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Binary Eric said:
So far, this frame seems to be a piece of junk. It is DEFINITELY not OS X (Mac) friendly either.
1. The software says that it supports WEP / WPA encryption – but refuses to connect unless all encryption is turned off.
2. The connection won’t stay alive for more than 10 seconds before dying.
3. Initially it was connected for a few minutes, and after pasting in the first RSS feed to test – it locked up the frame.
I am about to give up & try to return it.
Rating: 1 / 5
# 31 January 2010 at 5:25 am

Matt Anfang said:
Needs a firmware update. It does freeze every now and then, but I think it was due to the my internet connection. Great Quality Frame. Samsung customer service sucks so good luck with that. All they do is look at the internet, which you can do yourself. I’d get this frame just for FrameChannel, but there are other ones out there as well.
Rating: 4 / 5
# 31 January 2010 at 7:02 am

Ali G. Chaudhary said:
Love the looks. This photo frame matches Samsung’s quality in LCDs. I thought the WiFi setup with my desktop will be cumbersome. But it turned out that setting up sharing was a breeze!
The resolution is fine, I won’t say its the greatest though. But out of fairness, this is the highest resolution you can get in this size photo frames.
Support for video file types is limited. I’m still trying to play MPEG movies but have failed so far.
64MB of internal memory is peanuts. However, you can expand the memory by adding CF card, etc.
Overall, a great buy that comes with quality.
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UPDATE: April 13 2009
Just bought a Mac. Unfortunately I have failed to hook up this unit to my Apple over WiFi network. I’m using EyeConnect for the WiFi linking. My rating goes down from 4 to 2 stars.
Rating: 4 / 5
# 31 January 2010 at 7:33 am

Paul Hildebrandt said:
I just purchased the Samsung SPF-83V 8-Inch Wireless Digital Photo Frame for my parents.

Pros:

* Samsung makes a good looking LCD. The 800×600 looks good on an 8inch LCD.

* Auto on/off times

* Has a bunch of features like sound which I don’t care about now but might later.

* No monthly fee for service.

* Worked easily with a WAP protected router.

Cons:

* The frame border is a little glossy for my taste.

* The right/left navigation buttons are backwards but they are only used in setup.

* Don’t expect your parents to be able to set it up. It wasn’t intuitive and I actually know computers.
I decided to go with a third party RSS feed provider, Frame Channel.

They specialize in providing feeds to internet picture frames.

Pros:

* Easy to work with web interface

* Auto resizes picture you upload

* Has a email address attached to the account so you can send email with a picture attached and it will show it.

* The email have to come from approve sources. (I was worried about porn spam, that would have been awkward.)

* The have lots of channels like weather, sports, bible quotes, trivia and so on.

Cons:

* Their channels have a small ad strip on them. It’s not hideous but well close.
They’ve only had it for a few weeks but they are VERY happy with it. We were out on the lake on their boat and I snapped a shot of my boys with the iPhone and mailed it to the picture frames address. When we got back to their house an hour later we saw the picture on the frame. It actually look pretty good for a camera phone photo.
Rating: 5 / 5
# 31 January 2010 at 7:34 am

A. Hustvedt said:
This photo frame isn’t perfect, but if you are looking for something to display photos from your Flickr feed, or any other RSS photo stream, even at a less than technically capable relative’s house, then this is a very viable option.
It definitely takes some technical know-how to set up, but once it is set up it doesn’t need any more interaction. The setup screens on the frame are slightly confusing even for me, and I could write the software on the frame. Specifically, after setting up the wireless network, it searches for a Windows computer to grab photos from, and if that fails the error reads like a Windows computer on the network sharing photos is required. However, just pressing “continue” allows the web server to be started.
The web interface to the frame is kind of useful. It is where you add in RSS feeds, and along with seeing what is currently on the frame is about all you can do from the web interface. That means that you can’t do much to the frame remotely.
The screen has a very good angle of view, and is decently bright. The case is a bit tight on the screen, so that pushing on the buttons causes the surface of the LCD to distort, which could be an issue if the buttons are frequently pressed.
The slideshow configuration is a bit limited, with the possible intervals being 5,10 and 20 seconds, which is way too fast for my taste. I would like to see 5 minutes. The transition between pictures is configurable, but I have left that on random.
I am using this (only) to display pictures from my Flickr feed for my parents, so the rest of the review is in that light. I don’t plan to use the frame with a memory card or reading pictures from a Windows computer, so those features are irrelevant to me.
It only shows 20 pictures from a RSS feed, and while it does cache the images on 32MB of the internal flash, it doesn’t save them, so it only ever shows the most recent 20 pictures.
When doing a slideshow from the RSS feed it only shows the pictures, there are no “loading…”, ads, or any other text on the display, which I consider to be a good thing. It does show the title for the picture if you are browsing through the list, but it doesn’t show that in the slideshow, nor can you configure that.
Rating: 4 / 5
# 31 January 2010 at 9:06 am

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