Axion AXN-9702 7-Inch Widescreen LCD Digital Picture Frame with Clock, Calendar and Alarm

I bought the frame with a 1GB SD flash card. Then, it took me 5 minutes to resize 300+ picture into 640 X 480 resolution using the "edit Picture" function in MSFT's picture management tool (following a previous reviewer's excellent input). Remember to create a separate folder and copy pictures into that folder for resize, as picture management tool tends to overwrite the original jpg files with the resized / updated ones.

I loaded some mp3 files and the frame works flawlessly. The only gripe I have is that there are side bars not used on the frame. Probably, it can be resolved by pre-zooming pictures through the picture tool. Remote has "Zoom" function. But when you turn on zoom function, the slideshow ends.

Overall, considering what I got and what I paid, I give it a 5 stars. You can't beat 59 dollars while a Sony 9" frame goes for 240 dollars as comparison

Great product, it does everything advertised, you can't beat it for the price. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that the 1st one that I ordered did not work at all from the begining so, I was very disappointed but, Amazon shipped another one out almost immediately so, that almost made up for it and the second one works awesome. I put a 1GB SD card in it with 500 pictures and 50 songs on it and select Photo-Music and let it go all day long on my desk at work so, yes it does repeat unlike what a couple of people said in the reviews that I read before I purchased the Frame. Last but not least buy one you can't beat it for the price, I love it

I can't compare to other Digital Frames, but I bought this one as it was a good deal for playing pictures and music. I haven't experienced (or at least noticed) the resolution gripes that others have mentioned.
I do rather wish that the software/firmware that handles the photos and mp3s would be a little more flexible. You can choose a folder of photos to repeat, but there is no randomize function. When you choose to play music with the photos, it always starts from the same track - controls only handle which photos will be displayed in this mode. You can select music tracks if you set it to music playback only, but this product could do so much more with an upgrade tweak that could randomize pictures and music.

The Axion AXN-9702 is one of four frames that I have purchased over the past year and it is by far the best choice. Based on the average pictures frames the resolution on the Axion was clear and sharp, the colors are acurate and the sound is above average while the style was also above average. It's a 4.5 out of 5.

Pros:
- Low price (as far as picture frames go)
- Accepts many kinds of memory cards, including USB flash drives
- Remote included

Cons:
- Resolution is bad.
- Cannot randomize pictures (they show up in the same order all the time)
- Clock feature was defective on my unit

Overall, I would NOT recommend this product. I bought it as a present for my mother and I was disappointed with the quality of the picture as well as a few other bugs.

As I mentioned, the picture is bad. If you're looking directly at the frame from a good distance away (6-7 feet), it looks alright, but it's all downhill from there. If you get too close the images are grainy and there's very little visibility from the side (which has more to do with LCD than it does this frame in particular).

When we don't have pictures playing on the frame, we set it to the 'clock' mode, which displays a full-screen clock. Seems like a pretty good idea, but the time on this particular unit continuously changes itself. No matter how many times I go into the settings and change the time to the correct time, it constantly changes itself every few hours.

Finally, I was disappointed when I discovered that this frame does not have the capability to 'shuffle' pictures. This may have been an oversight on my part, because I simply assumed that all frames did this, but I found out the hard way that I was wrong. It may not seem like a big deal, but it gets a little annoying. If you load 20 pictures from the beach, then 20 pictures from a wedding, then 20 pictures from a birthday party, you're going to see ALL 20 beach pictures, then ALL 20 wedding pictures, etc. etc. It's easy to lose interest when all the pictures are from the same thing.

Like I said.. the price is good, but that's about all this thing has going for it. Don't make the same mistake I did; spend a few extra bucks and get a decent frame.