 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 105P and the SPF 71E. 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 what SPF stands for. I don't actually know what SPF stands for, but either way, we're going to unbox 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 what the marketing message right on the inside here reads. It's got a little blue bow. 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, Quebec. And then we've got some warranty stuff. And right inside, you will find the 7 inch digital photo frame. Now, let's just move that aside for now. Next inside, you've got the. Oh, wow. This is complicated. OK, you've got a power cable. You've got a stand, which I will remove because right now all you can really see is me rummaging in the box. You've got a little stand that looks suspiciously like it. Never mind what that is. And then the other part of the power cable and a USB cable. So that is all the accessories that come with the SP 710A. What is it called? 710E. OK, so the physical properties of the 7 inch LCD photo frame. First of all, we've got besides the 120 megs 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 megs 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 this socket. First, peel back the plasticky rubbery protective layer, then carefully insert the ball into the socket. Yeah, there we go. OK. And then that's not very well protected at all, is it? But what are you going to 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. OK, protective thing. Driver CD, that was not in the other one. The cameraman is clearly wrong. They 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. There we go. And this one also has kind of a cool effect. If I could get the cameraman to zoom in, it has kind of a neat swirly pattern to the frame, which I think looks pretty styling. If you can see that in our shot here, not really sure. Either way, let's move on to what else is in the box. So we've got a stand for the back. And this is an interesting shaped device. I wonder what this could be used for. We'll get on to that later. And then we have power and 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 USB for 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. It's a 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. 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 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 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 mantle 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. It's got some controls on the back. It's a pretty basic thing. So we're going to move on to some of the neat features of the 10 inch model. OK, 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 cameraman grabbed some pictures that he thought were pretty tremendous from my last vacation. And so we've got a new slideshow with 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 moving on, I owe the cameraman one and we'll cover how to put music to go along with your phone. OK, 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 are quite unintuitive at times. I'm not really sure which of these songs to actually select here. So we'll go with this one. OK, so at any rate, now we'll try to play a slideshow, which I can't figure out how to use this thing. I'm going to be 100 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 the stroke and the other half the time. You're just basically putting a bunch of smudgy fingerprints. It's like licking one side of the frame and hoping that it's all going to look nice. 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, once we got it working, I have the clock enabled on here. 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. Here's a couple of 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 1024x600. For the longest time, we couldn't 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 5-10 minutes to sit down with it, get it working exactly the way I wanted it. Once it's sitting on the mantle, then it operates as advertised, and honestly, it's a really cool little product. Thanks for watching Linus Tech Tips. If you have any comments or suggestions for future videos, please post them in the comments under the video.