A classic 10.1-inch Frameo frame from a maker better known for tablets, built as a present for mum, grandma or a partner: photos arrive from the family's phones, and her slideshow can play with music behind it.
Dragon Touch pitches its 10.1-inch Frameo frame squarely as a present for the woman in the family: a mother, a wife, a sister or a grandmother. The idea is simple and sweet. She unwraps it, plugs it in, and the photos keep arriving for years without her lifting a finger.
That last part is what makes a Frameo frame a good gift for someone who does not enjoy gadgets. She never needs to open an app. Her children and grandchildren send pictures from their own phones, and each one appears on her side table a moment later.
The best way to give it is already loaded:
There are no email addresses to share and no social accounts to join. Only people she, or whoever set it up, has invited can send anything, which keeps strangers and spam off her screen.
The full screen-by-screen routine is in setting up a Frameo frame, and relatives can learn to send in a few app steps.
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Screen size | 10.1 inches |
| Panel | HD touch screen, wide viewing angles |
| Resolution | 1280x800 |
| Aspect ratio | 16:10 |
| Built-in storage | 16GB |
| Memory card | microSD, up to 32GB |
| Photo app | Frameo for iOS and Android, over Wi-Fi |
| App videos | Short clips, up to 15 seconds |
| Rotation | Built-in auto-rotate sensor |
| Slideshow | Adjustable speed, background music, display modes |
| Sharing | Several family members can send remotely |
| Colour | Black |
| Size | 10.53 x 7.33 in |
| Power | Mains adapter |
| Warranty | Two-year manufacturer warranty |
Where many Frameo frames stop at brightness and sleep settings, Dragon Touch draws attention to the slideshow itself. She can change how fast the photos move on, pick a display mode, and set background music to play while the pictures cycle, a small touch that turns an afternoon of browsing into something closer to an album evening.
The things she can change from the touch screen:
Dragon Touch uses a 1280x800 HD touch panel, the standard resolution for a 10.1-inch Frameo frame. It shows phone photos crisply at the distance people usually sit from a side table or kitchen shelf, and wide viewing angles keep colours steady when she walks past.
Short videos arrive too. Clips sent through the Frameo app are limited to 15 seconds, which suits a grandchild's wave or a birthday candle moment. For longer home movies, a microSD card is the way in.
Tapping a photo pauses it, and a swipe moves on. Those two gestures cover most of what she will ever do with it, which is exactly the point for a first frame.
Photos can also be hidden or removed from the frame itself, so an unflattering shot never has to stay. The steps are in deleting pictures from a Frameo frame.
The Dragon Touch frame carries 16GB of built-in memory, half of what most 10.1-inch Frameo frames now ship with. For a frame that mostly receives phone photos, 16GB still holds several thousand pictures, since a typical phone photo lands somewhere between 2MB and 5MB, and the exact count depends on the camera.
Where the smaller memory shows is video. Clips take far more room than stills, so a family that sends lots of short videos will fill 16GB sooner. A microSD card, 32GB at most, adds room and gives a way to load longer clips without the app's 15-second limit.
A few habits keep a 16GB frame comfortable for years:
The frame also keeps working when the Wi-Fi drops. Photos already received are stored on the frame, so the slideshow carries on through a router restart or a broadband fault, and new pictures arrive once the connection returns.
Dragon Touch backs the frame with a two-year manufacturer warranty. That is longer than the one-year cover many Frameo frames come with, and it applies to the part most likely to matter, the screen.
Dragon Touch also makes a 10.1-inch frame that runs its own VPhoto app instead of Frameo. The two look alike, so the choice is really about the app: Frameo is shared by every Frameo frame from every maker, so relatives who already send to another frame use the same app, while VPhoto is Dragon Touch's own.
For most families the Frameo version is the easier gift, since one app can send to several frames across the family. The VPhoto model makes sense when the household already uses that app.
| Frame | App | Memory | Worth noting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon Touch Frameo | Frameo | 16GB | Slideshow music, two-year warranty |
| Dragon Touch VPhoto | VPhoto | 16GB | Reads SD cards and USB drives |
| MaxAngel 10.1 | Frameo | 32GB | Calendar sync, six-photo collage |
| Jaokpo 10.1 | Frameo | 16GB | Calendar sync, two-year warranty |
MaxAngel's frame is the one to choose if she keeps a busy diary, since it syncs a calendar beside the photos, and 32GB gives video more room. Jaokpo matches the two-year warranty and adds a calendar at the same 16GB.
A quick way to settle it:
All four stand on a shelf at the same 10.1-inch size and share the 1280x800 screen resolution, so none looks sharper than the others from the sofa.
For every 10.1-inch Frameo frame side by side, see the 10.1-inch Frameo frames.
16GB built in, with a microSD slot for cards up to 32GB. That holds several thousand phone photos, fewer if many videos are sent.
Yes. Dragon Touch lists background music among the slideshow settings, along with adjustable speed and display modes.
This model uses the free Frameo app for iOS and Android. Dragon Touch sells a separate 10.1-inch frame that runs its VPhoto app instead.
A two-year manufacturer warranty from Dragon Touch.