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Mother’s Day is Sunday, and I know you are all looking to find that perfect Mother’s Day gift.  On the wishlist of many moms is a digital photo frame.  Kodak provided me with a digital frame to review, so you can know what you’re buying.

The Kodak EasyShare P720 is a 7 inch digital photo frame.  It’s easy to use…just plug in a memory card and go!  Or, if you’d like to customize your slide show a bit more, use the EasyShare software to drag and drop photos to a memory card, which you then insert into the frame for playing

The transitions between slides are very smooth, and there are a couple of different options.  My personal favorite is when the picture pans in slightly, and then fades out for the next photo.

Make sure your photos have a clear resolution, because if they’re even slightly blurry, you’ll notice it on the frame!  But for nice clear photos, the display is great!

To access the settings on the digital frame, the Kodak EasyShare P720 has a convenient touch frame.  You don’t need to touch the screen at all, which saves the display area from nasty fingerprints!

Included in the digital frame package are a couple of matte screens, you you have several different options for displaying your photos.

The Low-Down on the Kodak EasyShare P720

The Pros:

• Easy to get set up.  I didn’t even read the directions! 
• Sharp looking
• Several different options for customizing the display
• Nice picture for sharp photos
• Can add videos & music, when using the desktop software
• Allows for different memory storage devices…USB drives, memory cards, etc.

The Cons:

• Watch out for blurry photos!  They’ll look blurrier on the frame (but I think this is true of all digital photo frames).
• No Mac Support

My Overall Opinion

I think this would make a great Mother’s Day gift, especially if your mom isn’t technologically inclined.  I don’t think it would be difficult for the average mom or grandma, with little digital camera experience to get the hang of this photo frame!  And at $79.95 on the Kodak site, it’s reasonably priced for a digital frame, as well!

I don’t have one to give away today.  I even have to send my test frame back.    But I’m thinking I might need to buy one for myself…unless my husband reads this review and gets one for Mother’s Day.

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