i-mate Momento 100 10.2-Inch Wireless Digital Picture Frame

by iMate

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 1.5 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000J6E2WW
• Item model number: MOM102-CF-WM
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 1, 2006

Product Description

Style: 10 Inch

Manufacturer Description

Share the moment with the Momento 100 wireless digital picture frame. Easy to set up and use, Momento allows you to display your pictures from your computer running Windows Vista, Windows XP with WMP 11, memory cards, USB drives, on device storage and through Momento Live service. With Momento live, friends and family can send pictures direct to your Momento from anywhere in the world -- share the moment as it happens. A Momento Live service trial subscription is included with the purchase of a Momento wireless digital picture frame.

Memory card compatibility and wireless support make it simple to share and update photos

From your computer
Stream pictures to your Momento from your PC running Windows Vista or Windows XP. Send pictures from any computer to any Momento anywhere from momentolive.com. Note: wireless connection required.

From your phone
Send from your phone by email and MMS* from momentolive.com.
_{*MMS not available in all countries. Check momentolive.com for availability in your area.}

From your camera
Send from your wireless enabled camera.*
_{*May require an email-capable wireless camera or additional steps on your computer.}

Additional Features

• Built in storage for favorite pictures
• Built in clock & calendar display mode
• Landscape or portrait
• Customizable slideshow
• Customizable mattes and frames
• RF Remote included
• Support for Windows SideShow

Momento Live capable

With Momento Live, friends and family can send pictures direct to your Momento from anywhere in the world. A Momento Live service trial subscription is included with the purchase of a Momento Wireless Digital Picture Frame.

• Buy a Momento
• Sign up for Momento Live service
• Invite friends and family to send pictures
• View Live pictures instantly on your Momento -- share the moment as it happens!

More about Momento digital photo frames

Momento 70 and Momento 100 digital photo frames combine industry-leading hardware, connectivity, and software components with the secure online Momento Live! ecosystem to allow for the display and management of digital content within a home, office or for corporate use. Momento, a Certified for Windows Vista product, was designed in collaboration with Microsoft to ensure the highest level of compatibility with the digital imaging software functionality and enhanced digital media features of the soon-to-be-released Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. Momento digital photo frames was a featured product during the Microsoft keynote address at this year’s Digital Life conference in New York City on October 12, 2006.

Product Description

Momento is an easy to use digital photo frame combining industry-leading hardware, connectivity, and software components with a secure ecosystem to allow for the display, sharing and management of digital content within a home or office environment. Momento allows users to display and share images through the PC, media card and web services. The product is designed to be customizable to appeal to users personal tastes and preferences and to provide a delivery medium that fits the personal needs and lifestyle of the user. The frame can be positioned on a wireless network anywhere around the house. Users will have the option of setting up their favorite slide shows or view a single image that can be displayed either simultaneously on each picture frame or individually to complement the mood for that particular location.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor/no customer service / response, May 22, 2007

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Nathan Lasche (Mexico City, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: i-mate Momento 70 7-Inch Wireless Digital Picture Frame (Clear) (Electronics)

The product itself works well. However, we wanted to sign up for the online service in which we could send photos to the frame via email. When we went to the website to do this, the site told us that our frame had already been registered by someone (even though it was brand-new from Amazon). Over the past month we have been repeatedly trying to contact the customer service reps over email and phone and have never gotten through to anyone, nor received a response from anyone. Seems like a good product, but they really seem to have no idea how to run a business or how to respond to customers.

If anyone from Momento actually reads this posting please contact me so that we can resolve this issue. Thanks.

45 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars decent features, horrible support, October 26, 2007

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Mike G (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: i-mate Momento 100 10.2-Inch Wireless Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

I usually do not write reviews -- this turned out to be very frustrating and time consuming. The reason I gave it one star so that other users will hopefully see this post and it will save them time. I will not tell you all the pluses of this thing, you can read other reviews. Feature-wise it is probably one of the most compelling products at this time.

I am an IT Professional and have over 7 years of experience configuring wireless networks -- it took me over 4 hours over a course of a few days to get Momento to connect to my network. I was very close to sending it back.

I have Dlink DIR-655 router with two laptops connected to it wirelessly -- no issues. Momento refused to see my SSID, while seeing my neighbors' networks.

After hours of tinkering, completely useless email response from i-Mate support, I found the configuration that works:

Dlink configuration:
+ Install latest firmware (1.10 as of 2007/10/26); backup settings before installing this one -- it resets everything to default
+ Turn off "Wireless Protected Setup" - that allowed Momento to see my network ssid, but it wasn't enough
+ Change WPA Mode to "WPA Only"
+ Change Cipher Type from AES to TKIP - that allowed Momento to connect.

I documented the changes I had to make in order to make it connect. Links are not allowed in reviews so search for: "i-mate momento and dlink dir-655 co-existence" in google. should take you to my blog post

Hope this will help a few people save time and frustration

P.S. I also expect phone support when spending $300 on a gadget -- not with i-mate...

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great concept but poor software/networking options, June 13, 2007

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Nima S. Panahi (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: i-mate Momento 100 10.2-Inch Wireless Digital Picture Frame (Electronics)

Other have written about all the positives, but I thought I would inform would-be-buyers about the big reasons they might not want to buy it. The product has great capability but really lacks in software and networking. Sure it can do wireless networking... if you network is in the stone age! Wi-Fi requires that new products like this support things like WPA2 and AES encryption at least. This thing will NOT work with your network if you have WPA2 and/or AES enable. I don't mean that you require WPA2 and/or AES for something to connect, no... even if you enable mixed mode where your access point allows WPA/WPA2 and/or TKIP/AES it will refuse to connect. You have to switch ALL of your network to WPA with TKIP to be able to use this device! What a rip off! And don't hold your breath for a firmware update. Either this thing can't do firmware update or the tech support for imate just fancies not replying me emails about them fixing their device to support the standard networking protocals REQUIRED by the Wi-Fi community for new devices like this. Sure they answer other questions, but somehow don't answer any emails about the networking problem or any firmware update.
Second, the sideshow capabilies are EXTREMELY limited. You can use some sideshow gadgets with it but all of them won't really work well or in a very limited way.

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