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| Review Date: August 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: T. Wijaya, California, USA |
It works.
Just need to upgrade to the latest firmware
(Mine is using oct 2008). I am able to connect using my G router (WPA2 Personal - AES). So for those that claim it does not work, well it works for me.
I am using it to stream the google picasa and facebook to my living room. Works pretty well.
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Best frame value by far if you need remote mgmt, Frame Channel is key
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| Review Date: January 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Hole, North Carolina |
I purchased this frame for my elderly mother and father as they live out of town and are not able/comfortable with updating the Kodak M820 (same but no wifi) frame that we gave them for Christmas in 2008. Before installing at their house, I setup and tested the frame thoroughly at my own home and in a nutshell I was blown away at the overall value of this frame. I updated the firmware immediately, and the wifi connection to my home network was easy, however it takes some time to select your passcode by arrowing thru the alphabet, but it's only done once in setup. Colors are vivid, and I found the best picture quality by using a high quality jpeg compression and "not" allowing the frame to fill the screen w/ the image.
For total remote control, the key feature is Frame Channel. I ended up using Frame Channel ONLY (no internal memory/cards) which allows complete and total remote control via the Frame Channel website. Using the Frame Channel website you can select any manner of RSS feeds, upload photos to the frame, configure a wide range of premade services such as weather 4cast/radar, news feeds, etc. I found this worked very reliably and my parents loved the weather services along w/ family photos. You can upload photos via the website, or any authorized users can email photos to the Frame Channel service and they will automatically appear. ([...]) I tested this from Android phone and PC and it worked like a champ, so all family can participate easily, plus you or your parents can moderate, delete any unwanted photos easily from the website and it will update the frame within minutes.
If your parents have wifi access, this frame is a no brainer and an excellent value. We are now considering getting one ourselves as during the testing we got used to the regular weather updates, weather radar, famous birthdays on this date, and other feeds that our standard digital frame doesn't provide. |
Ignore old reviews - firmware update fixed everything
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| Review Date: December 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Just a guy, Westchester, NY |
If I were you, I would ignore the older Amazon reviews. There is a new firmware update that really makes this frame amazing. Right out of the box, my frame found my WAP wifi in my house. It was a pain to enter the security key, but whatever - you only do that once. It then automatically found the firmware update and, about 5 minutes later, my frame had downloaded and installed the update.
Importantly, I have NEVER loaded any software onto a computer or even connected it via the USB. I found that framechannel - which is included in the firmware update - does everything I could need.
I have my Picassa web album updated into framechannel and that runs on the frame. Direct your web browser to framechannel and set up an account. You can even run a simulation of what it will look like on the frame - all before you buy anything.
This thing is really amazing. I have rss feeds, photos, weather, sports scores and more all randomly displayed on the frame in my living room.
My only complaint is size. This is 16:9, so horizontal photos look fine (even cropped), but the vertical photos are only about four inches tall. (The screen is 7" x 4")
You can even set the frame to turn on and off at certain times of the day.
I am really happy with this frame. At this size, the picture quality is fine - there is no issue with low resolution. |
A quick review of a great product
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| Review Date: January 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Mehmed Cem Akatay, West Lafayette, IN, USA |
I bought this frame as new year gift for my mother overseas. The wireless capability and the RSS feed are the most great things for me on this frame. I set it up when I was there and now I can easily feed the frame via web with recent photos of mine and she is amazed with that.
The web-portal is easy to use and there are multiple ways of feeding photos to the frame. Now, my brother in Switzerland also feeds the frame with his photos and this makes our mother much more happy!
We decided to upload photos to Picasa and then using the web-portal (kodak.framechannel.com) we can select which of the Picasa albums to run on the frame, we can set the priorities to different feed channels and many other useful setting options are available.
The resolution of the frame is not great, you may not see the fine details on the pictures but the colors are really bright and as a frame that provides enough satisfaction for all of us.
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WOW!!!
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| Review Date: December 7, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Peter Galamaga, Bedford, NH |
I am puzzled by the negative reviews here. My suspicion is that some of these folks are technologically challenged or have their own wifi issues aside from the frame.
I've had this for a week and LOVE it.
(BTW - it DOES work for the MAC. You just get the software online from KODAK)
Great slideshows and I easily added music with a cheap SD card!
The biggest benefit is that online photo storage is FREE (unlike the CEIVA frame which we disconnected due to an expensive yearly fee) and sharable. Also - FREE Internet RSS links.
The only problem - getting the family to the dinner table because they are entranced by the slideshow!
$99????? WOW!!!! |
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