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PRODUCT FEATURES:10 in. (25.4 cm) high-quality displayWi-Fi enabledKodak's Quick Touch BorderAccess the latest news, weather, sports, and moreAutomatically send and receive pictures from Kodak Gallery members right on your frame with the Picture Mail feature - simply touch along the bottom and right hand side of the border of the frame to navigate menus.View news, weather, and sports updates to stay informed throughout the day, plus humor, horoscope, sports, traffic, and more - powered by Framechannel.
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Technical Details
- 10-inch high quality LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio; KODAK Color Science gives your pictures crisp details and vibrant colors- Wireless access to pictures on your home computer and leading photo sharing sites featuring Kodak Gallery and Flickr with built-in Wi-Fi capability
- Play your videos or listen to your favorite MP3’s with the frame’s built-in speakers.
- Store up to 4000 of your favorite pictures directly on your frame’s 512 MB of internal memory
- 2 SD card slots are available to allow you to have extra memory to view more pictures
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By Consumer (Orange County, CA)
It looks nice but it is not without it's issues. My husband is super tech savvy. He never could figure a way to get flickr to work with this frame. The Kodak website worked fine. However, my MIL, who received this as a gift has discovered some pictures that I did not put on the Kodak site. They were from a friend who shared her photos with me a while back. Weird thing is I can't access them through my account, so I don't know how they showed up on the frame and I can't seem to take them off. I guess I need to talk to my friend and get her to take my email off of her account. Oy! It also does not grab new photos from the account until it is reset. By reset I mean that the whole frame turns off for a specified amount of time and then reboots up. We set it up to reset in the middle of the night, but if the power goes out for some reason the clock has to be reset. Since we live 2400 miles away, Grandma has to do it. This sort of defeats the purpose of setting it up so she doesn't have to learn all the confusing buttons. The idea was for her to get new pictures of the baby suddenly pop up on the screen. She could be walking by and see new pictures. A few of the times, when it reset it went to the default internal pictures that came with the frame. You needed to go into the menu and make it look at the Kodak account again. We could never find a reason why it did that. Cute concept, but it has a few flaws. Kodak needs to figure a way for the frame to check the online account more frequently to get updates rather then needing a timer set internally. They need to make it work better with flickr, which is a free site. Using the Kodak site means that I have to make a purchase of photo prints every year from them to keep the account open. Otherwise they delete my pictures. Very coy, Kodak and what a lovely way to make more money and screw the customer over. With the amount of money I spent on this frame, I should be able to use the Kodak website for free to get the pictures. So if Grandma has no idea how to set up wifi much less a digital frame and can't understand what an online account is, this is not the gift for her. If she is pretty savvy to fix issues then it might work out okay. And if you don't mind ordering prints from Kodak, then go ahead. I can get them much cheaper through other websites, so I will order the minimum requirement each year so I can keep the account open.
By Mark Roth (Brooklyn, NY USA)
I purchased 4 of these for relatives because I thought it would be a great way to share photos with them without having to instruct them how to get the pictures on the frame. Mission accomplished, at first, but then the hardware quality issues started.
Within a year, I had to return 3 of the 4 frames. One would lock up and continuously reboot itself. The second developed a vertical green bar on the screen. The third lost the menu option to connect wirelessly and even a factory reset and firmware reload wouldn't help.
Kodak honored the warranty with no issues. I received 3 refurbished replacement frames and tested them. Of the three, one of them didn't boot. I had to send that one back as well. I just received it in the mail and it's already having sporadic problems where the screen will flicker or an hourglass will come up and never disappear.
If it weren't for the hardware issues, I would really like this frame.
By C. Alcott (McKinney, TX USA)
Like many others, I did lots of research looking for wireless digital frames with the idea of giving them as gifts to my parents and in-laws, and having them constantly show photos of the kids and grandkids, with little to no effort on the receiver's part. The picture quality is great, and the touch-screen controls are sleek and invisible. This frame has many features, but I'm focusing this review on how I set it up to do what lots of other people want it to do, using Framechannel and Flickr. Here's what I did:
1. Set up a free dedicated Flickr account for the frame.
2. Send Flickr login/password info to my siblings so they can upload pictures too, instructing them to keep the photos horizontal and if possible, crop them to 800 x 480 pixels (you can do this from Flickr with the embedded "picnik" application on the Flickr site. The cropping/resizing is not absolutely necessary, but it avoids empty black areas to the left and right of the photo and fills the screen beautifully.)
3. Set up a Framechannel account for the frame, and set it to feed from the Flickr channel, and sprinkle in some weather, calendar, and sports score slides.
We have NO photos stored in the internal memory, none coming from their local computers, none being emailed - all photos are in the dedicated Flickr account.
I'm sure there are other methods of accomplishing the same thing, such as the emailing photos directly to the frame, but we decided to keep it simple, and only use the Flickr site, fed through Framechannel.
Both my parents and my in-law's frames are up and running, and they are both thrilled with the frames. And I can control what appears in their living rooms from halfway across the country!
By Joseph M. Busher (Hartford, CT United States)
I was able to purchase for $125 at a local electronics store. For the price, the features are exceptional and the picture quality is good. I would recommend this with some caveats as noted below.
Here are some tips:
1. Follow the install sequence precisely to get it set up correctly out of the box. Install the software first and completely before trying to connect the frame to the network.
2. The software is quirky and crashes. Use the repair function on the supplied CD after crashes to repair. While time consuming, this does get it working smoothly eventually. After it was fully set up, there have been no additional crashes.
3. If you have many pics and videos on your computer that you'd like to access via wifi, I'd recommend sticking to the pics only. To avoid some of the problems reported by others I'd recommend sorting your pics into folders by year (or some manageable size folders of 2-6 GB). I used photoshop select and copy the pics by year, copying them to an internal hard drive (C:) folder from an external (which seemed to help with wifi access, faster?). Then from the frame, access the pics by folder. This helps avoid the problem of crashes that occurs if you try to access all wifi pics at once. This is not an ideal solution since I had hoped to have the frame access all of my network pics without intervention, but it does work.
Overall, the frame is a good value but do not expect perfection and plan on spending a couple of hours to get it working to your satisfaction.
By Criminologist (Canada)
The W1020 works well enough for me. I see plenty of things that could use improvement, but in this case I think it's because any product that breaks new ground opens up a lot of possibilities. The 16:9 aspect ratio is wrong for a photo frame, and the resolution is a bit coarse when you look too closely, but it's good enough. I wish Kodak had included the ability to connect to Windows shared folders on my network, but there are several other ways to accomplish the goal of streaming photos to the frame. I wish that the FrameChannel feed supported slide transitions the way local slide shows do, but overall I'm impressed with it. It's maybe a bit overpriced considering that other frames are getting WiFi and touch borders now, but at least Kodak is showing some 2nd-gen improvement.
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