Axion AXN-9702 7-Inch Widescreen LCD Digital Picture Frame with Clock, Calendar and Alarm
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Axion AXN-9702 7-Inch Widescreen LCD Digital Picture Frame with Clock, Calendar and Alarm
Customer Review: Challenge for those with time to kill
Summary: 2 Stars
Cryptic, instructions written & translated by a middle school English student in China. Hard to tell if important functions were overlooked in design/manufacture or translation. Since the remote (which lacked instructions) did not work, all set up had to be done with the rear panel buttons. It still doesn't recognize pictures stored on SD or memory stick. It did recognize and use files on a USB flash drive. It plays them in the same sequence, with no control over presentation or order.
After spending two evenings and half a Saturday getting images to load and play, I have made no attempt for audio files. With only a 1" speaker I suspect anything more than MIDI files would be very disappointing to irritating played repeatedly in the same sequence.
But it's the holidays, so I'll generously give it 2 stars. If further discounted, it will be a cheap stocking stuffer that will keep young ones challenged and engaged for many hours to get functional.
Customer Review: Buggy and lousy resolution
Summary: 2 Stars
I exchanged it for Kodak's P720. When it comes to digital photo frames, you definitely get what you pay for. The Kodak frame didn't impress me much as far as picture quality goes, but at least it does what it says it will do. More than can be said for the Axion, which doesn't even tell you what resolution it supports, and refuses to play all the MP3's you give it. Also, forget using the internal memory on the frame, unless you only want one song and 15 photos. I tried to use it with a thumb drive loaded with songs and photos.Customer Review: Freeze's up
Summary: 2 Stars
It's nice looking products but it freeze's up all the time. Amazon has been great trying to right this with me.Customer Review: Made in China
Summary: 1 Stars
I just received my AXN-9702, and it only took me 15 minutes to realize it was a low quality product. "Made in China", it says on the bottom.
The documentation is sparse and is written in poorly interpreted English. For example, on the outside of the box it says, "Powerful Built-In a Speaker" (no, the "a" is not my typo - it really says that on the box). The User Manual is not a book, but rather a fan-folded piece of paper with front-and-back print. There is no information whatsoever on how data is allowed to reside on your flash drive or memory card. The instructions, again in bad English, are also misleading. For example, here is the actual directions provided in the User Manual for "Basic play" (all capitalization and punctuation verbatim to manual): <first paragraph> "Power on the unit then enter the main menu, the screen shows 8 functions, e.g.: photo, music, photo + music, setup, calendar, clock, alarm and copy/delete." <second paragraph> "Insert a USB data traveler or SD/MMC/XD/MS card first, press NAVIGATION BUTTON to select one of the following function." That is the entire instructions for Basic Play. Note that your USB flash drive is called a USB data traveler, not a flash drive.
I loaded my pictures on a Sony MemoryStick and inserted it into the frame, but it would not read them. I then took the same MemoryStick, put it in my MemoryStick reader (that plugs into a USB port and reads the MemoryStick as a flash drive), then plugged the reader into the USB port on the frame. The pictures read fine. I reversed the process and verified that the frame was unable to read the MemoryStick in the MemoryStick port (i.e. the unit had a defective card reader).
Lastly, the digital picture resolution is low, making straight lines on photos look jagged.
I am glad that Amazon has an easy Return policy. I am disappointed in many aspects of this unit. Poor quality workmanship, poor documentation, poor picture.
Customer Review: Crappy Backlight.. It goes out...
Summary: 1 Stars
So my husband bought this for me because we are both stationed in iraq and instead of having a lot of photos sitting around, he thought this would be perfect for me to set on my desk. It was a great product for about a month. It was nice because I share my desk and instead of him having to look at MY photo's, he could just put it on the "clock" mode and it was perfect. BUT.. Here comes the downer. The backlight of this product went out. It was never dropped. I made sure that it was not, it was planted very firmly onto my desk. But one day I came to work and my co-worker said that it just went out. I know it is my backlight because I can still see the photo's scroll across but they are VERY dark I can barely see it. I would return it but 1. my husband bought it and 2. I've already had it for a little over a month now and you cannot return it after so long. So I give this a rating of CRAP! because I really didn't even get to enjoy it. So now I am going to have to find another one. So just keep in mind that the backlight may go out on you...