AMEX Digital SP-7 Announced - Digital Picture Frame with Printer

AMEX Digital just released weather station and alarm clock digital picture frames; this time it's a digital frame with printer than will be coming out. Photo printers embedded into digital frames are nothing new, we reviewed a Smartparts unit that does such a thing last year. The AMEX effort brings in a 7” widescreen display that offers multimedia playback.

While AMEX didn't disclose anything about the printer, the unit looks nearly the same as the Smartparts frame. For $50 more than the current retail of the Smartparts frame, it remains to be seen how well the AMEX Sp-7 performs. We haven't found the ink cost and print quality to be justifiable though to date.

Otherwise, the frame features a 7” widescreen display with 800×480 pixel resolution. There's also a multi-card reader that handles MS, MMC, SD, XD and CF cards, along with USB drive and miniUSB support. The SP-7 also includes a speaker and multimedia support for JPG, AVI, Mpeg1,2,4 and MP3 files. There's no mention of how much internal memory is included.

The AMEX Digital SP-7 will retail for $199.99.

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