TAO 1.4-Inch Digital Picture Keychain (Square)

Product Description

Load up to 56 of your favorite digital pictures on this unique digital picture key chain. View them anywhere in full color. Your mini album or carry along bragbook was never this light or convenient. Able to store up to 56 images directly from your PC or Mac, you will be able to easily share your memories on the go.

Customer Reviews:

DON'T BUY! DON'T BUY! DON'T BUY!.......2007-12-18

AWFUL! When you install the software, you first see a website with NUMEROUS spelling errors--sort of third-world product. The software tried to load several high-risk items. Then, when loading pictures, the software kept giving me error messages (after freezing up) and it was an act of God to actually load any pictures. THEN, the quality of the picture is better on a kids' cell phone! Even with excellent eyesight, the pictures are just TOO GRAINY. For a few bucks, that's one thing. For $50, no way. DON'T BUY. WISH I WAS TOLD THIS BEFORE...will see how easy it is to return. Cross fingers.

Save your money- can you say "pixelated"?.......2007-12-01

I am SO disappointed. I had a fight with my hubby over this- I said this would be such a lovely gift for his step mother - he said "she wants a gift card for Christmas" - I defended this item as a great present. Boy, was I wrong. The packaging is amazingly classy and beautiful. That must be what I paid for. The CD instructions give me choices- I can go to Menual Instructions, Regesteration, or Install - so the technical writers creating the CD didn't proofread or let an English speaker test their product.

But the real problem, the one that forces me to pack the item back up in the pretty box, is the pixelation - the resolution SUCKS, absolutely SUCKS. This product completely fails in its main objective. Shame on TAO.

FOUR! OUCH!.......2007-11-20

Purchased 3 for gifts. Gave the first 1. Defective. Gave the 2nd 1. Defective. Thank goodness I had a 3rd to have her try. Emailed TAO 10/21/07. Respone on 11/13/07. No assitance and/or help with replacement. SOOO. Returned 2 defective devices via Amazon/Target. ESTIMATED SHIP date for replacements, 12/31/07. To late for XMAS. A Blessing? Please research functionality, support software and quality before buying. I wish I would have before I paid for a product that has filling station counter quality and value.

great product.......2007-11-15

I really liked the keychain. I got it for my mom for Christmas this year so I went in and loaded the software and put some pictures on it. The pictures are good quality for as small as they are and it was so easy to use and get the pictures on the keychain. You can even edit each picture before putting it on. After the holidays, I am going to get one for myself also.

The big picture.......2007-10-28

Purchased this for a friend who had twins I uploaded the photographs after it charged and discovered that the image looked okay at best when looking at the screen you can see the individual pixels that make up the image something that does not have to be as I own a digital camera and the screen on the back of the camera has a much sharper natural look.

This product is disappointing.

TAO 1-Inch Digital Picture Keychain (Square)

Average customer rating:

good idea, big dissapointment
Find something else to spend your money on.
Nice novelty item, if the price is right
Bad Photo Quality
OK, just don't expect too much

TAO 1-Inch Digital Picture Keychain (Square)

Manufacturer: Tao Music, Inc.
ProductGroup: Photography
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Holds 56 photos, features 2 different viewing modes
Load photos from PC/Mac with included software: internal flash memory
Vivid, clear actual color reproduction photo
Charge the internal battery by connecting it to your PC/Mac's powered USB port or AC adapter
Handy keychain

ASIN: B000B2VKQA

Product Description

Show photos anytime, anywhere with this clever key chain.

Features:

Load up to 56 photos from your computer
1" display size
Portable and lightweight
Battery operated

Includes:

USB Cable
AC Adaptor
CD-ROM
User's Manual

Share your pictures when you're on the go.

Window Operating System, 2000 or later.

Customer Reviews:

good idea, big dissapointment.......2007-01-21

I worked for two hours trying to get this to function correctly. I tried to make the images as small as possbile so that they would display - nothing worked. Except the demo photos. Following the recommendation of the other post, I'm going to edit them in another photo editor.

It seems like quite a lot of work for the novelty.

Find something else to spend your money on........2007-01-02

I got my keychain as a gift from my brother. It was new still in the box. He had not taken it out and played with it like some of the people that have writen reviews. I followed the instructions exactly. I did not have any problems using the software, other than it looks like it was writen by a five year old. The problem I have is that my keychain came with a bad battery. The only way to view the pictures is to plug it into a wall outlet. There is no way to replace the battery when it goes bad. I went to TAO's website and this looks like a common problem. Do they not test their products before shipping them? Who makes a digital product that runs on batteries, but makes it so that the batteries can not be replaced?

Nice novelty item, if the price is right.......2006-12-03

This is a nice novelty item, but don't expect too much from it. Steer clear unless Amazon lowers the price. I purchased a similar model from another online merchant for less than one quarter of Amazon's current price (the only difference appears to be the capacity -- 28 vs. 56 photos) and was happy enough that I ordered more as gifts. Unfortunately you do need to install the driver software on your computer. I don't know why they couldn't make the computer recognize it as an external storage device; perhaps it's because the device has so little memory that it uses a proprietary storage format (as well as, I assume, a proprietary image file format). The images are only 64 x 96 pixels, so you can easily resize images to that size on your computer to get an idea of the resolution that you can expect. (On my device -- I assume it's the same on this one -- the bottom few pixels are shaded darker to display the caption, so realistically it's only about 56 x 96 resolution.) I don't know about the color depth, but I suppose at that resolution it may not matter much. The contrast is reasonably good; the device is light and feels kind of cheaply made. I certainly wouldn't put it in a pocket or purse with keys jangling around. But it is a fun way to carry snapshots around, and it makes a nice novelty gift (though I'd suggest preloading it with photos in case the recipient doesn't want to bother installing the software).

Bad Photo Quality.......2006-10-26

Great idea but they have to come up with a way to make the picture look better on the screen. It does not matter what you do to the picture as far as editing it just wont come out looking crisp. Hopefully my husband will like it as I have bought it for him as a birthday gift. I guess he will just have to use some of his imagination when looking at the pictures of our son.

OK, just don't expect too much.......2006-07-22

This product is cheap and basically does what it promises. It may deserve more stars because of that, but it just isn't very high quality. Photos are hard to see given size and resolution of screen. You need good head shots and not much else. There are larger more expensive products of this type out there. I'd go that route rather than purchase this again.

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