Nixplay Original 18 Inch Digital WiFi Photo Frame W18A - Wall-Mountable Digital Picture Frame with Motion Sensor and 10GB Online Storage, Display and Share Photos with Friends via Nixplay Mobile App

These are great photo frames. I have five in total an 18”, 15”, and three 12”. I have been looking at the NIX models that had motion sense for a long time, but held off due to them not having web connection which would require me to manually update the sd or usb thumbdrive for each frame. I bought my parents a Kodak pulse a few years back and loved how that worked with the motion and sound but Kodak never expanded to larger sizes and went bankrupt… This set me up to for the features that I wanted. I feel that the frames with only time scheduled turn on and off are still wasting a ton of electricity and are not smart enough. NIX/NIXplay is the best option I have found and the sizes of the screens and prices are awesome to boot. I will likely setup a second account to gift to parents and grandparents and still control their frames.So the motion sensors work really well detecting you and the images start displaying fast after a brief message about number of new photos. You can set the frames up to display newly added photos first before going into the rest of the slide shows. I really like this as they are new it’s nice to see them right away. You can have these keep jumping line for a day up to a week which is also nice.So a common thought before I got the frame is if I could remove the peg leg support on the back. Yes you can and there are mounting screw holes.Each screen comes with its own IR remote. They are all the same frequency and will control all screens that see signal at once. This can be awesome or slightly annoying depending on what you are doing. There are also buttons on the back of the frame or just hold remote near sensor if you only want the one frame to respond.Typing in the wifi password is the most annoying part of the frame which is to say they are awesome to use. It appears that it can remember multiple wifi sources however I haven’t had a need to test this.On a free account you can have up to five frames and 10 gigs of storage. This should be good for most users. Even if you have a frame and give a frame to family members to still control. It is easy to see all your frames in one spot. The web interface is pretty easy to figure out. Upload pictures to albums recommended max of 500 pictures. Then Albums go to slideshows and can go on frames. I experienced issues uploading pictures; however I was uploading in groups of 500 back to back for several albums. It is possible this was because you can select to optimize size pictures during upload which takes more thinking. I think for most cases it will be fine. As a backup and a stronger server I used Picasa for the rest of my albums which these frames integrate nicely with. You can have way more than 500 photos to a frame. I have 6 slideshows on one of the albums and it runs fine. 3000 pictures using only about 300mb of the 2gb available. The optimized pictures display fine on all of the screen sizes.For now I would recommend using the web storage feature as the usb and memory card features need some work yet and are much less plug and play.A huge positive note is there is a blog where they are actively taking feedback and responding to customers as well as good email traffic with help. I had an issue with my 18” that was resolved.The 18” is the nicest with a protective screen over the actual display. The others are just a screen. The 15” will be optimal for most people if you take normal 4:3 aspect. Most cellphones now default to a wide screen though and this is where the 18” really shines. You could also the 18” in a vertical mode for really nice portrait shots. The screen menus and pictures automatically rotate based on screen orientation. If you forgot to rotate a picture there is a nice convent button on the remote to do it instead of searching for it on the computer and uploading again.A slightly silly note: if you want to use remote to manually turn screens off you have to turn motion sense off and then use off button or screens turn off to turn right back on.The left/right viewing angles are really good. The up/down are not as great. So You want them at optimal viewing height unless it’s in portrait because up/down are now left right. This is the biggest complaint I see other than the usb/sd card ease of use which for many people there is no really need for that.I totally recommend these frames. They have 8”-18” the motion sense makes so much sense. They are reasonably priced and easy to use.

PROS1) Color and detail of pictures are vibrant2) Unit is light so you can handle it easily when trying to mount it (see below for why I say "try")CONS1) First item arrived pre-opened. Had seals broken that said on them "return if broken" so I did. Rebought unit and was shipped the EXACT same unit, seals still broken. Wow.2) Don't buy the 18.5" as very usable. See, this thing is way more Horizontal than it is Vertical. So your pictures that are vertical are VERY small. Your horizontal pictures either don't take up the whole screen or in enhanced views they scroll from top to bottom where most of the view is obscured. This is a terrible thing. Compared to my last viewer that was much more picture shaped, this is a step in the wrong direction. You can sell more INCHES but actually sell less screen. Screams cheap and not built for the function intended. IT's even too wide for most movies, it's not the shape of regular HD TV's. So the actual useful viewing area makes this more like a 10-12" picture frame, not 18.5" for all the unused edges off picture its sooo wide.3) Can't scroll through folders. All the pictures have to be flat in a folder. Or using online. Despite being WiFI, you can't grab pictures off your computer. It's setup so you have to use their services, so you have to eat up GB of Internet usage, not internal network. There should be an option for both, but they want your money, not to serve up functions.4) Options are severely limited. No folder tree traversal. Buttons on the remote don't work. There must be a limit to how many picture it can handle cause I was forced to put 9,000 files in one flat file to view them and every time I went to run it, it bowed out back to the setup screen. My last picture viewer had no problems like this, lots of options, and even a log dump so if something reset or crashed it could tell you what picture you were last on, some sort of state machine information to let you know where the problem was. This viewer has less options than free downloadable PC software, so it's cheap poor software.5) I didn't see any hardware to mount the thing by itself. And I don't see HOW one could mount it (see next number)6) To use the Wireless, you have to attach a large round donut plastic piece to the back. It's not even electronically attached to anything internally. But since it attached back away from the rear, you can't mount this against the wall like a picture frame. Since it's round, it gets in the way of a metal bracket product you can buy to mount TV's and monitors. So the screw to mount it with is too shallow and it gets in the way of the metal mount. I had to sort of attach it with a longer screw I had, but even then it can't lie flat against he wall. Can you say "Major Fail"? Yes, Major Fail.Despite most of this, I totally wanted to like this. Until it wouldn't even show any pictures on my USB stick.