HP’s new DreamScreen 100 and 130 aren’t your usual digital picture frames, but they will function in pretty much the same way. They also happen to stream photos, music, play videos, connect to Pandora, and manage to handle social networking too.
The DreamScreen 100 sports a 10.2-inch screen and the 130 has a 13.3-inch screen. Both have 2GB of built-in storage and a flash card reader and USB for more room. You can load content through storage or via drag-and-drop software on the PC. It will stream audio and photos but not video.
Some other features include Facebook, Pandora and Snapfish photos support, all controlled by either the remote or by buttons on the device itself. The DreamScreen 100 is available now for $250 and the DreamScreen 130 will be available this fall for $300.
[Gizmodo]
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Same screen and pricepoint as a netbook, but much more limited functionality — what’s not to love? Where there may be some market for a cheap tablet PC, without a touchscreen, I don’t see what the target market is for this device. You could use the USB to plug in a keyboard, mouse, and flash memory, but then you’d just have a really awkward netbook at a higher pricepoint. The necessity of re-writing all applications to handle the limited user input on this device is going to doom it in the marketplace.