Nixplay or WiFi cloud picture frames

Warning: lots of details and features that may be irrelevant to you, but I never saw them spelled out anywhere and could understand them being important to you:

I bought a Pix-Star 10.4 Inch frame for my SO for Valentine's Day. For the life of me, I cannot remember why I chose Pix Star over Nixplay, but I do remember something sold me on it despite seeing Nixplay frames first. The frame has, among other things, its own email address. I timed it once, it was something near 2 minutes between an email with an attachment from my iPhone being sent to the frame to it being displayed. I think it's got 4gb of local storage, it can also "subscribe" to a multitude of online photo storage solutions, including individual facebook albums (so if your camera roll is set to auto upload to facebook, you could have the frame sync with that album and the frame would also get that photo).

It can also hold multiple slide shows/picture sets for you to choose from, so you can select a landscape album and later switch to a family one, or what have you. It also has an auto-on, auto-off by time feature where you can select an album to play (from 0900-1700, college spring break 04 pictures from facebook play, etc). I don't believe it's capable of auto-switching between albums ever, but the remote is alright. I do believe you can set it to show all pictures on it, regardless of album or multiple albums though.

The software on the device is fairly basic, but it works. Learning the controls on the frame itself is annoying, and I'm bad at it. I stick to the remote when possible for that reason. It's no more annoying than a flat screen TV's controls, but in terms of changing settings, it takes some getting used to.

It's able to stream music, I think it can even get the music from Pandora (or locally). The speakers aren't great, but they're not awful. I wouldn't ever try to present anything on it, but for home use it may be nice. You can also set an alarm/auto on to come on with music. I believe it's got a line out, too, so if you happen to have a little stereo system, it can be a source for it if music is desired.

I'm 99% positive it's got expandable storage in either USB or SD (maybe smaller sd but I think full any I'm too lazy to read the link I bought it from above), so storage shouldn't be a concern. 4gb of photos can go fast, but it can use wifi to access online, locally stored elsewhere (DLNA compatible or certified, I forget) stuff, so between expandable storage options + wifi, it shouldn't be a big issue.


All in all, the software is on the clunky side, the resolution is decent, and the ability to email pictures to it were a huge plus. I am heavily considering buying my grandmother a 15-inch frame from Pix Star and giving the email address to each of her ten children so they can send her family pictures that she wouldn't see/they don't post to facebook. Emailing to the frame is effortless (send image in attachment, subject line can be optional caption), and the frame accept's/adds the pictures in short order. There is a companion app that will not change settings, unfortunately, but allows you to send pictures to the frame in the absence of your email account.


I can't say a bad thing about or remember why I didn't purchase the NixPlay, but I can definitely recommend the above Pix Star frame.

While I'm sure that you're joking, I did not test the time that an auto-upload/sync'd picture would wind up on the frame, in case you're actually asking what they time is.