The hole pattern on the rear of the frame is also VESA standard, so you can use it with readily available VESA mount accessories. The frame ships with the mounting hardware you need, as well as a hole pattern template for putting the screw in the wall. Unlike the Seed frame, the Smart Photo Frame also has the ability to be mounted on the wall by removing the rear stand. Even the packaging rivals that of an Apple product, and the frame feels beefier and much more high-end than the cheaper Seed model. The Smart Photo Frame is a little more expensive than the Seed frame, but once you get the box you can see that Nixplay has really endeavoured to make a more premium product.
The power cable connects into the flexible stand. This makes the 9.7″ version the most expensive one, at $329.99, but if you are really into your photography then it’s well worth the small premium over the other lower-resolution frames that also have the less suitable aspect ratios. The 9.7″ version also has a higher 2k (2048X1536) resolution than the larger versions of the same product, and having all those pixels packed into the small 9.7″ size makes for a beautiful, crisp image. I understand that Nixplay can’t offer every aspect ratio under the sun, and I totally get why they went with 4:3 instead of 3:2, which is of course, because of the popularity of smartphones like the iPhone. Yes, with my images from cameras that shoot 3:2 images, there is still a little bit of cropping required, but it’s not nearly as dramatic and I’m perfectly happy with it. This issue is all but solved with the introduction of the 9.7″ Smart Photo Frame with its much more suitable-for-photographers 4:3 aspect ratio. It wasn’t limited to Nixplay, either, I had the same reservations about the much more expensive Meural digital frame, too. As someone who spends an awful lot of time getting my photos framed “just so” in the viewfinder, I found this annoying. In my review of the previous Seed frame, the 16:9 was my biggest bugbear because it meant that I either had to crop my images significantly to show them on the frame, or I had to have huge black borders on either side. On the other hand, the other three sizes of the frame (10.1″, 13.3″, 15.6″) are a much wider 16:9 aspect, the same as your TV. Although this frame does come in three other sizes, the important thing to know is that the aspect ratio of the 9.7-inch frame is 4:3, the same as many digital cameras, the same as the iPhone camera and not far off the 3:2 aspect of all other digital cameras. In this review, I am specifically looking at the 9.7-inch version of the Smart Photo Frame, and I would probably suggest that you do too if you are an avid photographer. Available with a black plastic frame (as reviewed) or a silver metal frame. This is a fantastic digital frame, and a big step forwards from the one I last reviewed. Recently Nixplay launched a new frame called the Smart Photo Frame, and they asked me to take a look at this next generation of the frame, teasing that it fixed some of the things I wasn’t so happy with on the Seed frame. In the past I have reviewed the Nixplay Seed digital picture frame and found it to be a good, but not quite perfect product.
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