Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital Frame

by Kodak

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.8 x 3.8 inches ; 3.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016NJ7EK
• Item model number: W820
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 10, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The new Kodak EasyShare W820 8-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 W820 also features interchangeable faceplates and includes fun features like the ability to play MP3s and create on-frame multimedia shows modes.

Kodak W820 Highlights

Viewing excellence
View your pictures on the 8-inch 16:9 wide screen featuring KODAK Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail. The W820 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 W820s 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 pictures
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 Galleryâ?"plus, your frame will let you know when new pictures have arrived

Use your wireless digital frame to show off your favorite photos from leading online photo sharing web sites such as KODAK Gallery and FLICKRâ?"you can view public or private photos from your collection or from friends and family

See pictures from other popular photo sharing web sites

Personalized web media
Itâ?TMs like your own personal Internet channel right on the frame. A wireless internet connection enables streaming photos and more from your favorite web sites.

View news, weather, and sports updates to stay informed throughout the day, plus humor, horoscope, sports, traffic, and moreâ?"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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good but wanted more, December 19, 2008

By 

J. KINSELLA (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital Frame (Electronics)

I bought the product as a gift for my parents. My hope was to buy a wireless digital picture frame that could download the latest family pictures to my parent's living room. In short: if this is what you want it to do, you're buying the wrong frame.

The positives on this frame include: 1) bright, crisp display, 2) attractive packaging, 3) reasonable price to value (assuming wireless is a pre-requisite), and 4) good picture/video/music format support (you'll likely need to convert videos to MPEG though).

But where it fell short was in my expectations. I didn't want to upload a static set of pictures to the frame's flash card - I wanted to have it download them daily from the web.

So here are the shortcomings:

1) Spotty wireless support - I couldn't ever get it to recognize my WPA-enabled wireless network. I could remove security or access it via WEP , but never could connect with WPA security on. Documentation here is non-existent.

2) Poor computer software - The approach for putting pictures on the frame is to install software on your computer, and have your frame connect to your computer to download pictures. I couldn't do this, likely because my computer has a firewall. Unfortunately the user documentation doesn't provide any detail for me to troubleshoot and resolve.

3) Limited web support - I tried to download pictures from Flickr, but it just hung the frame. I also tried downloading from Kodak Gallery, which actually did work, but was not really usable due to performance. The frame can easily download a few pictures from Kodak, but if you had 20+ pictures, it just sits there and hangs while it downloads each and every picture (not sure why they it can't download pictures in the background).

4) Web vs. flash - You can set it up to either show pictures from the flash card, or show pictures from the web (with the restrictions in #3) - but not both. I guess I had hoped for an option to download pictures in the background from the web.

So in short, it's actually a nice frame - but as with most Kodak products, suffers from poor software (both for the computer and frame).

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great Idea, Horrible Implementation, September 19, 2009

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Scot Campbell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital Frame (Electronics)

Just like almost everyone who bought this frame, I wanted it to stream from my Flickr account into my parents home.

The usability of this frame is terrible. It drops wireless connection all the time, it freezes, and the UI is awful. The Kodak software you have to use to manage the frame is also terrible. Nothing is user friendly, nothing is intuitive. Even with the latest firmware and software updates. The slide UI is ridiculous and seldom works as expected.

The lack of control over what streams from your Flickr account is also non-existent. I doubt my parents want to see all my contacts photos too.

I realized after spending two frustrating days with this frame, that handing it over to my parents would be down right evil. If I was frustrated beyond belief with it, they would be completely lost.

Run away from this frame if you are buying it for its wireless capabilities, you will lose many frustrating hours of your life to it, that you can never get back. Seriously, I had high hopes for this frame, and did my best to not let it beat me. I am now returning TWO of them. Why are you still reading? You should be running.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great concept but WROUGHT with problems..., January 18, 2009

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Rick V "Bargain hunter by day, shopaholic at ... (IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kodak Easyshare W820 8-Inch Wireless Digital Frame (Electronics)

I will keep this review short and to the point as I am full of anger towards Kodak for selling this ill-executed garbage of a product.

Background
I wanted to buy wifey a digital frame for her b'day. One that would easily be updated (wireless). I addition I wanted to buy my parents one so that they could see pictures that we uploaded to the web. Great thought. So we found the Kodak. They claim that they can connect wirelessly to Framechannel and other services and function through a homes wireless network.

We received the frames
We got 2 per the above. Upon installing the first frame it kept on getting stuck in the boot frame. I could not get past it. So I tried 20 minutes of restarting and resetting. To no avail.
Then I tried the second frame and that one booted through and started. I set it up and it worked... for about a day.

Client service
So I got their South American client service on the line. They had NO CLUE about how these frames function. They had no clue how to speak English. Sorry, but the truth. Eventually I asked for a manager to talk to me as I wanted to get an RMA and they kept on saying that I needed to call the company I bought it from (I bought it directly from Kodak store, duh).
Anyways, no luck there and finally someone from the Kodak store said they'd give me a refund if I would send it directly to them.

The second one: after a day or so it would get stuck in the hourglass and when rebooting it would sometimes work and sometimes, for days, it would not work. I thought it was my internet (nothing else has a problem with it) so I tried using and SD card. Same symptom: after about 2 hrs it would freeze, reboot, get stuck and not work for days. No reboot would help.

So we called client service. No speako (I am a non-native English speaker myself and do not say this lightly, but you CANNOT expect clients to remain docile if someone keeps on speaking gibberish on the phone). Finally I apologized myself and called the store again. Since it was now past 30 days I could get no refund. I called the helpless desk in Brazil again and another lost soul tried telling me to reset my router, press the select button (which would not respond to touch) and so on. Finally they said I should send it in at my expense. Are you ^*#%$*&#& kidding me?

Kodak ships junk and I need to pay for it to be fixed???

Going forward
I turned the frame into a little project whereby I am trying to hack the software. 230$ junk. I bought a nice Samsung and both worked SO MUCH BETTER.

Kodak is creating sub-par junk from China and has poor quality control and client service. I recommend looking at online reviews and try the Samsungs instead. Sooo much better.