Modern digital photo frames are great, making it easy to show off your digital photos and even share it with family and friends. Amazon is no stranger to the category, having released product that do those things in the past. This time around, tough, the outfit is putting their intelligent assistant inside one with the Amazon Alexa Photo Frame.
That’s right, they made a digital photo frame with Alexa inside, allowing you to just tell Alexa which photo you want displayed and have it take care of the rest. No need to scroll through your photo collection just to find that one with your kids and giraffe – just tell Alexa the details and let it figure things out on its own.
The Amazon Alexa Photo Frame has a 10.1-inch display, making it ideal for setting down on a shelf or side table. The display has a matte finish, too, so you can see photos clearly with no glare or reflections. Images displayed on the frame can be uploaded via the Amazon Photos app, which gives you free unlimited cloud storage if you’re an Amazon Prime member. By default, Alexa will pick the best available images for display on its own, even updating it to a preset schedule. According to the outfit, it picks photos intelligently. During Christmas season, for instance, it will pick holiday and winter photos, while prioritizing vacation pictures during summer. It will also pick images where the people are smiling and where the lighting is good.
You can, of course, pick specific images and set your desired refresh schedules, so you can have a rotating selection of photos that get shown off. According to the outfit, you can even choose a specific person or group of people to be featured on the frame. That means, if you gift one of these photo frames to your parents, you can have it feature their grandkids more frequently, which they’ll probably enjoy. It can also show two images side by side if it detects that they’re related.
The Amazon Alexa Photo Frame doesn’t require you to use the app to do all those, by the way, Instead, you can just talk to Alexa and have it change any setting you want. For instance, you can tell it to show vacation photos from Asia and it will know exactly what to do, which is so much more convenient than having to scroll through a long list of photos and ticking each one you want to be included. It even lets you add voice notes to photos, which can be played through the built-in speaker, in case you want a story to go with each picture.
The frame has a microphone for talking to Alexa, of course, with a mute button on the back for folks who don’t trust microphones running live in the background. It also has a light sensor that automatically adjusts the display’s brightness depending on ambient lighting. while a textured soft white bezel surrounds the screen. You can get it with either birch or walnut wooden frames.
The Amazon Alexa Photo Frame is available now, priced starting at $199.99.
