Parrot Bluetooth digital picture frame

Parrot has launched an LCD digital photo frame that communicates with digital cameras and camera phones via Bluetooth technology. Users simply use their phone or camera to connect to the "Parrot PHOTO VIEWER" and the picture is automatically converted, tilted, and displayed.

The Parrot Bluetooth Photo Viewer will be available this spring in Europe.

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Parrot Frees Your Photos from Mobile Phones and PCs With the Worlds First Bluetooth Digital Picture Frame

Parrot launches a brand new concept to easily view and share digital photos from any Bluetooth camera phone on a LCD photo frame by sending them by Bluetooth. The user simply needs to select the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER in the list of Bluetooth devices. He then selects the picture he wants to display and sends it via Bluetooth. The picture is instantly converted to the size of the screen. The frame also instantly selects either portrait or landscape format depending on its position (vertical or horizontal). If the user changes the frame position, the photo is also automatically and instantly adjusted.

Henri Seydoux, Parrot's founder and CEO, recently commented: "We all take photos with our mobile phones but it is often difficult to view them. Most of the time, they are confined to the phone - we do not bother printing them, and if we intend to send them, we do so by MMS to another phone. The idea we have come up with at Parrot is a Bluetooth photo frame which allows to display instantly and automatically the photos."
Parrot has given special attention to the elegant design of the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER which is available in several colors of leather and bleached oak.
Benefits of the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER include:

Wireless Bluetooth transfer of photos
Universal compatibility with Bluetooth-enabled phone
Pictures instantly converted to the size of the screen
Pictures instantly adjusted to the position of the frame (horizontal/vertical)
Automatic adjustment of the LCD screen luminosity
Ultra-simplified use
Contemporary elegant and design
Technical characteristics:

Bluetooth digital photo frame
TFT screen with 320*234 pixels
262,144 colour display
Bluetooth 1.2
Bluetooth BIP, OPP and FTP profiles
32 MB internal memory for storing over 100 JPEG images
Software-controlled image resizing
Accepts JPEG images from 700 K to 7M pixels
Portrait or landscape position sensor
Light sensor
Fixed display and slideshow functions
Size of the frame in leather or white-leaded oak: height:13 cm x width: 15,2 cm x depth: 2,8 cm

The Parrot Photo Viewer will be available in the Spring from major retailers in Europe. Retail price will be around 229 Euros including VAT.