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ZDNET's key takeaways
The Nixplay smart frame retails for $199 and comes in black, white, or wood.
It's easy to set up, and you can invite family and friends to add photos to your frame (even if they don't own a Nixplay).
The frame is expensive, especially given that horizontal photos show up pixelated and cut off.
Remember digital photo frames? They were all the rage in the late 1990s/early 2000s -- when parents and grandparents alike had to own one. They seemed to decline in popularity, but I'm here to say we should make digital photo frames "in" again.
I got my hands on a Nixplay Touch 10 Smart Frame, and I'm impressed. As a millennial, I take hundreds of photos on my phone but rarely print them out to display them in my home. Although digital photo frames are typically associated with older adults, I think everyone should give them -- or at least the Nixplay Touch 10 Smart Frame -- a try.
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The Nixplay Touch 10 Smart Frame comes in black, classic matte, and wood. It has 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon and over 22,000 ratings -- so digital photo frames must not be totally out of style.
Setting up the frame was unsurprisingly easy. First, I downloaded the Nixplay app, connected the frame to my home's Wi-Fi, and then paired the frame to the app. I used the free standard plan with the frame, which includes unlimited cloud storage, 5GB of videos, and the basic photo editing suite.
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