Parrot Frees your Photos from Mobile Phones

April 2006 – Got great pictures on your Bluetooth camera phone? Parrot, world innovator in Bluetooth technology, lets you transfer them instantly, easily and wirelessly to a digital photo frame. Simply select the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER in the list of Bluetooth devices on your phone or computer. Then select the picture you want to display and send it to the frame via Bluetooth. The picture is instantly converted to the size of the screen. The frame also instantly selects either portrait or landscape format depending on its position (vertical or horizontal.) If you change the frame position, the photo automatically and instantly adjusts.

“Within seconds of taking a photo, you can enjoy a high-resolution picture on the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER. This is the ‘world’s first’ use of Bluetooth technology paired with a stylish digital picture frame,” said Edward Valdez, president and chief operating officer of Parrot, Inc.

Parrot has given special attention to the elegant design of the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER, which is available in several colors of leather as well as bleached oak. Benefits and features of the Parrot PHOTO VIEWER include:

•  Wireless Bluetooth transfer of photos
• Universal compatibility with Bluetooth-enabled phones
• Pictures instantly converted to the size of the screen
• Pictures instantly adjusted to the position of the frame (horizontal/vertical)
• Automatic adjustment of the LCD screen luminosity
• Ultra-simplified use
• Contemporary elegant and design Technical characteristics:
• Bluetooth digital photo frame
• TFT screen with 320*234 pixels
• 262,144 color display
• Bluetooth 1.2
• Bluetooth BIP, OPP and FTP profiles
• 32 MB internal memory for storing over 100 JPEG images
• Software-controlled image resizing
• Accepts JPEG images from 700 K to 7M pixels
• Portrait or landscape position sensor
• Light sensor
• Fixed display and slideshow functions
• Size of frame in leather or white-leaded oak: 3”x5”; digital image: 2.75” x 2”

The Parrot PHOTO VIEWER, priced at MSRP of $279, joins Parrot’s portfolio of wireless and hands-free products that now includes the Parrot SOUND SYSTEM (wireless hi-fi transfer of MP3 audio files from a Bluetooth phone or computer), Parrot DRIVER HEADSET (Plug & Play that charges in a vehicle cigarette lighter or accessory plug), 3400 LS-GPS (award winning car kit with GPS antenna and color LCD for Photo Caller ID), PARROT 3200 LS-COLOR (with color LCD for Photo Caller ID), RHYTHM N’ BLUE (AM/FM/CD/MP3 auto stereo receiver with integrated Bluetooth phone function) EASY-DRIVE (Plug & Play), CK3000 EVOLUTION (with trimline keypad), CK3100 (with LCD), CK3300 GPS (with GPS antenna).

SOURCE Parrot