Nixplay Seed Wave

£180/$280 www.nixplay.co.uk

While it comes with a relatively high price tag, the Nixplay Seed Wave is also one of the most comprehensively specified when it comes to digital photo frames. Not only is the screen size decent at 13.3-inches, there are also built-in 5-watt Bluetooth speakers for streaming music, a motion sensor (that turns the display on or off when you enter or leave a room, with an active range of 2.5 metres), and a relatively generous 10GB of on-board storage. Bringing things bang up to date, a Nixplay app for IOS or Android gives users control of the frame via a phone or tablet, and the ability to pull images from Google Photos, Dropbox, Flickr, Facebook and Instagram. We also found that, once the frame had been set up, it was easy to keep it up to date with all the pictures that we wanted. The core features of the frame itself include a 16:9 aspect ratio display to match your widescreen telly at 1920x1080 Full HD resolution, which looks stunning, though doesn’t match the native 3:2 ratio of Nikon cameras. On the downside, video playback is limited to 15 seconds per video and there are no card slots to be found on this digital frame – although Nixplay suggests the latter is actually a good thing.

PROS Decent-sized frame; good quality screen; Bluetooth speakers can stream music CONS No built-in SD card slot; video playback limited to only 15 seconds