Believe it or not, I've bought the product that we are about to unbox and
review three times in the past month it's because I think that this thing
that we are about to talk about might be the best gift of 2020 and quite possibly
of all time hi guys my name is Tom and welcome to the channel here we like to
talk about all things tech consumer tech things I use on a daily basis today
we're gonna be talking about the skylight picture frame not digital
picture frames have been super popular over the course of the past five to ten
years but what makes this one very different is you can send the photos
from your phone or computer directly via Wi-Fi to this picture frame what we're
all trying to get our bearings in this very very odd time little gifts of tech
like this where I'm able to keep in touch with my parents my wife's parents
our friends our family just by sending them pictures it kind of normalizes a
somewhat strange situation so let's open this guy up and I'll show you what's
inside and how to set it up the one thing about this digital picture frame
that I like as a younger person who kind of understands tech is you can send this
directly to yourself set the entire thing up for your friend or family
member and then ship it out to them so they're not dealing with SD cards and
setting up an email address and things like that so it's it's nice for people
that don't understand this side of tech but here we are so the
first thing we see is paperwork that is actually important and what it tells us
is we have to go to our skylight comm slash activate and there I'll give us a
6-pin to put on the frame we also have a Quick Start Guide information on
skylight plus which we'll talk about in a little bit we'll get back to this
activation very very soon but first we're gonna set up the frame not a lot
of bells and whistles we have a 10 inch picture frame we have a power adapter we
also have a USB to power plug as well as this little white kickstand right here
as the frame boots up I'll just show you a little bit of what this has to offer
on the side of the frame you can see that this is the power plug there's also
a micro USB or a USB and 1/8 inch audio jack back of
the frame has a power button a navigation station and a menu button it
also gives you a place to hang the frame on a wall and this hole down there is
actually for our foot all we do is twist that in and then you're able to prop
your frame up on a shelf or otherwise well we're not gonna use that right now
and here we are so the first thing we're going to see is our Wi-Fi and we're
gonna go directly to my Wi-Fi which is pretty fly for our Wi-Fi not original I
know alright so right here we have to get our activation code so we're gonna
go over to the computer and I'll walk you guys through that process so the
first thing we're gonna do is go to our skylight comm slash activate and right
on the front page it asks you what product you have rehabbed the skylight
frame so the skylight frame email is the email that we're going to create that
people are going to email their photos to this frame wait once it is set up in
their house so this is the setup part that I was just talking about so what
I've done right here is created an email for the person that is getting this
frame so it's obviously tied to their name and here we go we just got on the
screen an activation code and all we have to do is type it in and here it
goes it says that it's linked to the email that we just created on my
computer so what we just did there was set our picture frame settings to
private that way I have to physically approve all the people that would get
that email to be able to send photos to this device so I can invite myself I
then show up on an approval list the people you invite would then get an
email saying that they're invited to share pictures on this digital picture
frame registered to that person and there it provides you with the email
that's registered and you can just start sending photos to it so let's send one
and we can watch it come through the internet and show up on the frame itself
all I'm gonna do is drag and drop a bunch of pictures of my family and this
should take less than a minute and now we just wait as that's sending from my
computer through the internet back into this picture frame I will say
that this picture frame is available on the skylight frame comm website for 159
dollars there's also a payment plan and that's one we'll talk about the skylight
plus with Scylla plus were able to include captions and videos the same way
that you would be sending these photos that I just showed you directly to the
frame you could do it with video and audio and it's a nice feature but it
will cost you another $39 a year with that $39 it also gives you access to a
mobile app as well as a couple other features I'll make sure to throw a link
in the description below for you guys to check out everything that skylake has to
offer so here we go the pictures just came to the frame and as they show up
it'll say tap to see new photos and they will cycle through my mother-in-law
she's the one that's actually getting this one I also bought one for my own
mother they're gonna love this because it's it's one of those things that you
can send them and it's an effortless gift to really kind of share in the
weird time that we're currently all in social distancing but yeah when you tap
to see new photos it'll show you all these you can also swipe and go back
through your photos so the touchscreen isn't bad on on this at all and then you
can also heart photos as the recipient and you can mark that as you've seen
them but every time that you like a photo the person that sent you that
photo will get notified that you saw and liked that photo so just a quick little
aside if you forget to edit your photos or you're the recipient of one of these
frames and you want to edit a photo you'll always have the option to rotate
the photo directly on the screen in the top right corner and once you do that
obviously you can go back you can also delete a photo and one of the nice
things about this is like I mentioned if you do send vertical pictures and you
want to resize them to better fit here we'll use this one for an example to
better fit the frame you can go ahead and resize them right there so at the
point where they do go back and forth the photo will show up as a full-screen
image so yeah just a little aside so hopefully this video helps show how
easy and effortless it is to set up the skylight digital picture frame like I
mentioned before links are always in the description down below if you haven't
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