I have a weak spot for these new souped up Web-capable digital photo frames. I know they're overly glamorized and expensive, but in some cases, they're pretty cool. Back in September HP announced its 10" DreamScreen for $299. Since its Sept release date, we've seen it drop to $150 on Black Friday and $180 back on Dec. 7th. In other words, the deals on this frame came in pretty quick considering how new it is. I'm hoping the same will happen with Sony's new Dash Internet Viewer. It's a souped up frame that runs the Chumby OS so you have access to over 1,000 free Chumby apps. Add to that Sony's own Sony Music and Sony Pictures apps and you got yourself an app-happy picture frame. It's got a 7" screen, built-in Wi-Fi, supports multiple user profiles, stereo speakers, a headphone jack, and can also support multiple "channels." So you can create a "bedroom" channel that might have access to the 5-day weather forecast and Slacker on the homepage. Then you can have a "kitchen" channel that maybe has YouTube access or Netflix access on its homepage. So essentially, it is what you make of it.
It's shipping in April for $199. If the HP DreamScreen is any indication, we might see deals on this little wedge come June to early summer.
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Finally details that tell me what an Apple Tablet might actually be like - a picture screen plus web viewer plus music player.
It's all starting to make sense...
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