) and nothing, zero, zip nada...there just isn't any. Not even Belkin had one. Next, I tried online... but 2 tries later (even though the description sounded right) I have returned both, and had to pony up the return shipping to boot (more time and money wasted). Oh and forget about customer service, you are better off asking your pet, or maybe one of those fortune telling eight-balls. Consequently, I still have a picture frame that's only good for a door-stop, and my limited options are; Build the cable myself and risk damaging my computer for this piece of crap, trash it altogether, or perhaps re-gift to someone I really, really don't like. Customer Review: Limitied capabilities
Summary: 2 Stars
Aside from a clearly visible grid on the screen, the products has many limitations. To do a slide show of pictures, you have to have all the pictures in the same folder. Besides, you can not have more than 500 pictures per folder, or the last ones will not be shown. So if you have lots pictures organized in folders (like most of us do), you have to copy them into a same folder, which is very troublesome; and most likely you will have to split them in different folders of 500 pictures each, and every once in a while select a different folder. I wish there was a firmware upgrade so the product could randomly display pictures in any folder in a memory device. ...Oops, almost forgot, even though you have different options for memory devices, they cannot be more than 1GB in size or they wont work, another annoyance since nowdays is difficult to find devices of less than 2GB.Customer Review: Coby DP350 Review
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a nice purse sized photo album with good quality pictures. I found setup a little awkward and the ability to select individual pics cumbersome, needing a software upgrade, I think. Still, I haven't seen anything any better in this size at any price making it a reasonable choice to carry a bundle (up to 1000) of pictures for a proud parent or grandparent.Customer Review: nice frame
Summary: 5 Stars
It is what it is... not to fancy, not too simple. It is easy to use and has a nice display window. I bought it for my grandmother as a gift and she was able to get it to work without any problems. I also like that it has several ways that it transitions between photos (ie. fade out, roll over into next pic, graphic cube fade....). I would recommend this item to anyone that is looking for a digital frame for their photos. Customer Review: DP350 Good and Bad
Summary: 4 Stars
It looks as if reviews for various Coby photo viewing products have been mixed together. This review is for the Coby DP-350. It covers only the picture viewing capability, because I have not used the MP3 playing capability. The only type of memory cards I have used with the DP-350 have been SD's.
What I like most about the DP-350 is that if you have your photos divided into folders, you can move through the folders and select a specific folder for viewing. This means you don't have to move through perhaps hundreds of photos to find the ones you want. You can create the folders in the DP-350's internal memory (about 1 GB) or on an SD memory card. (Perhaps other memory card types as well. I used only SD's.)
The SD-350 will not let you choose subfolders within a folder. If you do have pictures within subfolders, the pictures will all appear in the parent folder.
When you connect the DP-350 to your computer with the USB cable, Windows Explorer treats the DP-350's internal memory as one more drive. If you have a memory card inserted in the DP-350, it is treated as yet another drive. Using Windows Explorer, you can create or delete folders, copy folders from you hard drive (or maybe a CD), transfer pictures to the folders and delete pictures from the folders. If you want slide shows to be in a certain order, you must transfer the pictures to the folder in that order.
What I most dislike about the DP-350 are it's 5 buttons. Push them a bit too slowly or not quite hard enough, and the button push is not recognized. Also, it would be nice if the buttons were a bit wider and a bit more rounded; if you use the buttons to move through pictures instead of running a slide show, your fingers will become slightly sore.
Another problem with the DP-350 is the delay between button push and response to the button push. This is not much of a problem if you are working with photos in the internal memory but can be annoying if you are working with a memory card with many folders and pictures. As you wait for a response, you wonder if perhaps you didn't push the button just right. (The brand of SD memory cards I use come in different speeds. Using a faster memory card reduced the waiting time, but internal memory still worked much faster.) (Note: Another 3.5" viewer I have is much faster when working with memory cards but does not allow the selection of folders.)
There are two features I wish the DP-350 had. The first would be the ability to jump from one page of 9 thumbnails or folders to the next or previous page without having to move through the folders or thumbnails one at a time. The other would be the ability to rotate pictures so that portrait oriented photos could be viewed in a somewhat larger size.