The eStarling digital picture form make it late yesterday , and here ’s a warning : it ’s even uglier than itsunboxing picture we ’ve seenso far . Its USB dongle sticks out the top like an antenna , and the dog - ugly logo plaster across the top is not removable without mutilate its finish .
I plugged in its AC transcriber and connected it to a personal computer via its USB cable and it simply wo n’t communicate with the Wi - Fi connection . Even after configuring the Wi - Fi mesh to be entirely undetermined , still , no dice . There ’s more bad newsworthiness , too :
When I had no luck swipe up the eStarling picture systema skeletale to Wi - Fi , nothing else would work . You ca n’t even plug away in a instant memory placard and look at picture show unless you ’re connect to the Internet .
So I follow the support ’s direction to a universal resource locator that was not solve ( http://www.estarling.com/support ) . No , the genuine support reference ishttp://www.estarling.com/support.html . Sure , I calculate that out easily , but many consumers will be stumped by that , especially grandma .
Then more bad news : this is a 16×9 picture frame that ’s packing a simple 480×234 pixels . Besides being a resolution that ’s way too low for its 7 - in screen , its aspect ratio is n’t going to ferment out too well with 4×3 word-painting ( recall either black bars on each side or stretch exposure ) , and it ’ll get along peculiarly poorly with vertically - orient pics that will turn out to be just slight guesswork with expansive black taproom on either side .
But expect , could n’t you just orient the systema skeletale vertically ? Well yes , but then that horrible logo across the top will be bunk up the side , standing on end and looking even dumb .
We ’ll get some tech support Tuesday ( between 9 am and 7 promethium Eastern ) and see if this thing will work at all , but so far , my assessment is that the eStarling is a highly undesirable intersection . It ’s inexpensively made , is in an non - standard 16:9 aspect proportion with a relatively small - rez screen door , and it ’s frightful as shit and ca n’t be comprehend up with a conventional frame of reference because of its odd size of it and lasting building . It has a so - far nonworking USB dongle that ’s go to develop an odd smell as it heats up .
And finally , its cheap screen make a whining racket as you dim it , but it ’s quiet at its full brightness level . I can only wonder what the guywe colligate to yesterday at Gizgadgwas retrieve .
It ’s not take care upright , and certainly not worth any heroical last - minute attempts to get one under your tree diagram in clock time for Christmas . Caveat purchaser .
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