Amazon just dropped its first-ever digital picture frame, right in time for the holiday gifting rush, along with a whole batch of new Echo-based gadgets. We got a peek at the Alexa Photo Frame at a launch event in New York, and it has a few neat tricks and design touches you won’t find on most frames.

The big standout is that the frame syncs automatically with Amazon Photos and picks out the “best” shots for you, so you’re not stuck watching all 300 photos from your upstate leaf-peeping trip on repeat. We love the idea, but we haven’t tested it yet, so we can’t say how well it curates.

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The first smart frame with Alexa built in

Alexa prompts fetch the exact photos or photo types you want to see.

Amazon’s frame, which comes with unlimited storage for Prime members, is the first with Alexa built in, so you can ask to see photos of certain people, places or events.

“Alexa, nobody believes me that I met Dolly Parton at Costco; please bring up…