Aura Carver review: This landscape-only photo frame automatically pairs portrait images

A smart, elegant digital photo frame that you can set up and enjoy within minutes, the Aura Carver makes for an easy and handsome way to show off your snapshots, provided you have a steady Wi-Fi connection and you're comfortable with cloud storage. This sturdy, $200 photo frame comes with a bright, vivid screen; a landscape-only design; and an AI-powered photo-pairing feature for displaying portrait photos side-by-side. But the lack of user-accessible local storage means that photos must be stored in Aura's cloud servers, a requirement that raises privacy concerns (cloud storage is free and unlimited, at least), while the frame's support for voice assistants is perfunctory at best. Like Aura's other frames, the $299 SawyerRemove non-product link and the $399 SmithRemove non-product link, the Carver isn't wall-mountable; instead, it's designed specifically to sit on a table, a shelf, or another flat surface. Unlike Aura's other two frames, the Carver has a landscape-only orientation, while the Sawyer and Smith frames has a swiveling stand that allows you to switch from landscape to portrait modes.