Kodak Pulse’s General Aim: Being Extremely Easy To Use
The Kodak Pulse Digital Frameis the first digital photograph body we have seen to have a touchscreen. Combine this with built-in WiFi, and it goes some way to justifying the fairly high price, which is a lot considering the Pulse's relatively small screen size of just 7 inch. Unusually for a screen this small, the touch capabilities are achieved via infrared sensors around the edges of the display, rather than a resistive or capacitive screen. Organising the Pulse was incredibly easy. Aside from the frame, there's just a mains adaptor in the box. When you plug it in, onscreen instructions lead you through connecting to your wireless network.
Once this is done, a PIN is shown on screen, and you have to head to Kodak's website to complete the setup process. Here, you join a free account and enter the PIN to pair the body with the account. The idea is that you can then upload photos to the frame from your computer (using Facebook or Kodak's own Gallery) via the website. You may also select an electronic mail tackle for the kodak pulse digital photo frame itself, so you (or friends and family) can email new photos to the frame using any email client. It's a novel approach, and means new photos could arrive on the frame at any time, making for a nice surprise.
What's particularly good about the web interface is that it automatically resizes images to match the frame's resolution. This avoids sending enormous quantities of information unnecessarily, and maximises the variety of photos that can be stored in the Pulse's 512MB of memory. However, we hope that Kodak updates the Java application so that images in sub-folders are automatically selected when you click the Select all button. Currently, sub-folders have to be added manually.
Interestingly, Kodak has decided to put the frame's timer settings exclusively online. You can set when the frame turns on and off, but you can't set different times for different days. It's certainly easy to make changes using your mouse, but we can't fathom why they're not available through the Pulse's on-screen menus. Plus, it can take up to 15 minutes for changes made on the website to be applied to the frame, which can be inconvenient.As with many digital photo frames we see, the Pulse would not offer slideshow intervals between images over 30 seconds. If you wish to show a photograph for longer than this, you need to pause the slide show. For more information, please visit where to buy kodak pulse digital frame .