Synaps 7 Digital Picture Frame - 18ms, 300:1, 480x234, 16:9, Walnut Wooden Finish Tone

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I would recommend using the USB slot with a flash drive. The frame seems to like a diet of SD cards. Tried a 1GB and 2GB in it and both were rendered useless within weeks of light use. The USB flash drive (with write protection enabled) has worked like a champ for weeks without issue. Buttons are not intuitive as one reviewer mentioned, but once you get the hang of it, its relatively easy to use.

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I bought this item on sale. It's a breeze to use and works perfectly. I'm happy I bought 2 of them so now I have the perfect gift for a loved one.

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Got this the picture quality is not the best but for $40 what can you expect? It does what it is suppose to do and I use with an SD card so I dont have the USB drive sticking out. It was a little difficult to figure out the buttons but maybe if I had read the instructions who knows. I would buy it again. Fake wood looks nothing like wood.

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I picked up one of these for mothers day. I was very excited because this was my first digital photo frame. I loaded it up using a 2gb SD. Functionality it works great. Quality is terrible. pictures show up very grainy. Will be returning it.

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I purchased this for my photography business to display our work at shows, parties and wedding receptions.(have not used it for that yet but will). Other than the 480 X 234 formating the frame is great. Although the manual says it's limited to reading a 2 gig card, it still worked w/ my 4 gig. No, it does not automatically rotate your pictures. I have purchased 2 frame for myself, so I can display landscape and portrait pictures and plan on purchasing 2 more for the business. No, it does not play music or have a calander or even keep time, but it does display pictures. And for the price, you just can't beat it!

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Great digital frame for the price. Not the best picture quality, but what would you expect for $30.

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great product for the price, but it destroyed my 1 gig sd card and now it is no longer usable the frame still works fine, but i dont know when it will eat another sd card, i would not buy it if i knew what i know now

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I purchased three of these. I got them after a friend of mine did; who also bought them for Christmas gifts. I kept one for myself. Out of the three, one started growing dim shortly after powering it up. Tiger was great about exchange...I got a replacement a few days after sending the defective one. Im pleased with it; its fine for the price. You don't want USB drive sticking out past the edge? Invest $3/$4 for a SD card. It takes a little effort, but if you'll take your favorite pics, make copies, resize to 480 x 270 (or x 235...some confusion over the actual vertical res)...you can fit hundreds/thousands of JPGs on even a small card. Thus far I haven't found the limits of how many it will display as long as its in a sub folder (not in the root of the card). The aspect ratio means I have to severely crop some of the older film pictures I've scanned in, but that's ok. Would be nice if it displayed video or had sound..but what do you expect for $35?

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For only 35 bucks you can't go wrong. Unless you are just a picky person you will love this frame. The frame itself looks like plastic (cause it is), and yes if you use a thumb drive it will more than likely stick out from the side. But with this being said, Big whoop. This frame is great. It has all the features that you could need for showing off your photos and if you know what your doing, It WILL NOT auto rotate your pictures. I took it out of the box, put in my sd card and pluged it in, pressed play and it does the rest. VERY USER FRIENDLY. If you want a top of the line frame with real wood trim and all that other fancy stuff, don't be trying to get one for 35 buck. If you want a realy nice frame that works and looks great, get this one. 4 out of 5 star in my book.

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I purchased this as a gift during our office gift exchange and somehow it managed to come back to me. That being the case I set it up on my desk and have been using it for a few weeks. Pros: *Cheap *Does as advertised, displays pictures Cons: *No random picture mode. *Biggie- It rotates some of my by 90 or 270 degrees. I format all my pictures before putting them on my USB stick in paint. The only work around I've found is to go back into paint and rotate my pics to adjust for the problem for the frame. It's really annoying. It doesn't seem consistent either. I emailed tech support and while they did reply it wasn't much help. Neutral *Picture isn't spectacular but for 35 bucks I can't complain *The fake wood frame looks very fake. Again, it was 35 bucks so can't complain. *No internal memory, again it was 35 dollars. Good for a cheap gift or if you aren't picky with your photo frame. I spent about 20-25 bucks more on a photo frame for my mother and was much happier.

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This digital photo frame is about half the price of frames I've seen on display. So far it has cycled through 233 photos. By using an SD card (or USB) you don't have to lug the frame to your computer to update it. I bought this as a gift and I was very impressed with it.

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Works great... No problems at all, although stand is a bit to tight, be careful when assembling. Just drag and dropped a few hundred pics onto a 2gb flash drive, popped it in and it was going in no time. Thanks Tiger D

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To the reviewer of December 3rd; you probably formatted your 2 gig card as FAT instead of FAT32. FAT only allows 128 enties in the root directory which is why many camera makers format their cards with only one directory in the root and put all the pictures in the sub-directory which has no limit on the number of files/pictures.

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Pros - Looks nice on my desk, simple to setup and use. Cons - can't transfer pics to the card using the usb port. You must have a seperate card reader in your computer, wish I had read that review before. Tips - store pics in folders, not on the root. Also, resize pics to the correct resolution, will require cropping as this display is 16:9 ratio. To fill the whole screen, your pics need to be the right size, or you need to set the STRETCH feature in the menu, which might make some pics a little blurry. Otherwise, not a bad deal for the price. Would recommend a usb flash drive though, since not everyone has a card reader.

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Received frame yesterday for a Christmas gift for my mother. It works great. It seems very well make except for the stand which fits very tight and could break if your not careful when installing. The picture quality is good. Frame plus 2 gig SD. Not bad for 39 bucks. Don't try to put all pics on the root of the SD card. Create a folder on the SD and then copy pics to it. Root only hold a few files.

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Pretty basic digital frame, but for $39 its a good deal. Good pic quality and seems well made. I just made sure it worked and checked its features as this is a christmas gift for someone.

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We tried a similar resolution Coby unit, the vertical resolution looks worse than a laptop screen, and it was to replace an older Kodak unit that also has a nice timer feature to turn on and off every day at set times. For the price, it works, but you'll get more with more expensive units.

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Very easy to set up and use. Picture quality is actually quite impressive for the price. Picture transitions are fast and smooth, even with very large file sizes. As you would expect for the price, the frame is wood colored plastic not real wood.