Customer Reviews

BROOKSTONE PICTURE BOOK MINI DIGITAL PHOTO KEY CHAIN - HOLDS 56 COLOR PHOTOS, BUILT IN 8 MB OF MEMORY, AUTO RESIZE PHOTOS TO FIT SCREEN, HIGH RESOLUTION 1.4" LCD COLOR SCREEN,RECHARGABLE BATTERY 2.5 HOURS OF VIEWING TIME,FAST EASY DOWNLOADS FROM PC,OR MAC, WITH INCL.SOFTWARE, CONNECTS TO COMPUTER WITH USB CORD

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I purchased 4 of these units for my wife and children. They arrived promptly and all worked. The concept is great, and I feel the $50 price is ok. I give this product less than 5 stars because of the cumbersome software included, which is necessary to load the digital pictures onto the unit itself. In addition, the resolution, while barely adequate, is much less than I expected. I haven't been able to find any specs as to the number of pixels. I'll guess 160 x 160.

Tips for best use of this software:
Any disconnect of the keychain device before, during and after downloading will immediately kill the program, so be sure to save your working pictures at regular intervals.

Save your work before downloading, as the program will clear the working buffers without giving you the opportunity to save it --- a problem if you want to retain your edits.

The resolution of this display is extremely small, so use their software to crop as much out of the picture as you can before saving it to the work area. The cropping forces the same width to length constraints regardless of the size of the cropping. Portrait-oriented images require the most creative use of the crop tool.

The brightness and contrast change options are adequate, but I recommend that you do as much as possible with your camera's post-processing software before using the Brookstone supplied software.

This photo keychain has a sleek design and nice user interface. The software is so-so - easy to navigate, but very limited photo-editing capability. My main criticism is the screen resolution is terrible. It's very grainy, like the first digital camera I bought in 1996. With today's amazing advances in miniaturization of memory and displays, this device should have crystal-clear photos, not blurry ones.

All-in-all, ALMOST a terrific product, and still a good product if you don't mind the grainy display.

well this is a really neat gift idea..however I tried to add a few pics to it before i gave it to my sister for xmas, & I downloaded the CD...well then when i connected the keychain it said "could not connect. sO i Called brookstone, who does not have any tech support, and they told me the only time you should use the CD was if you have anything less than XP...well I have XP. this whole thing is just not user friendly...so if anyone has any IDEA how to use this thig will you PLEASE let me know??? thanks much !

I purchased one as a gift for my father-in-law. When I would use the software to download pictures to the device, the software would often just terminate and I'd find myself back at my Windows desktop screen. It doesn't happen on all photo folders and I can't understand why it does it on some folders, but not others. Brookstone has no real support for the software either. Took me hours to download 60 pictures to the device.

I got this as a gift for my husband for Valentine's Day. He loved it! The picture quality could be a little better, but as for ease of use and attractiveness, it's a very good product.

It was a gift for my mom. She loves it. She puts pictures of everything she wants to show off and takes it with her. We both are pleased with the quality of the product. The price is very reasonable. I would buy this again and again.

I bought this keychain for my wife and I can't tell you how much she loved it. I loaded it up with pictures of my son and she thinks it is great, and cool, to whip it out when someone asks about our son. Really fantastic.

The software for this device is awful. The manufacturer really needs to get on the ball and resolve these issues. The installation program keeps looking for drivers that are not on my system. I found several missing files by searching the internet but it was an excessive amount of work. The program still does not function correctly and causes our computer to crash. My wife is in tears, this was a Christmas gift from her sister.

I received this as a Christmas gift. It sure seems like a neat idea to give someone, but I'll never know because I have a Mac. Really odd that the company does not support a Mac compatible download to fix this (oversight). I only hope my sister likes it:(

Got it for grandpa, spent an hour setting it up. And it worked while connected to computer and outlet. but the power button didn't work. So when I went to turn it on it would not do anything.
Then I had a second one, and my computer kept flashing warning signs and checking for viruses on an unsafe device. I just don't trust it and will be returning them both very shortly.