We invented the email & social media empowered Wi-Fi digital photo frame and launched our first generation product as early as January 2006. Our definition of the best Wi-Fi photo frame should at least include the following features:

• Each frame has its own unique email address so that your friends and family can directly email photos within minutes, not hours.
• After an onetime set-up, photos from social networking sites, and photo sharing sites through RSS feed should arrive automatically on frame.

Of course, there are many more desirable features. The above two are the must-have features and almost all other so-called connected frames don't have them. So please double check before you buy.

Main Benefits

• Easy - Easy to set up, easy to navigate, easy to control
• Fast - View photos on the frame minutes after friends send them
• Handfree - Once setup, photos arrive automatically
• Social - Get photos from Social Network, RSS, Email and almost all online sources
• Fun - Add text, bubbled words to photos, twist photos and many other features

Feature Descriptions

• Email Frame: Each frame has its own unique email address so that photos can be received from computers or mobile phones. A built-in email filter protects against unwanted photos. No setup is required for senders to send photos to the frame.
• Social Media Frame: Through API integration, users can have pull friend's photos, as well as their own, directly from social networks and display them on the frame. Such networks include Facebook, MySpace, Photobucket, Flickr with more to come.
• RSS Frame: The eStarling frame supports all major RSS photo feeds, including Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, AOL, Smugmug, iPhoto, Gallery, and more. Users can recommend and share their favorite RSS photo feed among the eStarling community.
• Group Frame: Family and friends can set up a single email address that corresponds to multiple frames so that photos can be easily shared and displayed on those frames.
• Timed Play Setting: Users can choose photos to be displayed on an eStarling frame on specified dates, such as displaying selected photos on a user's birthday or anniversary.
• Other Features: A) Dual use - If no Wi-Fi connection is available, the eStarling frame can operate as a stand-alone digital photo frame. B) Power saving - the eStarling frame can be programmed to turn-off automatically at night in order to save power and protect the screen.

Service Term

• No subscription fee of standard service for the life of the frame for end-users
• Frame is refreshed automatically from the seeframe.com server every 3 minutes with any new photos
• Photos feeds from RSS & Social Networks get updated automatically hourly with the first 40 new photos
• Frame's on-board storage size holds up to 600 photos; applies new photo in, old photo out rotation
• Option to store original copies at Photobucket.com

More to Ask When Buying a Connected Frame

1) Why is it important to have a frame with a 4 / 3 ratio LCD display?

Answer: The majority of connected frames sold in the market now have a 16 / 9 ratio LCD display. Such widescreen frames use less expensive yet more readily available LCD displays as components. You can tell when you see resolution data such as 480 X 234, 800 X 480, and 800 X 400. They are all widescreen displays. The photos you shoot are mostly 4 / 3 in dimension. So when you use widescreen display to show photos, you lose about 25% of the viewing area. Our 8 inch frame has an 800 X 600 LCD display, which is the highest resolution 4 / 3 ratio 8 inch digital photo frame in the market.

2) I hear other connected frames allow for emailing photos to the frame too. What makes eStarling's Wi-Fi picture frame different?

Answer: Two unique features make our solution the best Wi-Fi digital picture frame when it comes to emailing photos. 1) Anyone, anywhere, anytime can send photos to your Wi-Fi photo frame. No setup, no registration, just attach the photo to an email and send. 2) The email address that identified the frame has to have a conventional alias as normal email addresses. We invented "direct emailing of photos to frame" and eStarling is the only product that can do this.

3) Why don't you charge subscription fees?

Answer: We dislike ANY subscription fees and so should you. The bottom line? If you are wondering where to buy a Wi-Fi photo frame, this is the place. We offer the best Wi-Fi digital picture frames at a great price and with no ongoing subscription fees!