![]() ![]() This is an awkward solution when it would be more appropriate to simply not crop vertical shots and crop horizontal shots just enough to remove the letterbox effect. The picture frame does include a function, found within the settings menu, that allows you to switch from shrink-to-fit to fill-the-screen, but the fill-the-screen function isn’t a crop-to-fit but a fill-and-pan function. The screen is 4:3 ratio, but most digital camera photos are 3:2 as such there is a black band at the top and bottom of photos that aren’t manually cropped.While adequate for the task, the 800×600 resolution screen is rather low-resolution in the age of retina display tablets and razor sharp computer monitors.It’s fast photos sent by email or transferred from the web portal appear on the Nixplay unit within around 5 seconds.The $99 price point is very reasonable for the quality of the product and the number of features included it’s currently the best value in the Wi-Fi enabled picture frame category and offers so much more than other email-only picture frames the free-for-the-first-frame business model is also superior to other companies that require $5-15 accounts for even a single frame.Simple setup and remote album management makes it perfect for less–than-tech-savvy relatives.Motion detection and time-based-sleep minimizes power use and keeps the frame on only when someone is around to look at it.Includes both an SD card slot and USB port for fast local loading (and with those external slots, even if the company folds you can still keep using the frame sans cloud-sharing functionality).Multiple methods of sharing photos with the frames you can share them via the Nixplay webpage, via email, and from Facebook, Instagram, and Picasa albums.What’s the verdict at the end of the day? We’ve played with it, we’ve emailed it photos, we’ve dumped social media albums onto it, we even took it over the river and through the woods to Grandma’s house and left it with her. When you’re logged into your Nixplay account, all you have to do is click on Frames and then the specific frame you want to manage and you’ll see this panel: Realistically, if you’re giving this photo frame to a relative specifically because they’re not heavy social media/computer users and you want a way to share digital photos with them, it’s great that you can also remotely manage the device. From the unit itself, you can go into a settings menu to adjust things like when the unit sleeps, how the motion detection works, whether or not the unit should display the most recent photos or start from the beginning each time, etc. ![]() Before we do that however, we want to point out one of the fantastic little touches that really sells the Nixplay photo frame as the photo frame to get for all those aunts, uncles, grandparents, and great grandparents in your life: they included a remote management tool for all the settings. Once you enter the word prompt from the Nixplay screen, you can hop over to your Nixplay web account and start loading pictures. ![]()
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