Throughout my testing, I found the keys on the side to be hyper-sensitive at times but not enough at others. When I was navigating through the Wi-Fi settings to input my WPA password, it would scroll through the letters of the keyboard extremely fast. However, when trying to work the buttons to navigate through the menu it seemed the keys weren’t always responding to my actions. I find it’s a bit of a hit and miss and that’s primarily through the fact that the keys are touch sensitive behind the bezel and have no tactile response. While it keeps the profile of the photo frame slim and sleek, it could frustrate you over time.

The resolution of the picture frame is 800×600 which is sufficient to show the details of most pictures. Whatever processor Samsung has decided to use, I did find it struggled a bit with some of my large panorama photos. However, the pictures still looked great.

While watching the slideshow of pictures, there is a menu feature that gives you some control over how things are going. You can start and stop the slideshow, modify the brightness, rotate the picture, change the aspect ratio, delete the picture, set the picture as the background for the photo frame or choose the appropriate background music.

With background music comes volume adjustment, a simple up to increase the volume and down to decrease. With a range of 0 to 100, I’m very pleased at how loud and how well these two little speakers work.

The digital photo frame has the capabilities to play movies and with the battery, it would be pretty convenient to take this around and just watch a video where you normally wouldn’t have access to a TV and DVD player. You just need to rip a movie onto a USB drive or flash memory card and you’re good to go.

Here’s a quick capture from the movie Max Payne.

Much like viewing photos, you do have a menu option with movies. You have the power to adjust the brightness and select how you want the video to be played.

The final feature you can use the SPF-85V is to play music. The photo frame has no problems playing your favourite MP3 files. The audio controls are very limited, but this is a photo frame and not an oversized MP3 player. For what it does, I’m pretty content.

From my use of the SPF-85V Digital Photo Frame, I can say I’m pleased with the performance. The images and video files I played turned out quite well despite only being a 800×600 resolution monitor. I definitely would have preferred 1024×768 as it would make the pictures look smoother. There aren’t very many instances where I’m seeing rough edges but I am able to see individual pixels.

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