Brookstone10.1” WiFi Digital Photo Frame | Send Photo or Video from Phone to Digital Picture Frame with Free PhotoShare Frame v2 app | End-to-End Encryption | Quick Easy Setup | Black Wood

This digital picture frame is absolutely awesome. I plan on buying a few more, without a doubt.Quick Note: A traditional manual is not included. However, if you follow the quick start guide, once the frame is up and running there is a digital manual of sorts included on the device itself. I think that is actually a better option than a paper manual will lose. Just my opinion.Setup was dirt simple. Plug it in, select time zone, connect to WIFI, and it presents you with the frame ID.Install the Photoshare app (there are other options such as Google photos and social linking as well), create an account quickly, and enter the frame ID.At this point, you are ready to send some pictures to it! When you attempt to access your pictures on your smartphone or tablet, you will of course have to grant permissions per the usual. None of the permissions it asked for were suspicious at all, so trustworthy I would say.From here, you just scroll through all your pictures or videos, select the ones you want, and hit send to frame.The frame will beep for each file it receives, and the slideshow begins!It really is that simple.The photo quality is AMAZING, especially when the source files are taken with the high-quality cameras in the newer smartphones.There are some additional advanced features from there, and they are quite simple as well, but I think if you are after those features, you will already know the gist of how they work. Google Photo Albums, Facebook photo slide shows, etc.The frame appears to be based on Android, at least that is my assumption after seeing the file selection menu that you can enter if you try to add files from a flash drive or SD card. This is pretty cool in my opinion.One really cool aspect of these, is you can gift one to a family member, and then update the pictures on their frame! For me, this is a killer feature. It makes it tremendously easy to send pictures and videos to the kids’ grandparents in a way that easy for them to see! Let’s face it, most grandparents are not great with tech, and the impact of sending pictures to their smart phone (if they even have one) is just not as awesome as with a dedicated picture frame like this.All in all, it is hard to go wrong with this thing. Never thought I would be excited about a product like this, but the simplicity and quality makes for a truly killer product.

Easier to use than expected

My husband bought me a similar product and I hated it. It wouldn’t connect to the internet and stay connected. This Brookstone product is vastly superior. Easy set up and transfer of photos. I will likely buy another one for my office.

Pros - Never thought I'd own one but figured it was the perfect way to scale down on storing boxes and boxes of photo albums that never get used. I also don't have to dust framed pictures around the house any more! Family and friends love seeing our revolving pictures. It gives them a quick glimpse of what's been going on in our lives without having to bombard them with tons of photos or videos that they really don't want to see anyway. It puts them in control of asking for details about a picture they're curious about. Sending pictures from my phone to the frame couldn't be easier! We love seeing the daily reminders of vacations, weddings, family, etc. It can give you a real boost or a good laugh when you need one most.Cons - Very little tech support. Don't expect an owner's manual or hard copy of instructions. You need to download the app and read the very minimal instructions there. The stand that the frame sits on is not the most stable and is difficult to attach. They fail to explain that detail. After the frame fell over multiple times I discovered a video online from a 'user' who shows you how to set it up. The most frustrating thing with this frame is they don't tell you how to delete a photo from the frame; instead they tell you how to delete the album. I don't want to delete the whole album and start over! Not sure what to do about that so I'd suggest be sure you really want to send a photo to the frame before hitting 'send'. Also there's no way to view a photo gallery on the app so I can see all my photos in one place like you can on your cell phone's camera roll. Sometimes I'd like to quickly check to see if I've sent a particular picture to the frame without waiting for all 500 pictures to cycle through. Perhaps there's a way to do this on the frame itself; haven't gotten that far yet. Lastly, the app shows a handful of photos sitting in a queue, asking me to select photos to send to the frame when they were already sent. Not sure why this only happened with a few photos or if deleting them from the queue will delete them from the frame.Overall, I love this frame and wish we'd bought one sooner.

I have bought many digital frames, this one is the very best. Easy to add pictures by using a app on your phone. It goes to sleep in the dark, I love this feature as I never turn it off. Great quality

I was looking for a frame for my mother and was about setting it up. It is straight forward, and they have video you can watch within the app if you run into a problem. Recommend!

The photo frame was exactly what we were looking for. There have been no issues

Easy to use. Have 4 of them in are family and makes it so easy to share photos.

Great size. Options to change the slideshow frequency. Pictures are nice and clear. Also plays videos.