T-mobile has announced a new twist on the digital picture frame craze, titled the Cameo. The Cameo is a digital picture frame that will have a SIM card and phone number with a $10 monthly service fee. The device itself will run you $100, but the concept is a bit clever despite a few obvious drawbacks. For starters the Cameo’s ideal environment involves you sending pictures to the device via MMS, not exactly photo quality images. Had T-mobile simply included a WiFi connection on the Cameo and skipped the monthly service charge we might actually be able to send a decent quality photo to the device wirelessly.
- High-resolution digital TFT screen with 720 x 480 pixels
- Displays photos with 262 144 colours
- Display dimensions: 130 x 87 mm
- Connections:
• GPRS Class 10 (dual band) for transferring photos from a phone
• Mini USB port (for transferring photos from a PC)
• SD/MMC card slot (for transferring photos directly from a camera) - Receives MMS messages
- Photo format: JPEG and GIF
- Stores up to 500 photos
- Automatically adapts the picture size to the screen
- Brightness adjustment
- Automatically rotates the picture (portrait/landscape)
- Adjustable backlight (manual or automatic)
- External frame with an interchangeable leather surround
- Memory cards accepted: SD, miniSD (with adapter), microSD (with adapter), MMC, RS-MMC (with adapter), MMC plus, MMC mobile (with adapter), MMC micro (with adapter), SDHC, mini SDHC (with adapter).
Via CellPhoneSignal
