The standard account only works with 15s clips (you can choose where to trim longer clips), and you need to upgrade to Nixplay Plus (£4.99 a month or £49.99 a year) to get longer video clips, plus 50GB of cloud storage and support for 10 frames (up from five on a free account).Īs this is purely a frame for your photos, you can’t pull in other images or paintings from elsewhere, as you can with the rival Netgear Meural system. You’re not limited to photos either, as you can add videos to the frame, complete with audio delivered via the basic speakers. Google Photos can be used through the app, but if you use the web interface you can also pull in images from Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Flickr and (US only) Verizon Cloud. Doing this, Nixplay will pull in photos from the chosen Google Photos Album, updating automatically as you add and remove images. One easier way to get around this is to create a dynamic playlist that uses Google Photos. In effect, you may find yourself doing the same thing twice. Instead, you have to create a playlist and then choose photos from multiple albums. As you upload photos, you can put them into albums, but you can’t play an album on the Photo Frame. How you play photos is a little confusing. You can’t upload images directly to the frame and there’s no microSD card slot or USB port for local images, either. The Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 9.7 inch comes with 8GB of storage onboard, which acts as a cache for online photos in most cases, then, if your frame goes offline, you’ll find that you’ve still got your current set of images. You get 10GB of cloud storage for free, although the service will automatically resize images to fit the device that you’re using to save on-device space. Via the app, you get send photos and videos directly from your smartphone you can use the web interface to upload photos directly, too. Features – Some slightly fiddly aspects but there’s a huge choice of ways to show your photosĪs the Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 9.7 inch is all about showing off your photos, you’ll be pleased to know that there are lots of ways of getting images onto it using the app or web interface, once you’ve connected the frame to your Wi-Fi network. It’s handy to have this, letting you change what you’re watching or simply for turning off the screen when you’re not using it. Of course, there’s a cable to hide, as with other digital photo frames, but it’s not too hard to keep this out of sight in most installations.Īlthough the Smart Photo Frame can be controlled via the app, there’s also a remote control that magnetically attaches to the rear of the frame to keep it out of sight. You can also slide the stand off and wall-mount the photo frame, although you’ll need to choose the orientation you want it in. This flexible stand lets you set the photo frame in landscape or portrait modes easily. Otherwise, both versions are the same, with a neat patterned back that you’ll never see, and a clever bendable stand that doubles as the power input. The black version with its matt black plastic frame looks a little cheaper, and it looks far more like a tech product particularly with the two cutaways for the motion sensor (the silver version doesn’t have the motion sensor). The silver model, as I have on review here, is built to look much more like a regular photo frame and does that job well. Although both offer roughly the same features, there are some differences. There’s a choice of two versions: black or silver. That’s’ the same resolution screen as on the 9.7-inch iPads. Design – Looks like a photo frame, particularly if you have the silver versionĪlthough Nixplay has several photo frames in its line-up, I’ve focussed on the 9.7-inch version here, as it has the highest resolution of 2048 x 1536. If you’re looking for a convenient, high-resolution way to show your photos (and some videos), the Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 9.7 inch could well be for you. Digital photos frames were something of a naff trend a while ago, but thanks to improvements in screen technology, not to mention Wi-Fi, they’re starting to make a comeback.
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