Gadgetory

so today we've got a couple of new photo frames from Samsung they're not just photo frames they do have LCDs inside them we have the SPF 105 P and the SDF 7 1e and it occurred to me when we were talking about topics for a video that it's going to be pretty hard for people to come up with searching for these terms and I thought you know I can't even figure out what these names mean and then it occurred to me SPF is not sun protection factor it's not even 1 s if you have exams for I don't actually know what SPF stands for but either way we're going to let blocks these LCDs and show you some of the neat features so we're going to start with the 7 inch model let's open this baby up oh yeah creating open box inventory and I'm having a fair amount of difficulty with the sticker there we go relive your best moments is like a marketing message right on the inside here reads it's got a little blue ball isn't that sweet so then we take this off and you've got your instruction manual which is in both English and French Thank You kbecque and then we've got some warranty stuff and right inside you will find that the 7 inch digital photo frame now just move that aside for now next inside you've got the oh wow this is complicated okay you've got a power cable you've got a stand which I will move cuz right now all you can really see as me managing in the box we've got a little stand that looks suspiciously like it nevermind but guys and then the other part of power cable and a USB cable so that is all the accessories that come with the SP 710 870 okay so physical properties of the seven-inch LCD photo frame first of all you've got besides the 120 Meg's of integrated memory in the unit itself we've got a USB slot so we can use that for a USB thumb drive or we've got an SD slot so you can put an SD card in so you can store a lot more than 120 Meg's of photos and have them display on the screen now you've also got your controls on the back a Kensington lock a power button and here you will find a socket for this so I will demonstrate the proper use of this instrument and the socket first peel back the plastic e rubbery protective layer then carefully insert the ball into the socket yeah there we go okay and then see that's not very well protected at all is it but what are you gonna do so that is your stand and that is how the device will stay held up when you put it on the shelf so as the cameraman pointed out the likelihood of the contents of this box being very similar to the other one is very high so we are going to do a speed unboxing here okay protective thing ah driver CD that was not in the other one the cameraman is clearly wrong you do not contain the same thing manual warranty and a 10 inch photo frame not that the number of inches is necessarily the most important thing no and this one also has kind of a cool if I can get the camera to zoom in it has kind of a neat swirly pattern to the frame which I think looks pretty stylin if you can see that in our shot not really sure either way let's move on to what else is in the book so we've got a stand for the back and this is an entry shake device I wonder what this could be used for we'll get on to that later and then we have power in USB so it is for the most part the same things inside so let's move on to showing you what they look like first of all we show you all of the inputs on the 10 inch model so we've got compact flash right here then we have right there yeah okay then we got USB 4 USB thumb drive USB for loading things onto the internal memory and an SD card now you will also see an input port at the back and that is for this thing there we go oh I broke it hold on okay that's a little tricky bit of a tight squeeze there there we go so that way we can have the 10 inch one standing on its own so first thing once you've wiped the fingerprints off that you've inevitably got on them while you were unpacking them it's time to turn on your new digital photo frame so we will have that experience together right now aha a lovely couple and a nice looking Asian family and there's there's the family again some people in the bath excellent as you can see the 10 inch one actually has a feature where it is playing music in the background I'm not sure if the camera can hear that or not but it's it's nice enough but I think it would get pretty old so we'll investigate a little bit further into putting our own pictures on and maybe even our own music so I just wanted to briefly cover the viewing angle the viewing angle on these is a lot better than what picture frame photo picture digital picture frames were about a year ago when I bought one so you can see the picture perfectly clearly at an angle of about like this so if you were to mount this on the wall or put it up on the mantel or whatever else you'd be able to see it from a good part of the room unlike older digital photo frames but that pretty much concludes the 7 inch model let's grab some controls on the back that's a pretty basic thing so we're going to move onto some of the neat features of the 10 inch model okay so we plug in our USB thumb drive and we'll use what is a very cool feature that this has which is touch sensitive controls right here which are actually proving to be kind of a pain but the idea behind something like this is that you wouldn't necessarily be using it very often so USB gets connected so we click photo enter there we go so the the cameraman grab some pictures that he thought were pretty tremendous from my last vacation and so we've got a new slideshow with the the pictures that he's chosen apparently most of these pictures involve me thinking that men are interesting and good ah women are scary all right so um moving on I'll be cameraman one and we'll cover how to put music to go along with your photos okay so we just connected the USB drive with the music on it and hold this up here so we navigate over to music select it I have to say though the the the menus on this digital photo frame earthquake unintuitive at times I'm not really sure which of these songs to actually select here so we'll go with this one okay so at any rate um now we'll try to play a slideshow which I can't figure out how to use this thing I'm going to be a hundred percent honest with you right now I find the menu system very unintuitive and I find these touch controls are essentially useless because half the time they don't register and the stroke and the other half the time you feel like you're just basically putting a bunch of smudgy fingerprints it's like licking one side of the frame and hoping that it's you know all going to look nice it's all I'm not I don't like it very much I suspect once you get it set up it's terrific so we're just going to do that off camera and then we'll show you the product so we're going to wrap this up this has been kind of a long and drawn-out episode of my blog basically um once we got it working I have the clock enabled on here and it has an alarm clock feature along with it you can set any number of different transitions we've got it set to random right now you can set which background music you want to use I mean here's a couple things that I was not impressed with as far as limitations go with the product you can't use anything other than JPEG as far as we can tell for the photo format and also mp3 was the only sound format that we were able to get working so all in all I'd say I'm pretty happy with the product the image quality is stellar it has a better viewing angle than the 7-inch model obviously on the 10-inch screen it has a very high resolution at 1024 by 600 um for the longest time we can figure out how to adjust the volume of the background music but we did figure that out it's something to do with using the up and down arrows which honestly if it was documented a little better then it would be fine it took me about you know 5-10 minutes to sit down with it get it working exactly the way I wanted it once it's sitting on the mantel then it operates as advertised and honestly it's a really cool little product thanks for watching - tech tips if you have any comments or suggestions for future videos please post them in the comments under the video you