Smartparts SP70BR

Low resolution. Poor features, no accessories. There are much better choices in this price range.

None apparent given the relative competition.

No instruction manual. Requires use of software loaded on your PC to use advertised features, of which, there aren't many. Software is not included, and must be downloaded. Software was not intuitive for me and I gave up on "step 3".

No USB cable supplied. Requires (apparently, remember, there are no directions) USB "A" to USB "A". USB A to mini "B", USB A to firewire, USB "A" to USB Socket, USB to parallel. USB "A" to USB "B", USB A + USB A to firewire, USB to component, I have. Just not the $.0.50 made in china part that I needed to use the product. The lack of an included cable wouldn't be such a big deal if you didn' thave to use their proprietary software (not provided) to get any feature use. Every other digital frame I've used, can accept pictures without a direct PC connection while offering full user control on the frame itself.

From what I can tell (its that whole "no directions" thing again), it can't operate from a thumb drive, at least not if you want any of the sparse included features.

Low resolution.

No on-board menu. There is no way to control the frame (e.g., setting time of day to turn on and off, changing default photo display from anything other than about 2 seconds, etc).

"Remote control", which appeared to be permanently fastened to the frame (I did not want to attempt to force it off. Again, directions would have helped.) did not appear to do anything. I hit "rotate", it didn't rotate. I hit "back", it didn't go back. Etc. However, when I hit something, it froze the display requiring me to power off and start the display from the beginning.

In case I haven't mentioned it as a weakness yet, I'd like to point out that I consider the lack of directions or operations manual to be a significant fault. I know, skipping the the manual probably saves the company all of about 2 cents, so its obviously worth not including.

Several Kodak and Polaroid circa 2007 products, all of which had more resolution and better features.

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