Dragon Touch Classic 15 Digital Picture Frame, 15.6” FHD Touch Screen WiFi Digital Photo Frame Instant Share Photos and Videos via App, Email,…
Original price was: $239.99.$149.99Current price is: $149.99.
Last updated on May 25, 2024 1:40 am Details
DBHammer –
Cool technology, with a few minor complaints. This frame is beyond other frames I’ve used in the past. Most of that has to do with technological advancements. The frame is legitimately 15”, which means it is about the size of a regular laptop screen. The touchscreen is very responsive and has some great uses. The remote which comes with the frame is also very helpful. It is cool that you can upload photos and videos straight from your phone. It is also cool that you can set alarms, check the weather, and have a calendar available. You can then play the videos and photos on the frame, which is cool when you’re showing off your last vacation!
The minor downsides are few, but still should be addressed. The screen, for its size is not quite as bright as I would like. In the sunlight and/or a well-lit room the screen appears somewhat dim at the highest setting. My other bigger complaint appears to be a formatting issue. I plugged in a flash drive and looked through the photos. Unfortunately, some of them were oriented incorrectly. I have the frame set up in a landscape view and many photos were oriented 90 degrees or even 180 degrees the wrong direction. To fix this, you have to go to each of these photos and flip them to the correct position. Just a note, if the flash drive is disconnected and reconnect you have to repeat this process.
All-in-all this frame works great and I’d definitely recommend it to anyone!
Nick DeMarco –
First, I was offered this product in exchange for a review. I’ll not shill for anyone, so this is my opinion. ** Update: After I wrote this review, the seller asked me to take it down. **
It’s a digital photo display device, so it needs photos. My photos are in the same place yours are: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc. They’re not in the DragonWorld. Strike one. Sure, there’s an app, but why? I should add my photos to an album (Google Photos, etc.) and that album links to this frame. I put photos in Grandma’s album, and she gets new photos in her living room.
Let’s get on to Strike 2: The image quality isn’t all that great. Colors are washed out as you move off angle. Sure, it’s a LCD, but the laptop I’m writing this review on is also a LCD, and off angle colors are quite sharp. This is a picture frame. It has to look good at all angles.
Now, for Strike 3: The price. I can get a lot of Amazon, Google, Facebook, and even Apple devices for about the same money as this 15 inch photo phrame. Sure, they’re subsidized and want me in their ecosystem. But that’s the reason. This might appeal to a select few who want to stay off the big data map. If that’s you, you can put a SD card into the frame and view pictures without connecting to anything – or are you connected???
Strike 4+ The USB port is a mini USB. Right, the weird one from 15-20 years ago that nobody uses. The remote comes without batteries. The front bezels are not remarkably finished.
Nah. This product just isn’t for me.
Michael A. Ray –
I got this for my birthday and have it loaded with a variety of family pics. Even though I’m a high-tech person (software developer with engineering degree), I often adhere to the KISS principle with technology so purposely set out to use as little of the bells and whistles this frame offers. To that end I discovered that you do NOT have to connect it to WiFi at all unlike what the instructions seem to indicate. Of course, if there are firmware or software updates, you would not get them unless you did so. There does not appear to be a way to check what firmware version is installed (unless you setup the frame?).
Not “setting up” the frame via WiFi also means you must use a USB stick or SD card to load images to it rather than FTP, email, app, etc.. I choose to load them to internal memory rather than keeping an external device connected all the time. It was easy to select everything on the device and copy it over. Perhaps that was because I placed everything in the root folder. It took about a minute to copy almost 500 images (some were low res like 640×480).
I’ll explain the only issue I had and why I deducted a star. The frame will sometimes shows pics that were taken in portrait orientation in landscape instead so the image is turned 90 degrees. Even if the picture was edited on the external device beforehand to have the correct orientation, the frame often doesn’t recognize that. Thus, you need to manually change the orientation of those images after loading into memory. Perhaps editing them into a completely new file would fix that? The frame does retain the correct orientation for them after a hard reboot (loss of power) unlike another reviewer claimed when keeping them on an external device. One other nitpick is you can’t play both photos and videos at the same time. I can’t think of any technical reason for that.
The screen is essentially identical to my laptop screen, 15.6″ at 1920×1080 resolution. It is plenty bright for our living room. In fact, I have turned brightness down to about 60% and have it on the side opposite the TV since I felt it would be distracting while watching movies in dimmer lighting. While I’m not a graphic artist, it has acceptable quality and color. By default, it was cutting off some images but I changed the auto size setting I believe it was. This will cause the older lower resolution images to appear grainier when enlarged, but I find that more acceptable than having the image fill only a quarter of the screen.
I’d recommend you give serious consideration to this unit if you’re looking for a good size digital photo frame.