Thursday, 2 June 2011

Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital Frame


8-inch high quality LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio; KODAK Color Science give 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 MP3s with the frames built-in speakers

Store up to 4000 of your favorite pictures directly on your frames 512 MB of internal memory

2 SD card slots are available to allow you to have extra memory to view more pictures

Product Details

Product Dimensions:

12 x 8.8 x 3.8 inches ; 3.3 pounds

Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.

ASIN: B0016NJ7EK

Item model number: W820

Average Customer Review:



This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital FrameI bought the product as a gift for my parents. My hope was to buy a wireless digital picture frame that could download the latest family pictures to my parent's living room. In short: if this is what you want it to do, you're buying the wrong frame.The positives on this frame include: 1) bright, crisp display, 2) attractive packaging, 3) reasonable price to value (assuming wireless is a pre-requisite), and 4) good picture/video/music format support (you'll likely need to convert videos to MPEG though).But where it fell short was in my expectations. I didn't want to upload a static set of pictures to the frame's flash card - I wanted to have it download them daily from the web.So here are the shortcomings:1) Spotty wireless support - I couldn't ever get it to recognize my WPA-enabled wireless network. I could remove security or access it via WEP , but never could connect with WPA security on. Documentation here is non-existent.2) Poor computer software - The approach for putting pictures on the frame is to install software on your computer, and have your frame connect to your computer to download pictures. I couldn't do this, likely because my computer has a firewall. Unfortunately the user documentation doesn't provide any detail for me to troubleshoot and resolve.3) Limited web support - I tried to download pictures from Flickr, but it just hung the frame. I also tried downloading from Kodak Gallery, which actually did work, but was not really usable due to performance. The frame can easily download a few pictures from Kodak, but if you had 20+ pictures, it just sits there and hangs while it downloads each and every picture (not sure why they it can't download pictures in the background).4) Web vs. flash - You can set it up to either show pictures from the flash card, or show pictures from the web (with the restrictions in #3) - but not both. I guess I had hoped for an option to download pictures in the background from the web.So in short, it's actually a nice frame - but as with most Kodak products, suffers from poor software (both for the computer and frame)....

This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital FrameJust like almost everyone who bought this frame, I wanted it to stream from my Flickr account into my parents home.The usability of this frame is terrible. It drops wireless connection all the time, it freezes, and the UI is awful. The Kodak software you have to use to manage the frame is also terrible. Nothing is user friendly, nothing is intuitive. Even with the latest firmware and software updates. The slide UI is ridiculous and seldom works as expected. The lack of control over what streams from your Flickr account is also non-existent. I doubt my parents want to see all my contacts photos too.I realized after spending two frustrating days with this frame, that handing it over to my parents would be down right evil. If I was frustrated beyond belief with it, they would be completely lost. Run away from this frame if you are buying it for its wireless capabilities, you will lose many frustrating hours of your life to it, that you can never get back. Seriously, I had high hopes for this frame, and did my best to not let it beat me. I am now returning TWO of them. Why are you still reading? You should be running....

This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital FrameI will keep this review short and to the point as I am full of anger towards Kodak for selling this ill-executed garbage of a product.BackgroundI wanted to buy wifey a digital frame for her b'day. One that would easily be updated (wireless). I addition I wanted to buy my parents one so that they could see pictures that we uploaded to the web. Great thought. So we found the Kodak. They claim that they can connect wirelessly to Framechannel and other services and function through a homes wireless network. We received the framesWe got 2 per the above. Upon installing the first frame it kept on getting stuck in the boot frame. I could not get past it. So I tried 20 minutes of restarting and resetting. To no avail. Then I tried the second frame and that one booted through and started. I set it up and it worked... for about a day.Client serviceSo I got their South American client service on the line. They had NO CLUE about how these frames function. They had no clue how to speak English. Sorry, but the truth. Eventually I asked for a manager to talk to me as I wanted to get an RMA and they kept on saying that I needed to call the company I bought it from (I bought it directly from Kodak store, duh). Anyways, no luck there and finally someone from the Kodak store said they'd give me a refund if I would send it directly to them. The second one: after a day or so it would get stuck in the hourglass and when rebooting it would sometimes work and sometimes, for days, it would not work. I thought it was my internet (nothing else has a problem with it) so I tried using and SD card. Same symptom: after about 2 hrs it would freeze, reboot, get stuck and not work...




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