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| Product Description The Samsung SPF-85H 8-Inch digital photo frame provides stunning 800×600 high resolution images with an elegant glossy black bezel. The photo frame features Samsung exclusive features like UbiSync technology that allows you to use your photo frame as a USB mini-PC monitor, so you can run your Instant Messanger, media player, or a mini-web browser in the frame and Starlight Touch Button Control for easy menu navigation through innovative touch sensitive light up buttons. The SPF-85H also includes 1GB of internal memory, an energy saving auto on/off feature, and support for common memory cards including SD, MMC, MS, XD, and USB memory stick. It makes a great affordable gift for holidays, anniversaries, or any other special occasion. Your digital photos set free. With the Samsung SPF-85H digital photo frame, its not hard to imagine. |
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Samsung SPF-85H 8-Inch Digital Photo Frame UbiSync USB Mini-PC Monitor w/1GB Internal Memory (Black)
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#1 by William Dietsch on August 1st, 2009 - 12:19 am
The unit works great if you are using a PC. Easy to use, and really fun. When I used my apple G4 to load pictures and mp3 files, they come over to the unit along with annoying unrecognized files with a size of 80K with the same file name. For each group of pictures or mp3s you get a whole bunch of question marks on the frame file viewer. I called tech support and they had no idea what was going on. Essentially they told me that their product was not fully tested with apple products. As I use a PC as well this does not present a great problem to me, just an inconvenience. If you only use an apple, you should be aware of this difficulty.
#2 by bungee on August 13th, 2009 - 7:51 am
I purchased the SPF-105V (wireless) photo frame as a gift to my parents, so that they can see the latest photos of their grandchildren posted on Flickr easily from their living room.
I’m an IT professional but the lack of a proper detailed manual, poor firmware (ver.1002) and odd behavior of this frame made setting up a RSS feed on it much harder than it had to be. Along the way, I also discovered quite a few limitations.
Here are some of the things to look out for when setting up this frame for wireless photo feeds:
· It will not display progressive JPG photos (not mentioned anywhere and took me a while to figure out).
· Deleting a RSS feed will not remove the photos that’s stored on the 64MB internal memory (only 32MB allocated to RSS feeds). You’d need to physically connect the frame to your PC’s USB port to do this.
· It will not store and display older photos from RSS. For instance, Flickr RSS feeds only show the 20 latest photos in your selected stream (filter by tags or sets possible). Your older photos will likewise drop off from the Samsung frame.
· Will only display the 1st photo of a RSS feed post. e.g. If you point the frame to a blog post and there’s more than 1 photo per blog entry, only the 1st photo will be retrieved by the frame.
Other things that could be improved upon (with better firmware?)
· Allow you to access the SD/Memory cards as external drives when plugging the frame into your PC’s USB port.
· Allow for longer slide show interviews. Photos switch too quickly, even at slowest setting.
· Allow the RSS to save to SD/CF and not be restricted to the tiny 32MB on board storage.
· Allow for option of a less obtrusive clock/calendar display
· Allow for an increase in the frequency of updates from RSS and/or allow for manual refresh.
· Better RSS compatibility.
Overall, it’s an average photo frame. It display photos will a slight wash-out color tone, like they were taken under harsh lighting. My older Philips (non-wireless) digital frame had much warmer colors.
The wireless functionality definitely needs work, hopefully to be addressed by future firmware updates. BTW, my firmware ver 1002 didn’t come with a Frame Channel activation code.