Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch review

Our Verdict

The Nixplay Smart Photo Frame x.1-inch Touch features the same high resolution display and sleek good looks every bit the visitor's remote control frames.

For

Excellent high resolution paradigm quality
Impact screen makes navigation easy
Good online/social media image access via apps
Includes a motility sensor

Against

No onboard SD cards or retentiveness sticks

Tom's Guide Verdict

The Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.i-inch Touch on features the same loftier resolution display and sleek good looks equally the visitor's remote control frames.

Pros

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First-class high resolution image quality
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Touch on screen makes navigation piece of cake
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Good online/social media image access via apps
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Includes a motion sensor

Cons

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No onboard SD cards or memory sticks

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch: Specs

Resolution: 1280 x 800
Dimensions: 10.55 x 7.40 x 1.53 inches
Bear on screen: Yep
Wi-Fi: Yes
Remote: No
Built-in storage: 8GB (minus pre-installed software)
Motion sensor: Yes
Music player: Yes
Video: Yes
USB/SD slots: No/No
Cloud Services: Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Flickr, Google Photos

Nixplay'south Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch is a digital picture and video device that's loaded via a dedicated iOS or Android smartphone app, your smartphone gallery, or reckoner. The frame facilitates a versatile operation that suits non-technical users and can draw from a number of popular online photographic and social media sources. That, plus a built-in movement sensor, mitigates the weakness of information technology not accepting any physical onboard images.

Every bit you will see from our Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 Inch Touch review, this frame is a great choice whether you're new or experienced with this kind of product.

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Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.ane inch Touch review: Price and availability

Nixplay'southward Smart Photo Frame ten.one inch Touch on is a rare bird in Nixplay country, equally a touch on screen digital photo frame among remote controls. The Nixplay frame itself costs $208 from Amazon, and its basic storage and deject plan is free. However, dissimilar most other digital frames, Nixplay offers an opportunity for power users to add more cloud storage and variety to their frame experience via a Nixplay Plus subscription for $5 per month or $fifty per year. With it, you tin connect up to x frames in a single account (as opposed to five), alongside 50GB of storage and the ability to play upward to ane-minute video clips, as opposed to just 15 seconds.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Bear upon review: Design

The Nixplay Smart Affect Photograph Frame comes in black, white, or Wood Result, with clean lines that sit nicely in any room. The black frame, which we tested, likewise has some slick gold detailing around the edges and in the back that complement the honeycomb design. Information technology's not ostentatious or obvious, but nosotros're not certain it adds much in terms of style other than to differentiate this frame from the like remote command one.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch sitting upright — (Image credit: Tom's Guide)

On the back of the frame — which you can brandish in portrait or mural mode on a tabletop or mounted — you must remove a pocket-sized panel to access the socket. The Bear upon model as well has a new adaptable base that fits direct on the frame. Information technology'south certainly stable, and is more aesthetically pleasing than the gooseneck stand built into the remote controlled model of the frame, but it doesn't give you as much bending flexibility.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch review: Image Quality

Nixplay is famous for its loftier resolution displays and the Smart Touch photo frame does not disappoint with its resolution of 1280 x 800, which looks a lot better than information technology sounds, peculiarly on a frame of that size. The frame features a full Hard disk screen for beautiful playback, with an adaptable dynamic voice and motion sensor that turns the frame on or off automatically and then at that place's non too much of a good thing that wastes electricity. This frame also works with Amazon's Alexa or Google vocalism commands.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch set up box sitting on table — (Image credit: Nixplay)

Images automatically switch between portrait and landscape when oriented vertically or horizontally. You can ready your choice of transitions between photos, time intervals, and durations. You can too set the frame to hide or show captions, a clock, and new photo notifications. A Labs section lets you choose a Smart Face Framing setting, which emphasizes faces in your photos, only can too cutting off big portions of the picture, depending on the limerick.

The Nixplay Smart frame accepts photos that are remotely loaded and videos are express to 15 seconds unless yous upgrade to Nixplay's Plus service.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame x.one inch Touch review: Interface

Unlike other Nixplay frames nosotros have reviewed, the new 10.1-inch Bear upon frame operates with a touchscreen panel that offers direct admission and control of the frame. The touchscreen menus are piece of cake to navigate and encompass about settings. Just tap on the screen once and the resulting menu lets y'all view your photos and playlists or put the frame to slumber.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch displaying settings — (Image credit: Tom'due south Guide)

There are multiple ways to view images such every bit Fit to Screen, Fill screen, Pan and Zoom, and more, which yous tin can pair with a dozen transitions like Jump cut and Cross fade. You lot can also adjust the book for videos and the screen brightness. You can program slide shows to switch out images in every bit fiddling as v seconds or as long as an hour. It would be nice to take more than interval variety, especially for the easily distracted where images rotate one time or twice a day.

It'south piece of cake to add, remove, and rearrange the pictures and videos in your Nixplay business relationship. Subsequently the photos have been uploaded to the cloud, a notification on the Nixplay picture frame screen tells you when new photos arrive.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch app allows you upload images — (Image credit: Nixplay)

Friends and family tin can likewise bring together in the fun of uploading photos to your frame via their ain Nixplay account or they can email photos direct to the frame. You can tap into social media and online accounts as well, including Facebook, Google Photos, Instagram, Dropbox, Flickr, or Verizon to add them to a playlist. Nixplay has a detailed online dashboard site you can log into for access from your computer to move images between frames, rearrange playlists, add together and remove images, and generally track what's getting sent and removed from your frames. Do not misfile albums with playlists: Nixplay stores the former, but will just testify the latter.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame ten.1 inch Touch review: App

With Nixplay, you can apply the iOS or Android app to securely share photos and xv-2d video clips from your telephone to the frame

Adding the frame to my existing business relationship was simple, and the company offers abundant configuration settings for each frame. You lot can also remotely command images on the frame from the app. Nixplay also provides a service for ordering prints and enlargements.

Nixplay Smart Photo Frame 10.1 inch Touch: Verdict

Nixplay'south Smart Photo Frame 10.i inch Touch on is a smashing improver to the company'southward impressive lineup of digital photo frames. It's a compact midsize frame that blends nicely with whatsoever room, and its vivid clear screen lets the personality of your images have charge of the visual landscape. It's voice and move activated sensor prevents whatsoever waste matter of electricity while its ease of use and diversity of online inputs make it a great pick for far flung and technically challenged families.

Nixplay's other non touchscreen frames, such as the Nixplay 10.1 Inch Smart Digital Picture Frame, characteristic a separate remote command that lets you lot avoid handling and impairing the look of the glass covering your photo, just since nigh features are comparable, choosing a touch frame is solely a matter of gustation. It's overnice that Nixplay offers the option, especially for customers who are loath to add another remote to their collection.

Jackie is an obsessive, insomniac tech writer and editor in northern California. A wild fauna abet, cat fan, and photo app fanatic, her specialties include cross-platform hardware and software, art, design, photography, video, and a broad range of creative and productivity apps and systems. Formerly senior editor at Macworld and inventiveness editor at The Next Web, Jackie now writes for a variety of consumer tech publications.