Customer Reviews

Tao 89862 1.4-Inch Square Digital Picture Keychain (Black)

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(21)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

The simulated picture of this product is a huge fake. After spending an hour choosing and editing photos using the TAO software I was hugely disappointed at the very poor display quality. You can easily see each individual pixel in the display, and you can't make out more then 60% of the pictures I transfered to the keychain. Its even worse that the company preloads this device with pictures perfectly optimized for the display to give you a false sense of hope that your pictures may look ok. This would be a fun toy for maybe $15 dollars but this currently is huge rip off and a poor quality product.

The product image uses a simulated picture. On the real device, I can literally see and count the individual pixels of the display. Don't waste your money on this type of item util the resolution is greatly improved.

Everything about this item is great! The size, the ease of syncing photos with your device (only downside is once you load a photo, you cant change the order of the pictures). The worst part of this, is the quality of the display, its not what you see on the website. This is very pixilated. You will barely make out the photos (and I use a 6 megapixel camera). DO NOT BUY! I thought it was going to make the perfect present for one of my friends who is going on her round the world trip, but this is such a POS, that I can't give it to her.

I have the Brookstone version and it is the same make. I don't usually write reviews but I felt obligated to since I feel people shouldn't waste money and time to return. I bought it for my wife and was excited to have it all set up with pictures as she opened it for Christmas. To my disappointment the picture quality was horrible. I tried the resizing and nothing helped (have been working with digital pictures for the past 7 years...7,000+ pictures now). The only thing that did look decent was a full face shot with nothing else but the face (even that wasn't that great but at least viewable). Don't buy if you have any sense of enjoying a decent picture. Also was alot bulkier that I expected - a bit much for carrying around on a keychain. Gave 2 stars for the ease of the software. 1 star for picture quality.

First, how much can you expect from a $50 item that holds that many photos? I bought one of these for each of my parents (in their 60's). They're wonderful little token gifts that they can carry around with them and feel like they have a lot of pictures of their grandchildren and family. The quality of the pictures is not great - actually, borderline good. Very grainy - sometimes hard to see. But, again - what can you expect?

If you're looking for a nice little gift for a family member who doesn't use digital cameras, isn't tech savvy, and will be impressed by the fact that you can even store pictures on such a small device - this is a great gift. If you're into technology and use digital cameras, photo software and know what it means to download/upload - this will probably not meet your expectations.

I give it 4 stars as far as gift value goes. If I were rating the technology alone - it would be 1 or 2.

Hope that helps! We're keeping ours for the grandparents - but they probably aren't things we'd buy for ourselves.

I just downloaded photos and put them on this keychain to give to my Mother for Christmas. Now, the photo quality isn't like a computer screen BUT I think it was pretty good for how small the item is. You can make out the photos just fine and I think it is a great item. My mom will love this. I wasn't expecting the photos to look perfect but they looked way better than what I was expecting due to the reviews of this product. I like it! Easy downloading, too.

Bought 3 of them, 2 were bright and 1 was dark. I talked to support at TAO and they are replacing the dark one. The difference in the bright and dark was immense and the brightness really makes a difference in viewing. OK, the picture quality could be better BUT for the novel idea the price really isn't all that bad (I don't think anyway...). I would have loved to pass out digital picture frames as gifts, but since those are hard to find at under $200 each, $43 each for the concept will do. (I should mention that these are for people who take tons of digital pictures and enjoy novel things...) These come in a nice gift box too...

Picture quality is so BAD the item should be sold for $5 or $10 bucks. Great idea but techonogy is poor. Wait until next year when someone else can get it right.

Cute, more of a novelty than anything else. Great for grandma but little else. It's just too small and the quality is very poor. My Nokia cell phone has more clarity. If this sold for $xxx, it would be an awesome deal. At $xxx, I say stay away, not worth it. The idea is fantastic but it displays like a dollar store item.

Wait for a newer version that might boost the resolution a bit.

I got the Digital Keychain for my wife, so she could carry pictures of our 3 grandchildren. I had to download the Mac software from the Tao website to load the photos, but everything then went pretty smoothly. My wife really likes the result.

The hardware gets 5 stars - it works as advertised, and the photos look pretty good for a very small screen.

The software gets 3 1/2 stars. It crashed once, but since then it's been stable. It does a good job of letting me crop pictures (which is important, since only closeups are useful on the small LCD screen). It took some trial and error to find out the best way to use the software:

1. Select each desired photo, and edit it to add to a "collection".

2. Transfer the collection to the keycain.

3. Save the collection as a file.

4. When you later want to add more photos, do not open the old collection. Just start aother collection and add the new photos. Then transfer the additional photos to the keychain. If you add the photos to the original collection, and then transfer that, you wll end up with two copies of your original photos on the keychain.