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D-Link DSM-210 Internet Photo Frame | 
| Brand: D-Link
Category: Photography
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $235.59
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  11 reviews
Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Native Resolution: 10
Display Size: 10
Removable Memory: Memory Stick
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 12 x 8 x 1
MPN: DSM-210
Model: DSM-210
UPC: 790069313578
EAN: 0790069313578
ASIN: B0014B8GR8
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| » | View pictures from the Internet as well as UPnP servers | | » | Supports 802.11b and 802.11g wireless networks with Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), WPA and WPA2, and WEP encryption | | » | 10" TFT LCD, 16:9 format, 800 x 480 resolution, 300 cd/m2 brightness |
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Product Description
With the D-Link Internet Photo Frame (DSM-210) you get all the benefits of a digital photo frame with the added features and convenience of the Internet. The DSM-210 includes a bright and vibrant 10⿿ screen to view all your favorite photos in resolutions up to 10-Megapixel. Friends and family can upload photos directly over the Internet to your DSM-210 using a simple Web site or with a drag-and-drop desktop widget. You can also keep connected to the latest news, weather, sports, and more using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds from the Internet directly on your Internet Photo Frame.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 11
 Another DOA December 6, 2009
Lance Briggin
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I also got a Dead-On-Arrival unit. Either the remote is broken or the receiver in the frame is broken - the unit just won't respond to the remote. You can't set up any connectivity without the remote.
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br /Was going to set up this frame for my mom for Xmas so she can see her grandchild from so far away, now I have to deal with the manufacturer or get an RMA and miss Xmas. D-Link needs to stop using their customers as quality control.
 Two DOA's December 3, 2009
D. Van Malsen (Jenison, MI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased two of these units. I'm guessing they shipped right from D-Link as they actually had sequential serial numbers.
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br /Both units would not respond to the remote and one flickered excessively.
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br /The frames look sharp. Their power saving features and ability to connect to Framechannel make them the most unique frame available. It's a shame D-Link's quality control is so poor.
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 Can it be any easier???? (Yes just a bit, but still a great gift) December 1, 2009
Brian A. Hall (Kansas City)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
EDITED: OK, I have to amend my review below. There is a MAJOR software omission that I hope they fix with a firmware update. The unit does not remember your settings for the source of your pictures if you loose power or turn it off manually. So if you set it up for you parents to access the internet as I did then they turn it off and back on it goes to the settings screen essentially asking for which source you want to display pictures from. If you don't have the remote handy you are out of luck. This is really, REALLY stupid. I experienced this first hand after writing the review below. The rest of the review stands true. It's still a great gift for them after I taught them how to use the remote to select "Internet" as the source. (wasn't too hard, right arrow twice, then OK twice). They LOVE IT!
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br /OK, I am an Amazon junkie. I buy almost everything on Amazon now and I rely heavily on reviews. So here is my honest review.
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br /If you are looking for a frame to easily update photos from the internet or essentially from your computer, this is it!
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br /Other than a dead remote battery that I had to replace this worked perfectly out of the box! It took 15 minutes to set up the frame, the internet account and send out invites to family members and have them already sending pictures to it.
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br /Here's how it works. I set it up for wireless so if you are going wired it is even easier. When you turn on the frame you will use the remote to move over to settings and pick wireless settings. It will show you a list of wireless networks it can see. You should see your router just like when you attach your laptop to a hotspot or your home network. Select the network you want and if it is a secure network it will ask for the appropriate passphrase based on the security. Now is the hardest part. You use the tiny remote arrows to spell out your phrase by picking out the letters with the remote. OK, yes, I know it would be nice to use a USB cable to connect to a laptop and set it up that way but this is a one time deal. Once you type in the phrase and click OK it connects. No issues. And you don't have to redo it when you turn it off and on. It remembers it.
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br /Next you pick where you want to display your photos from, internal memory or internet. The internet means from their server where they give you a FREE account that you set up using instructions provided in the box. Very simple. When you pick the internet on the frame it will give you a unique access code that you will type into the account you will setup on their website. This is what links your frame to your account on the internet.
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br /Now you can upload photos to the account you setup by logging in and uploading photos to the main album but here is the best part. You can send invites to email addresses of family members including yourself. The invite includes an email address for your new account that you simply send photos to and it will automatically send them to the frame.
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br /So in a nutshell once you set up your account, your frame and link the two all you do is start emailing photos (as attachments) to this new email address it gives you and within seconds (literally, 15 seconds on our network) they appear on the frame.
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br /And, as the account master you can control the photos sent to the frame so if you have a teenager that starts sending photos you don't like you can delete them from the web account without ever touching the frame.
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br /This is a perfect frame as a gift for a mother or grandmother that has internet. She does nothing but walk into the kitchen and see new pictures daily.
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br /Now, for the frame itself. It is plastic. Yes, I wish they made some overlays that looked more like wood or actually were wood. They could do a better job of this. But since it is plain black it is pretty discrete with no logos or wording on it to distract you from the photos.
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br /Hope this helps!
Good Frame, POOR (repeat POOR!) Remote Control! November 28, 2009
H. McCain (Oxford, MS United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would like to say that I was able to test everything this picture frame did before I had to send it back for a refund. However, the remote control hardly worked at all and when it did the signal was so weak that I had to stand a few feet from it to get it to work. The battery did not seat well in the device so I had to fiddle with it to even get the thing to advance menu to menu. Without the remote you can hardly do anything. Yes, there are limited function on-screen buttons, but they did not work for me. I finally gave up on it, packaged it back and returned it. Amazon was great for the return process.
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br /It is a shame that D-Link can make such awesome products and yet the deal killer comes in the small things. The remote could have been made better. Customer support is practically non-existent with D-Link (overseas- need I say more?) and they are quick to blame the user and the user's equipment before they admit to fault in their product. Come on D-Link, stand up and have some integrity. Stand behind your product, else stand behind others that will eventually make something better. It's a dog eat dog industry.
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br /I was looking forward to an internet capable picture frame and have had good luck with other D-Link products. Unfortunately, not this one. I bought the Kodak equivalent and it works GREAT!
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br /I don't know why D-Link does not listen to their customers. Maybe they don't speak english? Who knows. All I know is that this device did not work for me. From now on I will stick with their routers and media players. They ROCK!
Great Frame, I own several! November 20, 2009
M. Paolini (Austin, TX United States)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Short review:
br /Best currently on the market (11/2009), I own 2 and am buying more for friends and family. The people with the negative reviews of this product are wonky or worse.
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br /Long Review:
br /Let me start of by saying that I'm a photo hobbyist. By that I mean I use a Nikon D700, run Lightrooom and Photoshop, upload to Flickr, Facebook, etc. and generally enjoy photos, both my own and other peoples.
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br /I started looking for a digital photo frame a little over a year ago, and in that time I've rolled through several model of several brands including Sony, Toshiba, and D-Link. Here's what I've learned. First you really want a network enabled (ideally Wi-Fi enabled) frame. You want it for 2 reasons. First you want it for loading the pictures to the device, and second you want it pull content from the network or Internet. Both are killer must have features - you really aren't going to keep updating the frame if you have carry it or thumbsticks to and from the computer.
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br /The D-Link supports both. Network setup supports push button WPK, or manual configuration of all types. It also supports a wired ethernet plug.
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br /The D-Link has a drag'n'drop widget for your desktop (Yahoo Widget actually) which connects upto 10 frames (selected by tab). It shows the pictures on the frame cycling automatically, this can be paused. You can step through them forward or backward, and you can delete pictures. To load pictures on the frame you drag the pictures to the widget and they wireless transfer over, I do this a few hundred at a time (basically I output all my tagged my photos from Lightroom at 800x600 into a folder, select all and drag and drop. I have different directories for the 2 different frames (upstairs and downstairs). Simply, quick, easy. No hassle with cables, our devices. So far I haven't seen this feature present in the other frames on the market.
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br /Next the D-link supports pulling content from a local media server on the network (I pass on this because it means you have to have one up and running all the time) or from the Internet, specifically the free FrameChannel service. This service allows you to log-in and configure content sent to your frame from various places - Facebook, Flickr, Smug-Smug, about 200 other preconfigured offering that keep growing, and it allows you to create custom RSS feeds (text or image) as well. More you can say which content gets shown which days of the week, which times of the day, and how often compared to other streams. Yes that is right you can have multiple channels of content available (I've got about 14). One thing that sets the D-Link appart here from the Toshiba which also supports FrameChannel is that on the frame you can select a specific feed channel from the Framechannel configured choices you set up. Toshiba it's all or nothing on rotation. So you want just Facebook, you need to log into the Framechannel with the Toshiba via a browser - D-Link lets you do it via the remote.
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br /FrameChannel also lets you accept email photos (you get an address and you can authorize other addresses for immediate publish or wait for authorization). Configure friends option to share photos, and a whole lot more. This makes it IDEAL for setting up for grandma and updating her photos remotely.
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br /If you are confused about any of the framechannel features, hit their website and do some reading, create an account and play - it's free.
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br /D-Link will also firmware update via the network - when updates are available a menu item appears for download.
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br /Cost wise, Fry's has had these pretty cheap $200 which is a marvelous price on a 10" frame with these features AND 1 GB of local memory. However they can't seem to keep them in-stock...
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br /The only down side I've seen on these is the colors on the screen are a little flat compared to other offering out there (Sony's is lovely, but also $300 with a weaker feature set), but not enough to cause me to switch my buying preference here given the feature and prices points.
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br /Really for 2009, the D-Link DSM-210 is as good as you can do.
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