Out of the box I was a little frustrated. The initial setup requires the frame connect to the internet to download firmware and for you to register it with a free account on nixplay.com. I had the frame shipped to my office, since that is where I plan on using it. I intended on connecting it via our office guest wireless. Our guest wireless requires users sign in via web page, a feature not currently supported. I was able to fortunately create a hotspot on my phone and connect the frame to the hotspot on my phone and complete the initial setup.

I love that it can connect to other sources like Dropbox, and Facebook to access photos. This is done thru the web interface on nixplay.com. The photos you select are added to an album and you assign them to your frame's play lists. One thing I learned quickly, is to save your local album often. I switched from Facebook to Dropbox without saving and had to go back and re-add my Facebook photos again. Another surprise, for the better from a security perspective, but a little annoying from a convenience perspective is that I had to sign back in to Facebook later when I went to add more photos.

Overall though the interface is really easy to use. I love the drag and drop capability for adding photos. I don't see an option to upload photos from the computer that you are on though, and I would think this should be a basic feature.

I also read in the description that you can upload photos from the iPhone & Android App. Really all the app does is create a contact list of Nixplay user addresses, it then uses the e-mail functionality of your phone. So you have to make sure the e-mail address you use on your phone is already configured as a recipient on your nixplay account. Really I was hoping the app would be more of a BlueTooth interface between the phone and the picture frame, or that it would sign in directly to the nixplay.com account configured for the picture frame.

The picture quality is nice and bright, and the frame is easy to configure from the cloud interface.

I think their could be some improvements in the initial setup. If I could have gotten the mac address of the wireless on the frame I could have whitelisted it on the office guest wireless network and skipped the whole need to sign in via web which isn't supported by the frame. I think there are also probably a few more features they could improve on when it comes to managing your pictures.

All said, I do like, it's a nice frame and it does what I want it to.