At $80 street, this 7-inch digital photo frame sounds like a steal. It displays images and videos in widescreen format, integrates small speakers to play MP3s, and is even smart enough to automatically rotate pics when you switch the orientation from portrait to landscape. The cheap price, however, gets you lousy images. The screen's low 480-by-234 resolution means boxy, jagged, and pixelated pictures reminiscent of old-school video-game images. I'm glad I reviewed the device: It confirmed my suspicion that you should steer clear of frames with resolutions as low as this one.

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The Cenomax F7024B is a bit flimsy-looking. You can remove the clear plastic surrounding the 6-by-3.4-inch LCD to insert one of the four included paper patterns to customize the frame. Each has a small cutout so that the remote control's IR receiver—a distracting eyesore mounted at the upper right-hand corner—is never blocked. The device accepts CF, MMC, MS, SD, and xD memory cards and has a USB 2.0 port to read flash thumb drives. Poor placement of the port causes any drive over an inch long to stick out past the side of the frame. Even big-name players sell frames that suffer from the same poor design—the HP df750 7-inch Digi