Pexar Black 11'' 2K WiFi Digital Picture Frame (Powered by Lexar)

THIS is the answer to "What am I going to do with all those photos and movies?" "Is my photo collection just a hoarding vanity project never to be seen?" THIS IS YOUR SOLUTION! PROs: Top quality 1080p (really "2K" or 1200p vertical pixel density - which is even better! IPS type display panel) TOUCHscreen (you can finger swipe back and forth at any time). Good color depth, color and grayscale fidelity Good viewing angles, anti-glare coating. Plays back still photos and/or MPEG (.MP4) movies (with audio on or muted if you want). No hiccups or flakiness. Shuffle or timeline play. Shows tile title date - IF you want it. Shows current time of day in upper right corner (12 or 24 hr) IF you want it. Shows current temperature and sunny/cloudy/rain symbols - IF you want that. You don't have to buy the upgraded Frameo app if you don't want to. It works just fine (and I'm pretty happy) with the standard app. It's not too big and not too small. Two or three people could stand next to each other and enjoy the picture from a few feet away, yet the frame doesn't "take over". You can find a spot for it. The frame "matte" built into the black frame outline does a decent job of mimicking a real photo frame matte. You can use BOTH the internal storage and any docked external storage (USB or SD card) at the same time. Picture quality is GREAT out of the box. No need to fuss but you can control cropping and brightness if you want to. CONS: Must be powered by AC wall adapter. The darn thing works so well, I want to use it like a tablet, makes me wish it had an internal battery that would function for an hour or two when frame unplugged. Oh well, it's still a heck of a unit. I loaded my files with a tiny Samsung USB drive. You have to use either FAT32 or XFAT file system (NTFS file system pen drives will not be recognized). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BOTTOM LINE: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! We are very pleased. UPDATE 10/05/2024 IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING YOUR MOVIES TRANSFERRED and "RECOGNIZED" by the PEXAR. Technical tip to owners of Sony and Panasonic digital cameras as far as movies are concerned, something that might help your movie files get "recognized" by this Pexar device: If you have any 1080p (i.e. High Definition pixel density) MOVIE files created by your camera that have an .MTS file format (file extension), YOU'LL WANT TO RENAME THAT FILE EXTENSION TO BE: .MP4 (stands for Motion Picture Expert Group 4) file extension. You'll want to do this before transfering the files if you are using external storage (like USB-pen flash drive, SD ("Secure Digtal") card, etc. Once you do what is mentioned above, the PEXAR can then recognize these renamed movie files and play them just fine For the geeks or curious, MTS (aka MPEG Transport Stream) is a container wrapper of sorts for an MP4 file. Internet search will tell you how / why these variances of video formats came about. It doesn't matter, once you rename the file extension to .MP4, the movie will play just fine in the PEXAR frame. You want to "swim with the biggest school of fish" in the technical world of video (if you want the least hassle) and the .MP4 format is exactly that in the world of High Definition (HD) video. P.P.S. I also owned some ANCIENT home movies from a 12 year old Fuji digital camera taken in .AVI format (Audio Video Interleave). I had to do a file conversion of them to .MP4 format so the PEXAR could successfully play them. . I used a simple movie editing software (Windows Movie Maker - no longer made, but there are other conversion software utilities running around that can do the job). Once I did that, the movies shot in this old format play just fine in the Pexar frame. ABOUT VIDEO LENGTH: Some users have stated a 15 second video length limit. That has not been my personal experience. I successfully have this frame playing videos of 2 minutes long of my kitty cat wallering in the driveway. This is 24 fps (frames per second) .MP4 files. HOWEVER, you ** will ** get a warning that importing that large video will eat into your 32GB of internal memory. Such is life. NOTE: I am ** not ** relying on the paid subscription Frameo app. I just use a USB pen drive. Even with importing probably quantity: 6 X 2 or 3 minute length HD .MP4 videos, I still have somewhere around 8 or 10 GB of internal memory left at this point. P.P.S. WHAT FOLLOWS IS BORING, IT MAY HELP A FEW OF YOU WHO ARE NEW: Those of you with mega fancy cameras (full frame or APS-C Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc cams) that produce 20MB+ files: There is no need to fill up the internal memory in this frame with 20MB per photo file sizes, that is overkill and ridiculous. (My opinion). JPEG (or .JPG) is what you want as a file format type/medium for still photos with this frame. An 850KB to 1MB per picture JPEG file at 200 Pixels per inch ("pixel density") will do fine for 1080p viewing resolution and, if you want it a bit nicer (i.e. 1200dpi vertical , roughly "2K" viewing resolution) then bump up your saved file size to say 1.2MB per photo size. There are a lot of photo editing programs out there that will do "interpolation" to reduce / downsize your monster sized pure-overkill source file size to work with this 11" frame size display. (i.e. Photo software that will keep aspect ratio/proportion while reducing pixel density). You will gain some file "compression" when you downsize the file. So what? Few people can tell a difference on a frame of this size. Your goal should be to get things done while delivering a decent quality experience...right? You could, in a pinch, use one of those screen snipping software tools that comes native with your operating system and just select, snip, and capture a full screen display of the original photo/file AND THEN save that screen capture output (which will likely be 72 dots per inch (dpi) from the "clipboard" into a paint program as a JPEG. Very crude but it would get you by till you purchase a true photo editing program. Most beginners will be fine (or probably better served maybe) by a "lite" version photo editor. Again it's just my opinion. YMMV.

This is what a high quality digital photo frame should be. It has a simple design, great matte display, high resolution and great color accuracy and viewing angles. I have tested the frame with some of my B&W photos, and they have a nice neutral color... not overly blue. I may still add some warmth to my B&W photos, but again that is a personal preference. Set up was simple without using wifi and I was able to easily add photos from a usb drive. I did connect to wifi to check the firmware, and an update was available and easily installed without any issues. The touch screen is very responsive, and the ability to remember each photos settings is a nice addition. The ability to set a schedule to turn off the display was easy to configure. The brightness out of the box was very high for my tastes, but was easily turned down to a much more appropriate level. I would have preferred a 4x3 ratio display over the frames 5x3 due to the cropping that needs to happen on most of my photos, but it is slightly better than the overly narrow 16x9 ratio of many other frames. I was actually going to pick up the larger 15.6 inch display, but that is 16x9 and lower resolution than this 11" model. I would love to see a larger, higher-res version of this frame in a 4x3 aspect ratio.

First of all, this is not a paid review unlike many of them on here for some reason. However, this thing is incredible. Good value compared to everything else. The Frameo app isn't bad, if you subscribe it makes it easier to share large quantities of photos at a time. Without a subscription, you can still share all the photos you want to the device until it runs out of storage (internal storage is 32gb), however, you're limited to 10 photos at a time to upload which is a pain. I recommend just using external storage for all your own photos, and use the internal storage to share a Frameo code to friends and family so they can add their own photos whenever. You can export photos to external storage through the device, as well as backup everything which is nice. Wifi connectivity works fine, 2.4ghz only. Make sure if you're using an SD card or flash drive (highly recommend), that you format it to FAT32, otherwise it won't recognize the device to play photos/videos. It will recognize all the way up to 1 TB on the external storage if you format it to FAT32. The screen on it is very bright, all the way up to 400nits and the resolution of it at 11 inches makes for a very high density PPI, making the photos super clear. Very happy with it. Touch screen is responsive and works fine for a digital frame. Glad I went with it over the Aura Carver or Nixplay, and is a better value even which is crazy! Update 1/18/25: For videos, this will playback videos of all length from external or on internal storage, however, the video must be a maximum of 1920x1080 resolution. If you have videos above this resolution make sure to bring them down to 1080p using a program such as Handbrake on the computer. Hope this helps!

It works well. Easy to set up. Very easy to select photos from an iPhone for display except the size of the image is small in the app. A tip is to select photos first for display on the iPhone, put into album, then transfer to frame. (An iPad is even better). The digital Frame image is excellent. I haven’t tried videos yet. One disappointment is there is no app for the PC.

Update: Customer support did get back to me. The trick is to disable notifications, and the nagging message goes away. I have raised the review to 4 stars. Original review: I purchased this to display photos of my recently deceased cat. The product itself is quite nice. The screen is a good resolution, the anti-glare finish is very nice, and photos look fantastic on it. One of the reasons I purchased this frame is that Lexar was very clear in their FAQ and marketing literature on Amazon and the Lexar site say that it will work just fine without WiFi. I don't want to have yet another security risk on my network, nor do I want yet another device which demands an ongoing subscription fee to use it. Unfortunately, every morning I am greeted with an annoying error message that "Your frame is currently offline." I don't want it online, ever, and I am disappointed that I have to dismiss this message regularly in order to just appreciate photos of my deceased cat. There is no way that I have found to turn this message off in the product, and Lexar customer support has not yet responded to my inquiry about this.

This is by far the best of any photo frame I have purchased or researched. My use case is simple: I want to be able to load a bunch of images on an SD card, plug that into a digital photo frame, and randomly show photos throughout the day. At my office there isn’t a public Wi-Fi available, so that instantly kills both Aura and Skylight – not to mention the price tags attached to those options. The 11in Pexar hits all of the boxes perfectly. The anti-glare finish is amazing – it does make the photos a tiny tiny bit fuzzier than the truly glossy finishes, but it’s not noticeable unless you’re looking for it, and the anti-glare solves incident sunlight or overhead lighting issues. I’ve had a couple of other Frameo options, and even the other “anti-glare” options are still very glossy (see image with this review, there are lights overhead of both frames). It takes a full-size SD card, and it has no issues reading from my 128GB. The SD card does have to be formatted to FAT32, which on Windows is a problem if you’re trying to format an SD card over 32GB, but there are free utilities like GUIFormat from Ridgecrop that solve that problem. Because this runs the Frameo software, it has all of the other features I wanted. It can play directly from the SD card without transferring, it has a timer so it turns off automatically at night when I’m not at work, it can shuffle the photo order, you can choose between zooming to fill or fitting to frame, and you can choose what bits of information (or none) you want overlayed on the photos. The screen is a plastic material, but it’s very well built and completely flat. There is no waviness in the screen that I’ve seen on other Frameo options. The power button is on the top which is nice; many others have it on the back where you can’t see it to press it. I like this enough that I’m tempted to just buy another; either to use at home or just to have a spare on hand in case this is ever discontinued.

Long story short: No subscription required, just does what you would expect and looks good. I think it's easy to use and I'm sure it would make a great gift as you can preload it with photos. You can use the app to send photos to it over wifi, and even let other people out of the home be "friends" so they can push photos to it I think? Not super into that because I think they get stored temporarily in the cloud and I'm not trying to be super paranoid but yeah it's another place where some company would then have your data so to speak. Do with that info what you will, but otherwise you can load (and/or run directly from the storage) pictures on it via USB which is pretty easy, if less convenient. If you mostly use your phone for pictures—the app is probably easier as long as you don't need to do too many photos at a time since it will limit you to 10 at a time. There's a lot more little nuanced things I'm sure but it's a good frame and you know you won't have to deal with some sort subscription. It plays photos. We love it. Guests comment on it and like to look at our scrolling variety of photos.

NOT as advertised!!!!! Bought this for about $139, at 20% off...when I opened it, and turned it on, it said "Frameo" and had the same menu structure and screen size as a Frameo I bought for about $60 and returned because it locked up on first use. The device frame is cosmetically different than the Frameo but it appears to be not just the splash screen that says it is Frameo, the menu structure is the same also. See photos. I bought the Pexar - Lexar based on brand name recognition, apparently this no longer makes sense when it comes to Lexar. (This will be remembered.) This seems to be a Frameo sold by "Pexar - Lexar". The Frameo I bought at around $60 died immediately and was returned, so this Frameo in Pexar-Lexar wrapping its being returned also. I will not buy another Lexar product, not will I buy another Frameo product.

Calidad increíble, tiene muchas opciones para mostrar las fotos como gustes. Permite foto y video, Aplicación fácil de usar y compartir para que toda la familia suba fotos. Brillante, yo lo puse junto a la ventana. La calidad de imagen es increíble para cualquier recuerdo y video. Marca la hora y clima, si dejas la opción activada. puedes reaccionar a fotos de familiares, y se suben muy rápido de forma gratuita, suficiente almacenamiento interno para cientos de fotos y varios videos, y muchas opciones de almacenamiento extra.

Très bonne qualité d'image et de logiciel

Infelizmente el software Frameo no es confiable, pues incluso con fotografías de formatos compatibles JPG, PNG, etc. El marco no reconoce y no baja las fotografías. Se hace mucho esfuerzo para seleccionar las imágenes y el software no las reconoce. Las soluciones ofrecidas en la página de soporte, no resuelven el problema

As a photographer, I’m pretty picky about displays, and this one actually impressed me. The image quality is solid, colors look natural, and the matte screen helps cut down on glare. The touchscreen is responsive, no weird lag or anything. Overall, just a really nice way to show off photos. Definitely grabbing one for myself. Also she loved it and that made it all worth it

It stopped working after five months, but it was fine before that. After one of its weekly updates, it got stuck in loading. I chatted with support and got the device replaced. The pictures look great and it’s easy to set up.