TOKYO, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SwitchBot, a leading provider of AI-enabled embodied home robotics systems, today announced the launch of SwitchBot AI Art Frame 2, a full-color E Ink art frame designed to make digital art feel at home in real living spaces. Featuring a full-frame presentation, a paper-like non-glowing display, flexible wireless placement, and AI creative tools, it turns artwork, photographs, memories, and ideas into an evolving part of the home.
Available in 7.1-inch, 13.3-inch, and 31.5-inch sizes, AI Art Frame 2 can move from desks and bedside tables to entryways and statement walls. It includes 500 curated masterpieces and allows users to upload personal content, schedule artwork changes, share memories remotely, and create original pieces through SwitchBot AI Studio.
Framed Art, Not Another Screen
AI Art Frame 2 removes the traditional white mat from the display area, allowing artwork to extend to the edge of the physical frame for a more immersive presentation. Its full-color E Ink Spectra 6 display uses ambient light instead of a constantly illuminated backlight, creating a non-glowing, paper-like appearance without the visual presence of a conventional screen.
A walnut-color wood-grain finish, stepped bevel profile, and clean mitered corners complete the decorative frame aesthetic. Rather than appearing as another bright display in the room, AI Art Frame 2 is designed to blend naturally into the interior and let the artwork take focus.
Art That Changes With Life
AI Art Frame 2 includes 500 curated masterpieces, allowing users to refresh a room for a new mood, season, or occasion without buying, reframing, or rehanging physical art. Personal photographs and original work can also be batch-uploaded through the SwitchBot App, bringing family memories, travel moments, and creative projects out of the phone and into everyday view.
Artwork can be changed through the app, using the rear button, or by tapping the frame three times. Slideshow and schedule modes automate updates, while supported Alexa commands, the SwitchBot API, and Home Assistant offer additional ways to manage the display. A supplied 16GB microSD card stores approximately 5,000 images locally, with actual capacity varying by file format, resolution, and size.
Made for Every Space
A built-in rechargeable battery and power-efficient E Ink display allow AI Art Frame 2 to operate for up to three years per charge when refreshed once daily, helping keep walls and surfaces free from visible power cables*. Wi-Fi connectivity also allows images to be sent to the frame from a distance.
The 7.1-inch model can stand on a desk, shelf, or bedside table or be mounted on a wall. The 13.3-inch model works across entryways, sideboards, bedrooms, and smaller wall arrangements, while the wall-mounted 31.5-inch model creates a larger centerpiece for living rooms and main walls. A built-in accelerometer automatically recognizes portrait or landscape orientation.
A Gift for Every Occasion
Gift Mode makes AI Art Frame 2 personal before the box is even opened. Gift-givers can scan the QR code on the packaging, select photographs or artwork, and add a personal message for the recipient to reveal after setup.
Once the frame is in use, new images can continue to be shared remotely, allowing the gift to grow with holidays, trips, milestones, and everyday life. This makes AI Art Frame 2 suitable for housewarmings, weddings, anniversaries, family celebrations, and other meaningful occasions.
Turn What Matters Into Art
Through SwitchBot AI Studio, AI Art Remix can transform a favorite photograph or a child's drawing into styles such as an oil painting or sketch, while AI Art Prompt lets users add new settings, details, or atmosphere through text*.
Users can also long-press the frame's function button and describe a scene, color palette, mood, or artistic style aloud to generate an original work from their own words. Weather Muse uses local weather as creative input, producing artwork inspired by sunny, rainy, cloudy, or seasonal conditions.
Together, these tools turn personal memories, passing ideas, and the world outside into art made for the home.
Pricing and Availability
SwitchBot AI Art Frame 2 will be available beginning October 27, 2026, through SwitchBot's official website and Amazon stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
- 7.1-inch: USD 169.99 / CAD 219.99 / GBP 179.99 / EUR 199.99
- 13.3-inch: USD 399.99 / CAD 449.99 / GBP 409.99 / EUR 429.99
- 31.5-inch: USD 1,399.99 / CAD 1,799.99 / GBP 1,599.99 / EUR 1,599.99
For more information, please visit SwitchBot's official website and follow SwitchBot on X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
*SwitchBot AI Studio is a paid software service and includes a 30-day free trial for first-time subscribers. Feature availability, supported languages, generation limits, and regional availability may vary. Battery life is based on one image refresh per day and varies by model, network conditions, usage, and environment.
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SwitchBot Launches AI Art Frame 2 with Full-Color E Ink and Personalized Art
SHENZHEN, China, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the global launch of the vivo X500 Series, Kolder Creative has released a smartphone filmmaking masterclass featuring the X500 Pro Max. The ten-video course builds on vivo's creative partnership with filmmaker Sam Kolder and follows the creation of a single vertical Reel from filming to final export. Through demonstrations of the X500 Pro Max's imaging capabilities and insights into Kolder's creative decisions, the masterclass aims to help more creators use smartphones for cinematic storytelling.
Putting Creative Possibility into Practice
Co-engineered with ZEISS, the newly launched vivo X500 Series combines an advanced ZEISS Telephoto Lens System with cinematic video capabilities, giving creators the flexibility to capture different perspectives and shape their visual stories. In the masterclass, Kolder uses the X500 Pro Max to demonstrate how camera settings, framing, and editing choices contribute to a finished film.
The collaboration reflects vivo's user-oriented approach to innovation and its mission to create value through technology. Through practical filmmaking education, vivo helps creators learn to use its imaging tools and develop their own approach to visual storytelling.
"We believe smartphones should be a first choice for creative expression, not a second-best option for professional filmmaking. Together with Sam Kolder, we want to challenge that perception and give more creators the freedom to tell their stories," said Yu Meng, Vice President and Head of Imaging at vivo. "By combining the imaging capabilities of the vivo X500 Series with practical filmmaking education through Kolder Creative, we aim to help creators focus less on the complexity of their equipment and more on the people and moments they want to capture."
A Filmmaker's Perspective, Shared Step by Step
Known for cinematic travel and adventure films defined by distinctive transitions and immersive storytelling, Sam Kolder shares the techniques and thinking behind his work through Kolder Creative. The platform offers learners a closer look at his filmmaking process, connecting technical instruction with practical creative experience.
The masterclass extends Kolder's collaboration with vivo following "The Garden Route", a cinematic short film shot entirely on vivo X300 Ultra. Through practical instruction, he shares the creative decisions behind his filmmaking, helping aspiring creators understand how individual shots come together to tell a cohesive story.
Across one introductory video and nine lessons, Kolder guides learners through creating a vertical Reel, a short-form social media video. The course covers native camera controls, composition, footage selection, editing, sound design, color grading, and export. Each stage builds on the same project, showing how individual techniques contribute to the finished film.
"The technology has finally caught up in the world of film. A phone now does what used to take a bag of gear," said Sam Kolder. "This course is an inside look at how I turn mobile footage into a cinematic film, start to finish, so people can see every decision along the way."
Building a Reel with Intention
Using vivo's native camera app, Kolder explains how technical choices support the story he wants to tell. He demonstrates Log recording for greater flexibility in color grading, shows how frame rate and shutter settings affect the appearance of movement, and explains how neutral-density (ND) filters help control exposure. Practical comparisons show the effect of each choice and when creators might use it.
Kolder also explores the composition within the vertical 9:16 frame. Using examples from the project, he shows how close-ups, medium shots, and wider views add variety and form complete sequences. He starts with a broad story direction while remaining open to unexpected moments during filming and new possibilities during editing.
In DaVinci Resolve, a video-editing and color-grading application, learners see how he organizes and selects footage and builds a narrative around voiceover and music. Matching movement between shots creates fluid connections, while sound design adds atmosphere and presence. Color grading follows an approachable workflow using look-up tables (LUTs) and adjustment nodes that allow shots to be refined.
To support hands-on learning, the course includes the Reel's final soundtrack and offers a 50% discount to Filmkid LUTs, which Kolder uses in his grading demonstrations, and a 50% discount to LUTs by Bryn North, a fellow filmmaker and Kolder collaborator. Together with guidance on exporting vertical social video, the masterclass gives learners a complete workflow in which they can apply to their own stories.
Cinematic Tools Built Around the Creative Process
vivo X500 Pro Max brings together imaging capabilities that support the creative principles explored throughout the masterclass. Its 200 MP ZEISS APO Telephoto Camera gives creators tighter framing options, complementing the course's emphasis on capturing varied shot sizes and building complete sequences from different perspectives.
For creators working with color in post-production, Cinematic Pro Log Video on the ZEISS TrueDynamic Main Camera provides a flexible foundation. A dedicated Log curve, specifically tuned to the camera's 17 EV ultra-high dynamic range, preserves rich highlight and shadow detail and subtle tonal gradation, giving creators greater scope to shape the final image through the LUT-and-node workflow demonstrated in the course. DaVinci Resolve natively supports vivo Log and vivo Wide Gamut, enabling a more seamless integration into professional color-grading workflows and refine color, contrast, and tonal expression in post-production.
Multi-Focal 4K 120 fps recording and the main camera's native 4K 240 fps recording expand the possibilities for capturing movement and creating slow-motion footage. A 7800 mAh BlueVolt Battery and 90W FlashCharge support the demands of filming on location, helping creators stay ready as scenes unfold and conditions change.
Through the masterclass, vivo and Kolder Creative show how a smartphone can serve as the primary camera for a complete filmmaking project. By explaining the technical process and creative decisions behind a finished Reel, the collaboration helps learners approach their own projects with greater intention and confidence.
The ten-video vivo x Kolder Creative smartphone filmmaking masterclass is available from November 9, 2026 via https://www.koldercreative.com/.
About vivo
vivo is a technology company that creates great products based on a user-oriented value, with smart devices and intelligent services as its core. The company aims to build a bridge between humans and the digital world. Through unique creativity, vivo provides users with an increasingly convenient mobile and digital life. Following the company's core values, which include Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven value, continuous learning and team spirit, vivo has implemented a sustainable development strategy with the vision of developing into a healthier, more sustainable world-class corporation.
While bringing together and developing the best local talents to deliver excellence, vivo is supported by a network of R&D centers in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi'an and more cities, focusing on the development of state-of-the-art consumer technologies, including 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and other up-and-coming technologies. vivo has also set up an intelligent manufacturing network (including those authorized by vivo), with an annual production capacity of nearly 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its sales network across more than 60 countries and regions, and is loved by nearly 600 million users worldwide.
*"Benfen" is a term describing the attitude on doing the right things and doing things right – which is the ideal description of vivo's mission to create value for society.
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vivo x Kolder Creative: New Smartphone Filmmaking Masterclass Featuring vivo X500 Pro Max
vivo x Kolder Creative: New Smartphone Filmmaking Masterclass Featuring vivo X500 Pro Max
vivo x Kolder Creative: New Smartphone Filmmaking Masterclass Featuring vivo X500 Pro Max
vivo x Kolder Creative: New Smartphone Filmmaking Masterclass Featuring vivo X500 Pro Max
