Jaokpo 15.6-inch Frameo Frame

Imagine a couple moving into their first home a few hundred miles from both sets of parents. Unpacked on the first weekend, the frame joins their Wi-Fi, and within the hour it shows photos from both families: the old garden, the wedding, the dog they left with Mum.

Over the following months it becomes a quiet noticeboard for everyone who loves them:

• Parents send the view from their holidays, a reminder to call.
• Friends add the photos from the moving-day pizza, straight from their phones.
• The couple send their own to a second Frameo frame back at their parents' house, using the same app.
• Short clips, 15 seconds at most, arrive too, so a new baby's first wobbly steps play out in the kitchen.

Jaokpo fits a Full HD IPS panel, 1920 by 1080 pixels across 15.6 inches of 16:9 glass. The wider viewing angle of IPS means the photo still looks right from the far end of the sofa.

Measuring 15.86 by 9.92 inches, it wants a spot at least as wide as a standard sideboard top or a clear stretch of hallway wall.

The Frameo app also offers greetings: a photo sent with a themed card around it, for a birthday, an anniversary or a holiday. Jaokpo highlights both features for this frame, and they turn a slideshow into a way of keeping in touch.

Ways families use them:

1. A birthday morning. Each grandchild sends a greeting photo, and they appear one after another as the day starts.
2. A thank-you. A tap on the heart after a new photo is quicker than a phone call and still says a lot.
3. A shared album. Several relatives invited to the same frame means each one adds their own side of a family event.

On the frame itself, the touch screen handles everything else. Play order, zoom, brightness and a sleep schedule are all set from the settings menu, and a photo can be hidden if someone would rather not see it every day.

Auto-rotation turns a tall portrait upright when the frame is stood on its side with the detachable stand. For a hallway, the wall-mounting holes on the back take it up to eye level.

Jaokpo pitches the interface as simple enough for grandparents and children alike. With only the everyday gestures to learn, a tap to pause and a swipe to skip, that holds up well for a first frame.

More ideas for keeping photos flowing are in adding photos to a Frameo frame.

Jaokpo quotes room for more than 80,000 photos in the built-in 32GB. That figure assumes compact files. Full-size phone photos weigh a few megabytes each, so a realistic count is several thousand to around 16,000, depending on the camera and how many videos share the space.

Tips for the card and drive routes:

• Format as FAT32. The frame reads FAT32 most reliably, and cards of 32GB or less usually come that way.
• Keep folders small. Importing a few hundred photos at a time is easier to sort than one huge batch.
• Use cards for longer video. The app limit of 15 seconds does not apply to clips copied from a card or drive.
• Back up before resets. Copy photos out to a card before any factory reset.

No fee applies to sending or receiving through Frameo. Frameo+ is an optional subscription with extras like cloud backup, which some families add for a frame holding irreplaceable photos.

The micro SD card guide explains formats and sizes in more detail.

Against other 15.6-inch Frameo frames, the Jaokpo trades extras for a clean look and longer cover.

How to choose between them:

• Jaokpo 15.6 for a plain, modern frame with a card and a USB port and two years of cover.
• YunQiDeer 15.6 if a calendar beside the photos matters.
• BIGASUO 15.6 for families who send lots of video and need 64GB.

Whichever way the family goes, every one of these frames runs the same Frameo app. A relative who already sends to one frame just adds the next, so a Jaokpo at the parents' house and a YunQiDeer at the grandparents' can receive the same holiday photo in one send.

For every size side by side, see Frameo frame sizes, and for whether Frameo suits the family at all, is Frameo a good digital frame.