Lenovo's Smart Frame puts your digital photos on a 21.9-inch canvas

Lenovo's Smart Frame puts your digital photos on a 21.9-inch canvas

Unlike some of the smaller digital photo frames, the Lenovo Smart Frame is quite large -- it has a 21.9-inch screen -- and is meant to be hung on a wall, like art in a gallery. In fact, when a few Engadget editors saw it for the first time in Lenovo's demo room, we genuinely thought it was a random piece of art set up on an easel. It wasn't until the image on the Smart Frame changed that we realized it was a digital frame.


That's partly thanks to the anti-glare coating on the Smart Frame; it gives it a matte finish that's more common with hung art than LCD screens. The Smart Frame has a 1,920 by 1,080 FHD resolution plus an 85-degree viewing angle, which certainly adds to its appeal. It also has an ambient light and color tone sensor, which adjusts the picture's brightness and overall temperature according to the surrounding environment. This, according to Lenovo, makes for a more natural viewing experience.


One way to control the photos is via hand gestures. There's a motion sensor at the front of the Smart Frame so that when you wave your hand from right to left, the picture changes. But the primary way to navigate photos on the Smart Frame is via a companion app. That's also where you would load your photos via your cloud service of choice (Lenovo hasn't announced yet which ones are compatible with it) and Lenovo's built-in AI can choose the highest-quality images to display on the Smart Frame.



A Lenovo spokesperson said that there'll be a collage feature that'll automatically add multiple images to a single frame. There's also a potential for a "look back" feature, to see photos that you took several years ..

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