Armed With Its Own Email Address, No Picture is Too Far For the Kodak Pulse Digital Frame

The world of digital photo frames seems to be filled with picture-perfect clones of devices that, marked by heard-em-all-before specs like Wi-Fi connectivity, touch-ready screens, and integration with your Flickr or Facebook account, are hard to distinguish. The eStarling TouchConnect started the latest trend in photo frame specs, which is also one of the smartest since Wi-Fi radios landed behind their electronic displays. That little ditty assigned a vanity Gmail address to your photo frame so that friends and family could update you with their latest vacation snapshots and abstract-artsy captures from the scene of the action.

The next frame to follow suit is the Kodak Pulse Digital Frame, a 7-inch touchscreen display with Wi-Fi capability (of course) that the Eastman Kodak Company announced today will sell for $129.99 come April 2010.

Sure that’s a four-month wait, but patience pays. That Wi-Fi capability we mentioned helps the Pulse sync both with devices on your home network or web services like Facebook and Kodak Gallery (no mention of Flickr or other photo networking sites), and the device comes with an email address that you can dole out to your relatives and buddies for instantaneous photo swappage.

There’s also a LED-backlit display that rocks a 800×600 resolution for decent picture clarity and 512MB of internal memory for up to 4,000 pictures, according to Kodak. And for those who resolved to go green for the new year, the Pulse contains a panel free of environmentally-harmful mercury, comes with a stamp of approval from Energy Star, and offers programmable power-down settings to help save both the moolah and the globe.