Home > Consumer Reviews > Kodak P520 5 inch Digital Picture Frame - Touch Sensitive Controls, 2 SD Card Sots & USB Input - White

Like one of the other reviewers I bought this as a Christmas gift and was confused by the huge amount of Digital Photo Frames on the market. In the end, based on mostly positive reviews whereever I could find them, I went for Kodak's P720 and I can only highly recommend it. I wanted an inexpensive gadget only to loop through a slide show of images - I wasn't interested in sound or video, so this was ideal. I read a negative review saying when you view faces close up they have no definition but I don't agree - as long as your picture is of a decent enough size then this gadget copes extremely well. I'm really pleased with the way the images are shown, even shocked at the quality - the backlighting is lovely and the colours are very true. The interface is very intuitive but don't try pressing the screen like I did at first, as its not touch screen, its activated by touching the frame. The only slightly negative point I have to make about this, is I expected to be able to copy images from my USB thumb drive/SD card onto the device itself. Maybe it was foolish of me, but I did think there was a little bit of internal storage which would hold the images to display. I was wrong - you need to leave your USB/card permanently connected to the device in order to show the images. I would recommend buying a USB drive as a gift to go with this - even if its just a small capacity one. For USB drives also, this can't look inside directory structures, so save all the images you need to display in the root of the drive.

this is my first purchase of a digital picture frame, a xmas gift, and i was a bit swamped by all of the products available. from helpful customer reviews i narrowed it down to either kodak or phillips, and the price cut and emphasis on ease of use clinched it. the quality seems excellent to me, the touch border operations will be a doddle for doting grandparent to use, true, no remote is better in this case. the software included makes everything so easy, i cannot emphasise the ease of use enough. i have nearly 500 photos on a 2gb card, its a wonderful present!

This is amazingly good value. Does everything and all with NO FIDDLY REMOTE. The last frame I had was not a Kodak one (it was a gift) and it was good - it got me interested in digital frames (didn't like the idea at first), but the quality wasn't as good as a Kodak one and what you can do with this is much MUCH better. Highly recommended.

I bought this frame as a gift and I have to say it is fantastic for the price. I am always dubious about the really cheap frames, and the Kodak name settled it for me.

The touch frame, and the looks are superb and I really enjoyed watching pictures on the frame.

Only criticisms? Resolution can sometimes be a bit unclear if I am being harsh and the menus are not the most intuitive and can be a bit slow in responding to the touch.

My advice would be to buy an SD card to keep with the frame and load pictures onto rather than use the one in your camera. For £2 makes up for the lack of internal memory and this price you can't complain.

I have just bought this as a Christmas gift for my technophobic mother so that she can see the family's digital photos at her leisure since we are too Scottish to ever print them out on paper for her. I've just opened it up and tried it out for the first time and it has surprisingly good resolution, very good brightness, and plenty of slide show options. However despite other reviewers claiming ease of use, I would disagree (and I am a young technophile with years of VCR, PC, iPod and Microwave experience).

The menu system is slow and browsing thumbnails also takes time, especially when there are a high number of pictures on the card. There is a delay on every operation. Selecting, copying, and deleting photos is clunky and irrational - I immediately deleted the wrong photo by accident because I had it "selected" while actually viewing another (solution: lock your memory cards, read-only your USB sticks).

But the biggest annoyance is the completely counter-intuitive scrolling operation. By western conventions, if I want to look at the next photo, I will press the forward or right hand arrow. But on this device you press the left hand arrow - pointing backwards. This is because Kodak have tried to be overly clever with a dragging operation which just gets tired (and irritates my finger) after browsing through more than a couple of photos. What's wrong with pressing the right hand side of the frame to look at the next photo, and pressing the left hand side to look at the previous one!! The software supplied is also slow and not intuitive to use.

In conclusion, I will see how my mother gets on with this (hopefully she'll do fine), but I fear that she will be too baffled by the controls and too scared of deleting photos to actually use it for browsing when I'm not around - so it will remain purely for slideshows.

Disappointing Kodak - you can do better.