Samsung Intros SPF-800P Digital Picture Frame

These days, hardware pieces of news are rather scarce, with practically all hardware developers, researchers and manufacturers saving their best releases for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Besides a peek at an upcoming motherboard or the emergence of a certain lawsuit, nothing much can be seen sprouting up on the IT market, in addition to a few storage cards and a few leaks.

Adding to the short number of recent releases, Samsung introduced a consumer electronic exclusive to the Korean market, namely the new Digital Picture Frame, better distinguished from other products of this type by its more accurate denomination, namely SPF-800P. Although designed primarily as a picture frame, the SPF-800P does more than just put on a pretty face and display whatever photos it has stored on its 2GB of internal memory.

The Digital Picture Frame is an 8-inch device, which, despite its size, can display stored pictures in resolutions of 800 x 480. As if this wasn't enough, the SPF-800P also features a video viewer and an audio player. Sound capabilities may be enjoyed using compatible headphones, even Bluetooth-enabled headsets for the enjoyment of favorite audio files without bothering, or being bothered, by anyone else. The gadget also has a few extra I/O capabilities, including a microSD card reader, for additional storage or file transfer between the device and a PC, and, obviously, the Bluetooth connectivity.

Quite feature-rich, especially for those who are interested in a rather impressive surrogate for a portable media player, the Digital Picture Frame SPF-800P is also environmentally friendly, being designed entirely free of mercury and lead. The product is, as previously mentioned, exclusive to the Korean market and carries a price tag of 199,000 Won (the equivalent of $170 dollars). source, a 10-inch model will also become available soon.