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Amazon’s first digital picture frame lets you add voice notes to photos
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The Alexa Photo Frame can use the smart assistant to choose your best photos based on lighting, smiles, and the season.
The Alexa Photo Frame can use the smart assistant to choose your best photos based on lighting, smiles, and the season.
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Amazon’s screen-equipped smart speakers have long been able to display your family’s photos, but its new Alexa Photo Frame is purpose-built for that task. It’s designed to compete with other digital picture frames from companies like Aura, and Amazon’s incorporates a smart speaker with access to Alexa Plus’ capabilities through voice commands. However, unlike the Echo Show and Amazon’s other smart home hubs, the Alexa Photo Frame only ever displays your photos, and you’ll never be served an ad.
The Alexa Photo Frame is available starting today; it’s $199.99 for a black frame or $229 if you want to upgrade to a frame made from birch or walnut wood. It pulls images from Amazon Photos, which offers unlimited storage for Prime members, but otherwise the frame doesn’t require a subscription. The Amazon Photos app can back up photos from your Android or Apple devices and pull images from iCloud Photo, but importing from Google Photos isn’t supported yet.
The frame has a 10-inch touchscreen display with a “semi-matte, anti-glare finish” to simulate the look of physical prints. A light sensor adjusts the display’s brightness throughout the day, and it sits on a detachable stand.