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Smartparts 8-Inch Wi-Fi Digital Picture Frame
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Average customer review:
(6 customer reviews)
Product Description
800x600 Resolution / 24-bit, 16.7 million viewable colors / USB Connectivity / Supports SD, MS, xD, MMC, and Compact Flash memory card slots
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #9354 in Camera & Photo
- Size: 8-Inch
- Color: Black
- Brand: SmartParts
- Model: SPX8WFEC
- Dimensions: 10.66" h x 3.78" w x 9.05" l, 3.48 pounds
- Display size: 8
Features
- Features an 8-inch LCD display with 800 X 600 screen resolution
- Wi-Fi enabled so that you can easily email pictures to your frame; fully integrated with Windows Live
- Includes SyncPix software to help you easily manage pictures on the frame
- Frame automatically adjusts pictures to the correct orientation so that they are viewed vertically on the horizontal frame
- Stores up to 5,000 pictures; compatible with Compact Flash and SD memory cards
Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
Smartparts SPX8WF 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame with Wi-Fi
The slim, genuine wood frame and custom designed matting of the SPX8WF offers a classic style that can compliment any room or office. The frame features WiFi connectivity with an easy push-button setup that allows you to connect the frame to the internet and start sharing photos instantly. The removable and adjustable stand makes showcasing your memories easy. The frame can easily mount to the wall or be place on a table or shelf.
Smartparts SPX8WF Highlights
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The large, high-definition eight-inch LCD screen shows-off your pictures with the same crisp quality that you receive from high-quality prints. The display offers over 16-million vibrant colors, and provides optimum contrast, allowing you to view your pictures in their natural state. Your memories will be displayed exactly as they were when your pictures were taken.
Wi-Fi
The SPX8WF is Wi-Fi enabled so that you can easily email pictures to your frame. The complimentary Smartparts software links your computer to your frame to automatically send and share images wirelessly from your PC to the frame. It is fully integrated with Windows Live so you can view the latest news, local weather and much more. The frame has continuous free firmware upgrades assuring you that your frame is always up-to-date and running at its prime.
Email
Each frame has a pre-assigned, secure email address and instant email functionality so that it’s ready to go once you take it out of the box. Using your computer, cell phone, or PDA you can send a simple e-mail with a JPEG attachment to the frame. Once the Smartparts email server receives the picture, it is scaled to the correct size, is automatically rotated and the picture quality is enhanced. The picture is then sent to your digital frame where you manually accept or reject the picture. Receive photos from family and friends using the frame’s free email address. The Smartparts "buddy list" allows photos to automatically show up on the frame from only email addresses you approve, giving you the surety that you won’t receive any unwanted pictures. You can set up additional security settings to insure that you receive pictures that comply with those specific settings.
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Enjoy your pictures at all times, even when the internet is down. Smartparts employs a cache function to store the last 3MB of images that were received via the internet, so you can enjoy continuous viewing.
Three Easy Steps
You can upload your pictures to the frame manually with three easy steps. Simply remove the memory card from your camera, insert the card into the frame and view your photos. With the frame’s SyncPix software there is no need to upload and edit your pictures on a computer.
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Simply insert your memory card into the frame and the SyncPix software will do the rest. SyncPix makes perfectly sized copies of each picture to be stored on the frame, while leaving the originals on the card unchanged. By resizing and optimizing each photo, SyncPix frames can store thousands of pictures, all neatly organized in the photo albums. Keep your frame up-to-date by visiting the Smartparts website and downloading the most recent software updates. The frame will display the amount of memory left on the frame.
Smart Fix Auto Optimization
The frame automatically adjusts pictures to the correct orientation so that they are viewed vertically on the horizontal frame. The frame will also remove duplicate pictures to ensure that you don’t see the same picture frequently in your slide show.
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You can play different slide shows as frequently as you choose by simply selecting which album you want the pictures to be retrieved from. You can also set the frame to view one, two, three or four pictures at a time.
Picture Files
This digital photo frame is compatible with JPEG files. Most digital cameras will save pictures in this format by default. Pictures that are not in JPEG format, such as web, scanned or RAW images, cannot be displayed on the digital photo frame. However, these images can be converted to the JPEG format for the digital photo frame using specific computer software.
Photos, news, traffic, weather, and much more delivered fresh to your frame! With Windows Live FrameIt, you can set up your photo collections to stream into your SPX8WF instantly and refreshing regularly. For additional information visit http://www.windowslive.com.
Other Files
The frame is compatible with WMA files and has built-in speakers so you can easily sync music to any slideshow or still frame picture.
Connectivity
The frame has two USB ports -- slave and host -- as well as two memory card slots. You can use the USB host port to view pictures on a thumb drive or easily download pictures from your computer to the frame using the USB slave port. The frame offers a memory card slot for Compact Flash memory cards and a card slot for SD memory cards. You can increase the amount of pictures that can be displayed by increasing the size of the memory cards being used.
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- Secure Digital - SD
- Compact Flash - CF
- Multimedia Card - MMC
- xD card
- Memory Stick, MS, MS Pro, MS Duo and MS Pro Duo
- 8-inch LCD Dislpay
- 800 X 600 screen resolution
- Stores up to 5,000 pictures
- 16.7 million viewable colors
- Supports SD/MS/MMC/CF/xD/USB devices
- Auto Power ON/OFF
- IR remote control
- 100-240V, 50-60Hz
- 512MB internal Memory
- Supports JPEG, WMA, MP3
- Wireless 820.11g
- Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS)
- WPA and WPA2
- Wireless Digital Picture Frame
- Removable stand
- Remote control
- AC power adapter
- USB cable
- User manual
- Quick start guide
- SyncPix desktop software
- Windows Live Frameit setup guide
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Review for SPX8WF Wi-Fi
By kirsch92
This review is of the SPX8WF Wi-Fi frame. It currently (12/27/08) has no user guide as that is listed as "coming soon" on the website and is not included in the box.
This frame has a ton of features, and without a guide it is for someone with a lot of patience only.
The Good:
Picture Quality is excellent.
Very nice frame, blends in well with standard picture frames.
Wi-fi setup is easy.
Email works well and resizing of photos happens automatically. Photos are placed into folders according to sender.
Windows Live Frameit Works well, once setup.
The Syncpix software does an OK job of auto resizing to 800x600, but it is not perfect and does make some mistakes.
Frame may be setup to turn on and off on a timer, but there is no motion sensor.
The bad:
The menu system is more complicated than it needs to be, resulting in too many button pushes to do anything.
The software is not included in the box and must be downloaded from the Smartparts website. This would not so bad, except you have to do a bit of digging to find it. The software is a little slow to startup and is very basic. You can either choose single photos or an entire folder to send to the frame.
The Frameit setup is not obvious either, and will result in some hair pulling. To register the frame you must push a small button in the upper left hand corner of the opening screen of the software you just downloaded onto your computer. There is no way to set it up from the frame itself, nor can you do it from inside the Windows Live frame it website. A royal pain, but it does sync up well when done.
Speakers are pretty tinny, but I think all frames have that problem.
Other thoughts:
Considering the price is just over $100, the picture quality and the ability to receive photos wirelessly makes it a good purchase, if you can deal with some frustrations.
Hopefully some firmware updates will address some of the shortcomings of the menu system.
The completion of a good user guide would go a long way towards easing a lot of angry phone calls SmartParts is sure to recieve. I imagine they pushed this product out the door for the holidays before it was truly ready. It has a ton of features, if you can just figure out how to do it.
A steal for those savvy enough to set it up properly.
The slideshow only pulls from one folder at a time. If a card is installed it automatically shifts to the card. While the Syncpix software will re-orient any photos you send to the frame, ones on a card must be done by using the rotate button on the remote. Once you have done that, it will remember the next time it cycles thru.
For the price, you just can't find these features anywhere else.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Bad production qualtiy, non-existent replacement service
By James Peroulas
This Wifi picture frame was reasonably easy to set up, the only difficulty being setting up RSS.
The frame started locking up at random times. Sometimes it would just display the same picture forever and sometimes it would jump into the menu system and then lock up. The only way to regain control was to remove the power and re-start the frame.
I called customer service and they provided me with the delightful insight, "Well, it's not supposed to do that!" They arranged for an RMA and it only took them one week after my call for them to send me the email with the link to the UPS shipping information.
Two weeks after they received it, I called them (waited 50 mins on the phone) to see what was going on. They said, "We're backed up from Christmas and there are some delays in sending out the replacements. I checked and your RMA number and it is going to be sent out in the next 2 days."
Two weeks later and the frame has not yet arrived. Furthermore, now, when you call customer service, all you get is a recording prompting you to leave a message! They're not even answering the CS lines any more! It has now been more than two full months since Christmas.
Stay away from Smartparts!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Digital Frame
By Deirdre E. Mcphillips
I was very impressed with the quality of the picture on this digital frame. It was very easy to download the pictures from my computer. I have not tried to download using the WiFi connection but setting up the connection was very easy. The only problem I had was figuring out how to get the music to play with the screen show. It was actually very simple to do and I felt silly once I figured it out. The remote control is a huge help to work through the menus since the buttons on the back of the frame are a little hard to work with. This frame has so many features and the price is very nice. In fact I will probably buy another one for my mother in law for a present. The only reason I gave it only four stars is because the speakers sound very tinny. Not a big surprise considering the frame is more for pictures than for playing music. Overall I would highly recommend this product to anyone who is looking for a digital picture frame.
