We've purchased several digital frames in the past that really didn't quite live up to our expectations. Whether it was uploading pictures to them, user interface issues, or simply viewing pictures from across the room, one reason or another resulted in them all eventually being consigned to a drawer and being forgotten.
My wife has five sisters who’ve all recently purchased digital frames of one variety or another. Not being the one to be left out, she asked me to get her one for her birthday. After sorting thru the various features, options, reviews, & cost, I crossed my fingers and ordered the 15.6 Inch Large Frameo Digital Photo Frame. Turns out I couldn’t be more pleased. When it arrived, I found it trivial to set up and use. Though there are several ways to upload photos into the device, for me the simplest was to connect it to our WIFI, download the Frameo app to our phones and then dump whatever photos we wanted into the unit. The colors are brilliant and crisp and easily viewable from across the room.
Importantly the photo frame has a touch screen which easily allows the user to go quickly to settings and other options as well to edit the photo gallery uploaded into the frame. The photo frame can also display short video clips with sound (a feature we turned off when we kept hearing “unknown voices” somewhere in the house).
One thing that initially threw me off was that when using the Frameo upload app, by default the photos were always scaled to fill the frame (with a 1:1 aspect ratio). Since photos can be portrait or landscape, sometimes parts of the photo were cut off and not displayed. My previous frames didn’t do this but then I gradually realized since the Frameo app allows you to select the center of photo as you upload it, the result is probably better in most cases as the most interesting portions of the photo is displayed. In those cases where it is not, you can use the touchscreen gallery feature to select the photos you want to be displayed to fit the frame. Perfect.
All-in-all a great purchase in terms of quality and value and would recommend this to anyone interested in displaying their favorite memories and in keeping their wife happy!
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