Kodak Easyshare W1020 10-Inch Wireless Digital Frame

by Kodak

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 9.8 x 3.5 inches ; 3.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016NOTOI
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: W1020
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 10, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

The new Kodak EasyShare W1020 10-Inch Wireless Digital Frame comes with built-in wi-fi, making it super-easy to share and receive photos wirelessly from friends and family. You can even personalize your frame with RSS feeds. The W1020 also features interchangeable faceplates and includes fun features like the ability to play MP3s and create on-frame multimedia shows modes.

Kodak W1020 Highlights

Viewing excellence
View your pictures on the 10 in. (25.4 cm) 16:9 wide screen featuring KODAK Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail. The W1020 is also optimized with KODAK Light Management Film to provide a bright, clear display with excellent viewing angles.

Wireless access and sharing
Access pictures on your home computer and leading photo sharing web sites featuring the KODAK Gallery and FLICKR with built-in Wi-Fi capability.

• Wireless feature gives you access to your photo collection on your PC no matter where you are in your home
• Kodak's Picture Mail feature lets you send and receive pictures directly on your frame from family and friends via KODAK Gallery plus, your frame will let you know when new pictures have arrived
• See pictures from other popular photo sharing web sites

Simple to use touch screen
Kodak's Quick Touch Border includes an illuminated panel of yellow lights along the border of the frame that tells you exactly where to touch -- simply press along the bottom and right hand side of the border of the frame to navigate menus. The unique scrolling feature allows you to slide your finger across the bottom of the Quick Touch Border to easily scroll through your pictures. The Quick Touch Border also helps keeps your viewing screen free from fingerprints and smudges and you can use is to create, edit and view slideshows -- at the touch of your fingertips.

Personalized web media
Where do you go for up-to-date news, weather, and pictures of your brother’s latest vacation? Try your wireless digital frame, complete with web access. A wireless internet connection enables streaming photos and more from your favorite web sites. It's like your own personal Internet channel right on the frame.

• Use your wireless digital frame to show off your favorite photos from leading online photo sharing web sites such as KODAK Gallery and FLICKR -- you can view public or private photos from your collection or from friends and family
• View news, weather, and sports updates to stay informed throughout the day, plus humor, horoscope, sports, traffic, and more -- powered by FRAMECHANNEL
• Stream your favorite photos directly to your frame from the Internet with RSS technology
• Just like the Internet, the content you experience on your digital frame can change and grow with your interests

Set the mood with music
Listen to your favorite MP3s with the W1020s built-in speakers. You can also plug your MP3 player right into your frame using the audio-in feature. You can also create personalized slideshows with your favorite songs and customized transitions.

Store more pictures
Store up to 4,000 of your favorite pictures directly on your frame's 512 MB of internal memory. Also use the 2 memory card slots for enjoying even more of your digital pictures -- providing virtually unlimited memory.

Accessorize your pictures
Complement your home décor with 6 unique looks using the included faceplate and decorative mattes. New sleek designs can make any room more exciting. And you can display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall -- vertically or horizontally. With it's discreet cord design -- frame cords are barely visible. Additional faceplates with mattes to suit your style are sold separately.

Easily access and transfer pictures
KODAK EASYSHARE Software, Digital Frame Edition is the key to making your wireless digital frame come alive. It helps you create multimedia slideshows and to access pictures from your computer, as well as from leading photo sharing web sites such as KODAK Gallery and FLICKR. Easy to select the information you want to see on your frame -- streaming news, weather, sports, photos, and more

Smart, intuitive media -- done your way
Plug and play operation makes viewing your pictures a snap -- just insert your memory card or USB flash drive with your digital pictures and enjoy.

Product Description

Wireless access to your pictures is now at your fingertips : Access the latest news, weather, sports, and more : Automatically send and receive pictures from KODAK Gallery members right on your frame with the Picture Mail feature : Universal Plug and Play : 10.2 (25.9 cm) diagonal display : 8.7 x 5.2 (22.1x13.2cm) display area : 800x480 display resolution, aSi TFT active matrix : 350 NITs brightness : JPEG, EXIF Image file formats : MPEG 1 and 4, AVI, MOV Video formats : MP3 Audio formats : Memory cards supported - Secure Digital (SD), Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC), Multimedia Card (MMC), MEMORY STICK (MS), XD-Picture Card (xD), COMPACTFLASH (CF), and USB flash drives : Dimensions - 11.7 x 8.2 x 1.3 (29.8x20.8x3.4cm) : Weight - 31.5 ounces (893 grams)

Customer Reviews

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109 of 123 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy software & poor documentation, December 5, 2008

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S. Greene (Palo Alto, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I wanted to like this product - I really did. It's a pretty case, the screen looks great, and the feature set is impressive.

But the software and documentation problems are maddening. There is PC software that you install to control the frame and load photos, slideshows, etc. This software is frustratingly buggy and never worked for me. It gave several error messages on installation; after finally installing fully, it couldn't find the frame on the network. The screen displays an error message referring you to the manual, the manual refers you to a web FAQ, and the web site points you back to the manual - kind of an amusing tail-chasing exercise. After uninstalling and reinstalling, temporarily disabling my firewall, etc., I tried their live chat support, but the technician's script evidently extended only to the most basic things that I had already tried; and when I suggested that there might be a software problem he got argumentative. There doesn't appear to be any kind of "advanced" tab in the software for example to manually enter an IP address and troubleshoot problems like this, so in some ways I sympathize, all the tech can do is advise you to reinstall the software and then he may not have anything left up his sleeve.

The frame did connect to the Internet and display my Kodak Gallery albums. So if that's all you want it for then I'd recommend it. But if you intend to use any of the advanced features, in particular controlling it wirelessly from a PC, it's a roll of the dice whether it will work for you. The one thing I would say from my experience with it is, if the software on the PC doesn't come up 100% clean and connect to the frame perfectly on your very first try, put the thing back in the box right away and give up, it's not worth hours of futzing with.

66 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a difference a year makes., November 12, 2008

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John Brayton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W1020 10-Inch Wireless Digital Frame (Electronics)

I bought the Kodak EX 811 a year ago for my parents which was a wireless 8" digital frame. Unfortantely, many of the features were not fully implemented, and overall, the frame was a disappointment. Given that Kodak has had a year to get it right, I purchased the W1020 for myself to check it out. Wow. Kodak got this one right. I have only had a chance so far to configure the wireless feature and connect it to my online gallery, so there are many other features that I have yet to try. But my first impressions are very good from the nicely implemented on screen interface with a touch panel to features that were previously not implemented like power on/off which actually starts displaying photos from any source including the online gallery. I noticed that other features that were missing in the previous version are now available like a random display option so you do not always see the photos in the same order.

I am now hoping that I can now upgrade my parent's EX 811 to the latest firmware to resolve some of the issues that the older frame had. I may write another review after I have had to chance to explore all the features of this frame, but it is looking like this frame is a real winner.

31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars W1020--good hardware, terrible software, December 7, 2008

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J. Stepp (DUNWOODY, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W1020 10-Inch Wireless Digital Frame (Electronics)

The promise of the Kodak W1020: manage your photos wirelessly from your computer, receive photos from others directly to your wireless frame, watch slide shows and videos from flickr and Kodak's site.

The reality: many hours of fighting with the software and pulling my hair out isn't worth it.

As others have said, the software (Kodak EasyShare Digital Display Software) is indeed pretty wonky and not intuitive. It often took 30 seconds or more to wait for it to load and had to be killed via Task Manager several times.

Trying to navigate to your photos within the software is maddening. It is supposed to be drag and drop once you find the photos you want. The folder tree is the same as you would see in My Computer, but when you click on a directory that has many photos, the program does not show the files or allow you to select _any_ until it has generated a thumbnail of every last one, which may take several minutes.

Slightly troubling is that there is no clear way to disable automatic searching of certain default folders (My Music, My Pictures, My Videos). If you go to Tools--Settings, "Folder" tab, you can "select folders to scan for pictures..." etc. and in the right hand column are 6 paths pointing to the My Music, My Pictures and My videos for "All Users" and the current user. You can highlight them but the "remove" button remains greyed out. We all know that there are photos on our computers not ready to be accidentally shared with the rest of the world.

Subjectively, it seems like my hard drive is spinning and grinding constantly after installing the software. After installing it, my boot time has increased by at least 30 seconds (counting from when the desktop background appears). There is no new icon in the lower right hand corner or other obvious sign of a background program, but running Task Manager and looking the Processes shows that the Kodak program is using 30,000K of memory (at startup when I haven't launched any programs at all). There is no new item in the startup folder and no option I could find in the Kodak software to _not_ have it run at startup.

The touchscreen is OK, but not great. Entering a password takes a long time as you have to scroll character by character. The frame can be unresponsive while photos are "loading" in the thumbnail mode & immediately after you click "select all", leaving you uncertain if you've hit the button or not. Also, if you tap a button that doesn't have any "files" or sub menus in it, there is no beep or other sign that you can't enter into it. So you tap it again. And again.

The Good:

The image quality is pretty good.

The Kodak Gallery (online) works pretty well once you get it set up. The multi-step process is not spelled out though:

1) Create an account online (if you don't already have one)

2) login in to the the Kodak Gallery from within the Kodak Easyshare Digital display software

3) login in to the Kodak Gallery from within the frame (Region, email, password)

Anyone who wants to send you many photos can set up an account and email them to you. I created a second account and emailed photos to the first one associated with the frame. You can set the frame to have a popup showing that "Name" is sharing photos from you, and to receive them. As they are shown on the frame, you can choose to save the received photos to the frame's internal memory (save all or one at a time). If your wireless connection is always on, then the frame seems to be able to get the photos from the web every time the frame is powered on so you can manage the slideshow completely via the web. THIS is the functionality I wanted, to be able to send pics to my parents or whoever and have them just show up on the frame. Magic.

Flickr works. Sort of. You must allow the frame to access your flickr account and you can choose to view photos from individual sets, or all photos from your photostream. You have to "select all" thumbnails in the frame menu or the default is to show only the same 10-15 photos. When being set up, the software tells you that ALL photos will be accessable, including those set as PRIVATE.

You can set up to randomly go thru other people's images from flickr. It can be interesting, but I imagine the possibility of questionable content (flickr users generally do self-filter nudity, etc. but you never know).

Deleting stuff is not spelled out anywhere:

Deleting from the frame-in the Easyshare digital display software, choose the bottom option in the tree "My Devices". Delete the sample pictures or others pics that you do not want. (this does not remove the sample pictures brought in via the website). Albums on the Kodak website must be deleted via the website (the albums will be removed from the frame after you power down and restart frame).

I didn't use Framechannel except for the built in buttons for weather, news etc. It apppears to be supported by the occasional advertisement along with the content they provide.

I didn't use a direct connection to computer via USB cable or plug in USB or SD cards, so can't comment on how well they work. I got the frame because I wanted a _wireless_ setup.

I will be returning this item. I really wish the software was better, the frame itself is pretty and had a lot of promise. Perhaps the next generation will be ready for next years' holiday season.