Product Description

PRODUCT FEATURES:10 in. (25.4 cm) high-quality displayWi-Fi enabledKodak's Quick Touch BorderAccess the latest news, weather, sports, and moreAutomatically send and receive pictures from Kodak Gallery members right on your frame with the Picture Mail feature - simply touch along the bottom and right hand side of the border of the frame to navigate menus.View news, weather, and sports updates to stay informed throughout the day, plus humor, horoscope, sports, traffic, and more - powered by Framechannel.

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Product Details

• Size: 10-Inch
• Brand: Kodak
• Model: W1020
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.50" h x 9.75" w x 13.50" l, 4.88 pounds
• CPU: AMD Athlon 1 GHz
• Memory: 128000MB DRAM
• Hard Disk: 1GB
• Processors: 1
• Native resolution: 10
• Display size: 10

Features

• 10-inch high quality LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio; KODAK Color Science gives your pictures crisp details and vibrant colors
• Wireless access to pictures on your home computer and leading photo sharing sites featuring Kodak Gallery and Flickr with built-in Wi-Fi capability
• Play your videos or listen to your favorite MP3’s with the frame’s built-in speakers.
• Store up to 4000 of your favorite pictures directly on your frame’s 512 MB of internal memory
• 2 SD card slots are available to allow you to have extra memory to view more pictures

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.

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Customer Reviews

Buggy software & poor documentation
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.

What a difference a year makes.
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.

Save yourself grief, don't get the wireless version
Update, 10-2-09: After nine months I have no reason to alter my original review. The screen is beautiful, I painted the original frame to my taste, and there have been many compliments on it. However, I have still not been able to use the wireless. It's not a huge problem since a cheap SD card can hold a ton of .jpegs. As I originally said, save yourself the money and get the non-wireless version.


These reviews cover multiple Kodak frames for some reason. This review is specific to the Kodak EasyShare W1020 10-Inch Wireless Digital Frame.

After four days of fumbling with the Kodak EasyShare W1020, I've come to the conclusion that the wireless function is virtually worthless. I used to teach computer science at the college level. My son, who was with us for the holidays has a Ph.D. is computer science and works in the research division of a huge software manufacturer. Neither of us could get the wireless system to work reliably. So let's go over the positives and negatives:

The picture is nice and big but since it has the same pixel count as the 8-inch frame, the 8- inch frame will be sharper. Close viewing reveals some softness, but with a frame this large, you should stand back some and then it looks fine.

The touch screen is easier to use than a remote control, but it takes a bit of getting used to. On the whole, a plus.

Really, that's all I have to say that's positive about this frame. Here is a list of problems I've had:

The wireless finds all networks in my neighborhood and rates them by percentage according to strength. But entering the WPA code is difficult because you don't actually touch the screen keyboard, but tiny LED's that appear below it. If you have a complex code (and you should) count on at least 10 minutes for this process, if not longer.

Now here's where it gets interesting. Using the Kodak Gallery, the frame only stays on line for two or three hours before displaying a message that it can't find any wireless channels. I have two wireless networks in my house with strong signals and it fails on both of them. The frame then locks up and has to be unplugged to "reboot" it.

So I then tried the Frame Channel which comes free with the frame. It actually stays on-line longer, but it, too, is flawed. Occasionally it simply stops working and displays a blank gray screen. As I write this only one picture is being displayed. It has been on the screen for hours in spite of being set up to change every five minutes. In other words it's "stuck."

The frame downloaded new firmware when I got it up and running so I can't imagine what it was like before. In short, I have not been able to get the wireless version to function correctly. Save yourself $60 and get the non-wireless version.

Other nits to pick:

The maximum time you can set a picture to stay on the screen is one hour. I like to have a single new picture appear every day. Why not allow 24 hours?

I bought the frame because it was advertised as having interchangeable faceplates, but the only replacement one available is the black one that comes with it. Why would you want to buy the one that came with it? The Kodak home site advertises other faceplates, but doesn't sell them. It points you to several vendors none of whom carry new faceplates for the W1020. But the black one that comes on the frame is easy to find. Makes no sense.

You can set the frame up for RSS feeds and they look very good, but you have about an equal chance of staring at a Dr. Pepper commercial as you do a news story. So the RSS function seems to be a way to get advertising into your house. Skip it.

As others have said the software is slow (really, really slow) even though I downloaded the new version. It's non-intuitve and virtually worthless, as is the manual.

To sum up: Get the M1020 non-wireless frame instead. Stick a big memory card in it and you're good to go. You'll have a "five star" frame instead of the two star one I have. If a computer scientist with an Ivy League Ph.D. can't make it work, I despair for us mere mortals.

I will continue to work with the wireless and update this review if I find any useful workarounds for the wireless.