| The eStarling Wireless Picture Frame revolutionizes photo sharing. The eStarling frame offers an elegant way to view your photos, and it is a Wi-Fi enabled device that easily receives photos from cell phones, email and RSS photo feeds. This product works in coordination with Seeframe Live, a website for sharing, storing and organizing your photos. Users can subscribe to photos broadcasted from public RSS feeds organized on Seeframe, and also publish their own photos. The eStarling can also upload photos directly via USB connection, CF cards and SD/MS/MMC/XD cards. About 500 photos can be stored on the 128 MB of on-board memory, and many more photos can be stored on Seeframe Live. On the latest edition of this screen, short text messages can be sent from cell phones, emails and the Seeframe Live website. |
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 Great Frame and now they've fixed the website! |
| Review Date: January 3, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Peter Mills, Philadelphia, PA |
This is just the frame I've been looking for. It has wireless connectivity, can be programmed to turn on and off, and works after a 5 minute setup right out of the box. I saw the reviews here after Christmas and would suggest that those people come back and revisit them. Giving this product 1 star over a temporary frustration of the device that seems to be fixed now is just unfair.
Setup was very simple. I just plugged the frame into my computer, setup my wireless, went to the seeframe website and registered my frame to an account and a message popped up on the frame saying everything was setup. I setup an RSS feed and about 2 minutes later my pictures from Picasa started to appear on the frame. I also tested the email to frame capability by taking a picture with my camera phone. I emailed the picture from my phone to the frames email address and a minute later that picture entered the rotation on the frame.
The screen is pretty beautiful. It has a 800x600 8" LCD. A lot of the other frames use a streched 16:9 LCD or have lower resolutions like 600x480 or lower. Another great feature that is simple but not many digital frames have is the ability to turn the frame on and off at specified times. One reason that I could think to stop using a digital frame is having to turn it off at night and remembering to turn it on in the morning.
The real key to this frames success is making it so simple that once it is setup it is as easy to use as any other standard picture frame on the mantel. It constantly has new pictures automatically refreshed as they are loaded onto Picasa with my Eye-Fi Card(another great complimentary product). It also turns on and off by itself so it doesn't light up the dark house all night with a constant slideshow. Basically, I don't have to pay any attention to it EVER and I always have new pictures to look at. This frame enables digital pictures to finally be shown easier than film!
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Terrific and very fun product!
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| Review Date: January 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Lynda Maybruck, Saratoga, CA United States |
| We bought the frame for grandparents. It has been awesome for them! No glitches at all. We set it up with a standard Linksys WiFi system and it was off and running. A distant daughter gave birth and grandparents were receiving pictures during delivery. Very cool! It is also great to be able to go in and remove pics they no longer want on the frame. Thank you estarling. |
Let's give eStarling a chance to fix this
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| Review Date: December 27, 2007 |
| Reviewer: T. Kaplan, Central Florida |
I purchased an eStarling WiFi Digital Photo Frame as a surprise for my husband for Christmas, after reading reviews for over a year. I set it up several days before Christmas so it would work "right out of the box" for him, and it was a breeze. I couldn't be happier with it. Then Christmas Day arrived and the email services tanked. Had I not been successfully emailing photos to our frame for days, I, too, would be frustrated and angry, but it's pretty clear what has happened. All the Christmas sales overloaded their server.
PLEASE let's give eStarling a chance to fix whatever happened. It really is cool when it works, so don't give up on it yet. |
Very good frame for your Mom
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| Review Date: November 10, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Randal, Hoboken, NJ United States |
I bought this for my Mom last Christmas, and a Phillips frame for my wife's work, and even though the Phillips may be a tad brighter than the EStarling, I think I prefer the EStarling for its simplicity.
I just email my photos to my Mom's frame, and they just show up (with no subscription fee at all). It was very easy to set up twice (once on my WiFi network to test and again on hers) She has had absolutely no problem keeping it connected to her network, and its ease of use makes the interface on the Phillips model look positively Byzantine.
I was just checking to see if there is a new model to give my Father in law for Christmas, and even though it still is the same model as last year I will probably still get one for him. |
Easily receives pictures from anywhere in the world
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| Review Date: November 30, 2008 |
| Reviewer: R. Cappo, |
I have setup two of these last Christmas and will setup another one this Christmas. I have had no problems with this picture frame receiving e-mails from friends and family. I've even sent a few pictures from the other side of the world to my Mom's picture frame. She doesn't have to do anything, the pictures just appear. And she is able to add attachments on the e-mail she sends to my picture frame.
I would like to see them allow multiple on/off cycles each day through the software. I go to work during the day, but would like it on from 6-8am and 7-11pm. I think they have fixed the problem with needing a (Windows) computer to pick the access point to use. And setting it up to Flickr worked, but it wasn't as easy as the e-mail method. And, I think they should offer a large 14"-17" (maybe even bigger) frame. I'm not sure if there is a way to make the pictures just switch fast without the transition animation, but I would prefer that.
But I like this picture frame and it does a good job. |
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