Sunday, January 4, 2009

Kodak EasyShare M1020 10-Inch Digital Frame


Kodak EasyShare M1020 10-Inch Digital Frame
From Kodak

Price: $159.70
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
Ships from and sold by Ace Photo Digital

35 new or used available from $149.98
Average customer review:

Product Description

Indulge your senses with pictures, videos and music. Just insert a memory card or USB flash drive into the Kodak EasyShare M1020 Digital Picture Frame and enjoy viewing your pictures right away. Your frame comes with decorative mattes that allow you to personalize the look of the frame, and complement your home decor.

Kodak EasyShare Software makes it easy to access all of your pictures and transfer them from your computer to your frame. Kodak's Quick Touch Border keeps fingerprints off of your viewing screen so your images stay beautiful. The touch panel features yellow lights that illuminate to tell you exactly where to touch.

Create, edit and view slideshows at the touch of your fingertips. The convenient drag-and-drop feature is perfect for transferring pictures for slideshows. View your pictures on the 10" (25.4 cm) 16:9 wide screen featuring Kodak Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail. Store up to 300 pictures directly on your frame's 128 MB of internal memory and use the two available SD card slots to view and enjoy even more of your pictures.

Set the mood with your music, listen to your favorite MP3s with built-in speakers Selectable viewing hours featuring automatic on/off settings Easily browse and edit your albums Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall, vertically or horizontally Add style to any decor with optional accessory faceplates Discreet cord design is barely visible

Product Details

* Brand: Kodak
* Model: M1020
* Released on: 2008-04-14
* Original language: English
* Dimensions: 3.60" h x 9.80" w x 13.70" l, 5.50 pounds
* Native resolution: 10.2
* Display size: 10.2

Features

* 10-inch high quality LCD screen
* Play video and listen to MP3s
* 128 MB internal memory; plus more memory with additional SD Card slot
* Personalize with interchangeable faceplates
* Mount on the wall of display on a table

Editorial Reviews

From the Manufacturer
The sleek and stylish Kodak EasyShare M1020 10-Inch Digital Frame hosts a suite of features including the innovative Quick Touch Border, as well as accessories for enhancing your home.

With the M1020 control of the frame has never been easier with Quick Touch Border that allows for simple operation with a touch or slide of your finger, while leaving the screen fingerprint and smudge-free.

Transferring pictures from your PC to your M1020 is quick and easy. In addition to organizing and editing your pictures, this software makes it simple to move your favorite pictures and slide shows from a computer directly onto the frame.

The Kodak EasyShare M1020 displays images in HD format (16:9 aspect ratio). The screens are color tuned to Kodak's standards and use Kodak Color Science for vibrant colors and pleasing skin tones-displaying pictures in brilliant color and crisp detail.

To customize the frame to match your home's decor, two decorative mattes are included, in Cranberry Red and Silver colors. In addition, optional Kodak Digital Frame Faceplates are available in Mahogany with a gold matte, Silver with a blue matte, Black Shadowbox with a champagne matte, and Espresso Shadowbox with a black matte. Easy to change, the faceplates snap onto the frame and update the look to suit your own personal style.

Customer Reviews

Clunky interface, shuffle feature not working, more...
So using amazons ratings as a good starting point for purchasing this frame i picked it up. I soon realized once open that the internal 128MB was worthless. I purchased (2) 4GB USB sticks to make compatibility as easy as possible for this was a gift for my 65 year old mother.

I found the TOUCH interface clunky. I dread having to explain how this functions to my Mother after she receives it on the holiday. The interface is particularly unuser friendly wanting to default to the limited 128MB internal memory each time its started instead of defaulting to the USB card i have left inserted.

For those of you who like TOUCH interfaces, this is no IPHONE or IPOD. The SHUFFLE feature does not work - this randomization of photos is most likely the #1 feature you could want on a device like this.

Kodaks website - the software updates do not have release dates which makes if much more difficult to know if you are going to benefit from a particular download, especially for the non tech type persons out there.

When wondering how to change the duration for each photo that was displayed for more then 5 seconds (default) the printed manual referred me to the "extended manual" located on kodaks website. The 1/4" non-extended kodak manual became worthless pretty fast though in typical Kodak fashion it was in seven languages.

It's going to take some time to see how my retirement age parents are able to enjoy it. Another huge Kodak marketing misrepresentation. On the cover and the back they show two different people holding the frame as if it is cordless. With the impression that it can be easily passed around from person to person in a room.

With the 6' cord tethering you to the frame this will be much more difficult then imagined while purchasing. No option for the frame to even run on a battery source. I've waited a few years for the prices to come down on these digital frames.

It seems the software is still at 1.0 though, with the SHUFFLE feature the one thing that disappoints me the most. Every time the frame is started you have to start in order and you do get tired of having to see the same photos each time the frame is started.

The color, brightness and contrast are very nice and the mat looks real enough and is apparently swappable. Also the Kodak chat feature for tech support was not open to answer my questions even though the site advertises 24/7 7 day a week chat support.

Its an amazing technology that needs a few tweaks yet. Buyer beware. I'm having to give it 2 stars counter 3.5 it's currently averaging, though it could be 4 quickly with better software and more accurate marketing by Kodak.

Better than the rest
Super easy to use and the picture quality far exceeds the other 10" I own and those I compared it to. ++++

Wonderful product
I can't say much that others haven't said, so I'll just say we're really happy with our Kodak EasyShare 10-inch Digital Frame. It was simple to set up. We just loaded pictures onto a flash drive and plugged that into the frame. Beautiful clear pictures, smart-looking frame. We're definitely pleased!

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