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OLED Magical Goodness

In the wide world of digital camera accessories, perhaps the more interesting ones are frequently the most overlooked. Like digital picture frames. Take a frame, wrap it around an LCD, let it read your pictures off memory cards and everyone’s happy. You can show hundreds of photos, no printing, and you can save the environment a little. And while most won’t take the giant wafers we call compact flash memory cards, they will usually take SD memory cards and other such small media.

And all of that is a long-winded history to introduce this:

Pocket Album OLED

That’s the Digital Foci Pocket Album Deluxe OLED 2.8, winning the award this week for longest product name. It’s big feature is the new 2.8″ diagonal wide-gamut, super-bright, high contrast OLED screen. OLED is a new technology that’s aiming to replace LCD, and I hope it does. The color on our test model there was gorgeous and lifelike, the viewing angle was basically “if you can see the screen you’re fine” with no color or contrast shifts, and it was all around a very “oooh. aaah.” experience.

This little guy has a screen roughly the same size as most of our cameras do, with a very simple and intuitive nav system most people can figure out easily without the manual, and enough built-in memory for hundreds of pictures. And it charges with USB, making it a great gift for modern office-dwellers.



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