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It's widescreen....
Apparently I should have done a little math on the resolution on this one before I trusted the picture and other reviews. I watched different deals on-line for about a week only considering non-widescreen frames.
Note: for those of you who don't know, widescreen frames are a bad idea for the consumer and a good idea for the manufacturer. A widescreen with equal diagonal measurement to a 4:3 screen has a smaller surface area, therefore cheaper to produce. However, since your pictures aren't widescreen there are black bars on either side of your photos unless you spend some time cropping and/or skewing each one of your photos. So, the actual viewing area is pretty close to 7". However, the picture is shown the same size as if you had a 4:3 screen at about 5 3/4".
Imagine my disappointment then to have my frame show up (very quickly) and when I pull it out of the box... it's widescreen. Although I wish this were more apparent in the product description I guess I should have been more skeptical before I bought the thing.
Other than the widescreen thing it's fairly straight forward to use. The built-in auto resize isn't super awesome. You'll probably want to resize and crop everything in photoshop or gimp before you put them on there (lots of fun if you're into that sort of thing).
Bottom line: It's pretty much a 5 3/4" screen, not 7"...
December 2008 · Electronics