{"id":6268,"date":"2008-01-12T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/picture-frames-need-phds.html"},"modified":"2008-01-12T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T11:57:11","slug":"picture-frames-need-phds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/picture-frames-need-phds.html","title":{"rendered":"Picture Frames need PHDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/memoryframe.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>After reading Tony Ryb&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/the-hyperconnected-enterprise\/hyperconnectivity\/hyperconnectivity-gone-astray-a-wireless-digital-picture-frame.asp\">blog <\/a>about how it shouldn&#8217;t take a PHD to get a wireless photo frame working I have to share my story of the Sharper Image wireless picture frame called the MemoryFrame from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsicentral.com\/\">DigitalSpectrum Incorporated<\/a>. This device is perhaps the most complicated and worst designed product I have ever used. It is buggy and a nightmare to get a WEP key into. In order to get the key in you have to put a file containing the key on an SD card and insert it into the device.<\/p>\n<p>Even after spending countless hours on getting it to work properly on a WiFi network, I was disappointed that it didn&#8217;t synchronize photos from the internet the way it is supposed to. It may have been my firewall causing the problem but who knows? Moreover, I have a Linksys firewall so if this access point is the problem, one would imagine the company would have found a way to work with the world&#8217;s most popular consumer WiFi AP.<\/p>\n<p>I think that if consumer electronics companies want to last for the long haul, they need to focus on making things simple.  Especially at the ridiculously high price I paid ($350) for this frame from the Sharper Image.<\/p>\n<p>The frame now goes for $250 on the Sharper Image website and it is still too much money for this frame in my opinion. I just cant recommend this product.<\/p>\n<p>Is the wireless picture frame market just another area where Apple will eventually come into, make simple and gain 95% market share? Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Tony Ryb&#8217;s blog about how it shouldn&#8217;t take a PHD to get a wireless photo frame working I have to share my story of the Sharper Image wireless picture frame called the MemoryFrame from DigitalSpectrum Incorporated. This device is perhaps the most complicated and worst designed product I have ever used. It is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,172,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}