Comments on: Attention Cameo fans!

By: Bruce Lewis

Bruce Lewis — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:15:07 +0000

Robert, if your faraway relatives can’t get wifi maybe you could still use this Cameo thing. You could resize the photos to where they take up less than 100K each, so you could probably get 640 photos before any had to be removed.

Like Patrick said, a wifi frame would be better if that’s an option. I have things set up at home so our frame merges our photos with photos from my parents and my sisters’ family. (This is with OurDoings; I think it would be hard to accomplish the same thing on Flickr.) Media RSS opens up a lot of possibilities for sites that support it. See also FrameChannel.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:52:37 +0000

Robert, That is why I mentioned (above) why not get a Wifi frame instead? While you would have to set it up for your relatives the first time, if you had it display a RSS feed from a service like Flickr, you can have it get certain albums which you could then easily add or SUBTRACT photos from.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:14:09 +0000

Unfortunately it will not work as I need. The problem is that there is no way for old pictures to be automatically removed, therefore requiring manual operation. I was hoping to give it to relatives that are unable/unwilling to learn technology, but love getting pictures from the family. They live away from the rest of the family and visiting them is quite a hassle. When the device gets full someone has to manually delete some pictures (note that only the on board 64 mb can be used. the sd card slot is for transfer only.) T-Mobile’s solution is that when someone visits then they fix it. If someone is visiting then I don’t need their T-Mobile’s service. What I want is, ideally, a way to remotely manage the device, or have a setting to allow for dropping the oldest picture so that new ones are stored.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:38:12 +0000

Hooo Hummmm big dealll!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:04:53 +0000

I hope it’s not $10 per month, I would rather have a $4.99 for 400 pix per month. Way more than enough, I can’t see most people sending more than that per month. It stores 150, at $5 I would totally get one for the fun and noelty factor. At $10, I’ll pass.

By: Mystictrust

Mystictrust — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:08:30 +0000

@Patrick

It’s already been spelled out: http://www.tmonews.com/2008/11/the-strangely-named-cameo-surfaces-again/

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:43:48 +0000

Ok while the frame sounds like kind of a cool idea, how is it any different/better than getting a Digital frame with built in Wifi? Most of the Wifi frames are compatible with RSS feeds from places like Flickr. You can send photos from your phone directly to your Flickr account which would then show up on the WiFi frame.

I guess we will have to see what the feature set of the Tmo version actually is, how much it costs, etc.

By: Pythagoras

Pythagoras — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:22:39 +0000

I know a secret hack that will allow you to not get charged for adding photos – use something called a “USB cable”

By: MUNDO

MUNDO — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:23:16 +0000

I want to here more about the bb javelin but for now the g1 is good

By: Pythagoras

Pythagoras — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:09:00 +0000

Which end of it do you speak into?