The Philips on radio alarm clock/photo frame is a tricky product want to evaluate. What makes it hard is that on a level with a digital photo frame the idea of the combination of a clock radio really cool concept is - and in many ways to successfully is. But at the same time have some problems that you want, it is that Philips hurry up and a new, improved version would make.
Design
On the positive side to cosmetically attractive although glossy finish black, to the 7-inch (diagonal) widescreen display is a fingerprint magnet. The back of the frame is white and arches at the bottom to create a stable state, which sets the frame at a good angle for the display.
Functions
Philips loaded also feature. First of all, the LCD shows date and time, plus you get stored in the slots on the side of the frame two alarms as well as pictures on an optional SD/MMC card or thumbdrive that fit. They can view the photos in a slideshow format across the entire frame or they have a smaller one in the next to the time and date in the "clock"-mode appear.
If you choose the option "Widescreen" from the settings menu, your photos will fit on the screen and at the end of something is cut off. If you are using standard 4: 3-option go, they appear as they were shot, but with black bars on both sides of the image.
On the front of the clock radio is a FM radio with 20 presets-the presets are painful to put something, but 20 is versatile-plus two alarms, a sleep timer with interval options between 15 to 60 minutes and dimmer/snooze bar conveniently at the top of the frame set.
There are some nice features that buried in the menu system. On the one hand, you can change the color of the background display. You get 16 slide show transition effects to the selection-we want random, a few news alerts-church bells, ocean wave, forest and tap and three different "relaxation mode" for the sleep timer, including the sound of the rain, ocean waves, or a new-age style reef, which directly at home in a massage room.
Performance
His photo skills to also plays back MP3 and WMA files and select video files from your SD/MMC card or thumbdrive. From choose we mean you limited - we had no luck with videos, we would include with a handful of cameras from leading manufacturers (Canon, Nikon, Olympus) and a video started (Samsung camera) play had no sound.
You to can play MPEG4 files, but the ones we tested not recognized, so we assume that it again plays only certain flavors of MPEG-4. We had more luck with DivX. The "a: a space Odyssey" short the Stage6 site, we downloaded played fine and DivX enthusiasts should be entirely happy with this feature. It is also worth noting that the framework with the DivX compatible, i.e. it can be registered VOD service and is used, play DivX files, which would you rent or purchase (download) from an online DivX VOD service.
Unfortunately, not the video and photos see displayed on the device only too well. The framework is relatively low resolution (only 480 x 234 pixels), so that images and video are just not setting - to put it kindly. This is typical for budget photo frame, so that we were not surprising, but if you expected, are looking elsewhere for great picture quality. Also images, especially those with larger file formats tend slowly, load that is annoying.
The sound on photo frame with built-in speakers is always really tinny little bass, and the same is true for on. In other words, the Philips play louder than your typical photo frame, so the sound quality is but again, that your expectations keep a slight notch, and you are not too disappointed.
We read of a few users that the unit not the backlight Dim enough, but the dimmer on its lowest setting was not too bright for our liking dimmer. To has the easy to use interface, and it took a little tinkering to find out how to navigate and make adjustments to the settings. An irritating feature is that the up / down button does not actually control the volume, as you may think. Instead, a separate wheel controller on the right side, which lowers and raises is hidden volume.
Conclusion
At the end, we had to mixed feelings about that. There are a lot of features, but like the mediocre image here and sound quality leaves much left over. If you can find it at a bargain price (£ 85 or less), it certainly makes a decent gift for someone looking after a basic clock radio with digital imaging benefits. Ideally, we want to find you under Philips create a version with a higher resolution screen and slightly updated Sonics-- and we would not, however, to pay more for it.
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