Home > Consumer Reviews > Kodak Easyshare 10" Wi-Fi Digital Picture Frame

When you view your pictures on your frame over your wireless network, they are accessed from your computer via Windows Media Player 11 {using its sharing feature setting}, or over the internet from the Kodak Easyshare Gallery, providing you have an account. You can choose which pictures to view on your frame from either of these locations or from the inbuilt memory or an inserted memory card/s. They are all shown as connected devices. This means you can choose from any of 5 locations to view your pictures. I have a SD and CF card inserted at same time, pictures on my computer, the Gallery and in the inbuilt memory. Obviously your computer has to be on to access your pictures from it, but you can access the Gallery via your network at any time, using broadband {great!}.
If you connect a camera with the supplied cable you can also view those pictures straight away! or print to a PictBridge enabled printer.
The Frame shows your pictures as thumbnails which you can then initiate a slideshow or a single view and even magnify that picture. Folders are shown if you have them sorted that way.
Connecting the frame to your computer is easy to copy/edit your pictures, via windows or the Easyshare software using It`s inbuilt card reader, but you could just use a separate card reader. I found that only just over 100MB of the 128MB internal memory was available to use to though , {probably the inbuilt software}. If you copy pictures over via Easyshare software you have the option to optimise the pictures resolution for your frame thus reducing file size and space. I chose this option to utilize the inbuilt memory, I gained an extra 20MB or so and my pics look just as good. You can also copy pictures over to your computer from your frame via Wi-Fi using the Kodak Picture Transfer software supplied.
I have set the inbuilt on/off timer which shows a slide show of the internal memory by default at selectable times. The frame can still be turned on/off manually with this setting enabled.
There are a wide choice of slide show settings from a duration of 3 seconds to 1 hour and various transitions, which are smooth. I don't care much for it playing music at same time personally, though it works well.
So far my frame won't display "any" videos "unsupported file format" I have tried MOV, AVI and even MP4 all of which don't work on my frame, so far no help from Kodak even with upgraded firmware, reason I haven't returned it is, I didn't buy it for it's video playback feature.
I love the look of this frame but not the widescreen format as some of my pictures get cropped {unless you don't edit first}, using the "fill screen" option or if you choose "fit to screen" you end up with black bars at the sides. Resolution is fine as long as you don't get up close but my camera is only 3.1MP. You can adjust the brightness but no contrast option.
The remote is a nice little addition, works only in direct site though and it's not that solid.
A more in-depth instruction manual is available on Kodak's website.

Pros:
The screen is great. Images look fantastic.

Cons:
Doesn't do what I bought it for. I got it as a means for my brother and I to send pictures back to our technophobic mother, via the Kodak Gallery web account feature, so she doesn't have to use a computer (which she hates), or have to endure other complex and confusing interactions with technology. I'd expected that we could upload photos to the web gallery, and they'd appear on the screen. But it doesn't do that: to refresh the displayed image(s) from the web account requires a tortuous sequence of button presses on the remote, with long pauses while it thinks to itself. I don't think my mother is going to "get" that. It's possible to make it turn itself off at night, but when it restarts, it doesn't go back to displaying an image: it goes to the start menu, forcing my mother to spend 30 seconds fiddling with the menus every morning to get a picture back on the screen.

Why, oh why, didn't Kodak get this right, and make it return to the previous function when it is turned on?

Clearly some have been luckier than others. I bought our frame as a Christmas present for my wife, specifically so that she could view photos stored on a PC via our Belkin 82g wireless network. Fool that I was!

The frame is great at displaying pictures and I've had no trouble with displays from USB stick, SD card and the easy-to-create (if time consuming) Kodak gallery albums. But, despite turning off my Network Firewall, the frame only occasionally (twice since Xmas) deigns to recognise the PC. It obviously recognises the network or it wouldn't be able to contact the Kodak gallery.

Contacting Kodak Customer Support via email (no, I am not prepared to hang on for hours to an 0870 number) provided two "customer reference" numbers and two "case numbers" but nothing else of use. I had two phone calls - one, like reviewer Anthony Gibb, promised a call the following day from a technician, which unsurprisingly didn't come - the other, this week (8 weeks since my original email) asked what my problem was.

I had sent 2 extremely detailed emails, quoting software version numbers etc, which needless to say hadn't reached the caller (I think from a call-centre on the Indian sub-continent). When I had repeated details of the problem, I was told that Kodak does not offer any support or suggestions regarding WiFi network problems. This caller didn't know the name of his Chief Executive and the UK office refused to give it over the phone, so no point in trying to reach the Organ Grinder.

To say that Kodak Customer Support is rubbish is to heap it with bountiful praise.

A good frame for displaying pictures but dodgy WiFi capability. Caveat emptor.

This frame is BRILLIANT in all senses of the word !! Other reviews implied that the Wi-Fi configuration was difficult to setup. I just followed the instructions in the comprehensive user manuals and it was set up in 10 minutes. The frame and computer showed the exact screens that were displayed in the manuals - no guessing which option to take - perfect.

The photos displayed wirelessly over my home network are clear and bright with no delays between different photos and the various transitions were smooth.

This is definitely a 10 out of 10 product. Well done Kodak !!

The picture quality of this product is OK but the software is staggeringly poor- there is no option to play photos at random or to resume where you last were. The result is that it insists on starting with the same photo in a slide show and then following the same order every time- unless you have it running 24 hours, you'll never get to the last photos in the list. For me these faults mean it's not really worth having.