Waste of money First and foremost I haven't really used much of the WiFi functions on this frame with the exception of synching up with Photobucket and that seemed to work decent enough. The main reason for buying this was it seemed much easier to upload pic files from a PC via USB whereas most of the other digital frames are geared more for using memory cards/sticks and for just transferring pics from a digital camera. Connecting with the USB cable seemed simple enough when it was initially hooked up and a few files were transferred but the next day the PC wouldn't recognize the frame when it was hooked up. So I had to spend hours tweeking the thing to get my PC to recognizing it again. Once that was done and I was able to load up some jpeg and mp3 files is where the real problem began. With less than 800 jpeg files and a handful of mp3 files the drive was full which seemed kind of odd for a frame that supposedly has 512MB for memory but whatever..fair enough. The problem is once all the photos were on there accessing them was significantly problematic. Clicking on the All Photos button from the Internal Memory section continually got me an error message telling me the database was busy and I had to access the photos via the folders section. Well the folders section only lists a small percentage of the photos on the drive and even then it is difficult to access them as clicking on any individual photo repeatedly sometimes still wouldn't bring it up on the display. When pics did come up the display quality was pretty nice. The sound quality is less than impressive when playing MP3s so I can only assume it would be the same if you're accessing internet radio stations as well. Again I realize I was only purchasing this for limited functions that others may not care about but if a product has this many flaws on just things I care about I'm guessing they'll carry over to other aspects of the device as well.
Serious Piece of Junk I am also an IT person for aliving. I will jsut say that this thing seesm like it should be in alpha test not even beta test. The general concept is great. But I am very disappointed with HP.Good Qualities Can set up an email address to automatically send photos to is.Bad Qualities Picture frame is cheap plastic Speakers are horrible Device often loses its wifi connection and has to be reporgrammed. As other use mentioned integration is weak in terms of memory card to online photos. It often fails to do whatever online action you are trying to do and you have to keep on trying. It is so slow one is not often sure if the remmote is not working or wether its processing your request.I am embarrassed I paid $150 for this when it came out. Maybe its worth $60. if they come out with updated firmware for it it might work better.
Had to return it ! Right out of the box it refused to communicate with my wifi network which uses the secure WPA2. After 3 hours of messing with it I decided to change my router to WEP and it finally connected and download itself a new firmware version.Well it's all over the internet that the WEP is not secure so I changed againto WPA2 and the problems started . The connection to DHCP would fail most of the time or it would freeze while showing picture from Picassa website and trying to play radio station at the same time. Before buying this item see if HP decided to added the support on its own web site for my surprise I couldn't find this device listed there at all I called HP and their advise was to reset the router.What a pit! This device has good specs if would just work.At least buy.com was very friendly to accept it back and provided a shipping label.
Poorly integrated wireless I had high hopes for this frame. I did a bunch of research before purchasing and like many in the photo frame market am simply looking for a frame capable of receiving photos wirelessly in an easytouse comprehensible format with a reasonable user interface that doesn't require constant interaction after the initial setup.To preface this I'm in IT for a living and relatively savvy when it comes to electronic gadgetry. I'm quite confident I have given this an overly fair opportunity to succeed a few hours to be precise. In fact I was sure I was missing something because the options that don't exist are so central to making the frame even halfway worthwhile. And if by chance my assessment is incorrect shame on HP for not making it either easier to use or providing some sort of documentation for the wireless portion of the frame which by and large is left for the user to muddle through.Anyway simply stated the biggest issue I have with this frame is each of the functions is completely disparate from the rest of the frame. For example if you load pictures onto a memory card the frame will only play those pictures and not stream anything wirelessly. Likewise if you are wirelessly streaming photos via Facebook in a particular album not only is it impossible to have the slideshow also display Snapfish/etc photos but you can't even set it to include other Facebook albums in the slideshow! It seems crazy but I tried over and over again and using both the Facebook and Snapfish interfaces and I could only get it to display one album at a time. Once you're tired with that album apparently they expect you to manually set it to display a separate album and so on.Honestly is it so much to ask that the frame connects to my Facebook/Snapfish/etc account and displays random images from ALL photo galleries? Even better would be to be able to exclude specific albums but that's not even that important at least in comparison.
Freezes up I bought this frame about 6 months ago and was able to set it up initially. It found my wireless network and streamed Flickr photos but the frame would only access a single folder in my account. So I put in an SD card with photos and now it works for awhile and then freezes up on a single photo. The only way to get back to the slide show is to turn off the frame and then restart which requires going back through the setup again and choosing the card. Though I was once that means one time able to get it to accept pictures from my cell phone it was erratic in doing so. Plus I had to find out where it had stuck them. If I was looking at the cell phone photos I couldn't see the pictures on my card without going back through the menu and choosing the card instead. I agree with the other negative reviewersit's hard to get the frame to do what it should do even the basic part of playing a slide show continuously and support is almost nonexistent. I tried to research the issue on the HP site but they don't have anything and can't even find the name of my product on the Support page. I'm glad I didn't buy these as gifts for anyone.
It should work for my Mom I bought this frame as a gift for my mother so she could display photos of my daughter. I realized that any frame where she had to manually update the photos on the frame would likely become an unused brick unless if I continually mailed her updated flash drives. I selected this frame because of its integration with flickr and the capability for me to use a website to do the necessary updates to display new photos from flickr.This frame was very easy to setup.
There's Nothing Smart about the HP Smart WiFi Digital Frame Like many others I bought this HP digital frame as a gift. The main selling point was the WiFi capability that allows the frame to receive photos directly by email text message or photo sharing sites.Unfortunately the HP Smart digital frame is anything but.We have spent several days trying to setup the HP frame and getting it to work. Sadly it does not work well at all.You register your frame at the HP website in order to enable features such as weather photos by email etc. Herein lies the first big problem. Every time you choose Setup on the frame even to check previous settings you are forced to generate new authentication codes to associate the frame with your website account. This is very frustrating and inconvenient.The same thing happens with setting up the wireless network if you go into the setup menu the previously connected wireless network is removed and you are forced to reenter your wireless settings. Which can be a pain if you have to remember generated passwords/keys from your wireless router.After all the countless false starts and reentering settings we tried emailing photos to our newly registered frame.
Designed by Carly Fiorina? Well I guess I'm lucky because the frame is currently stuck in a firmware download reboot loop and so back it goes.But all the complaints from other reviewers. They're all accurate. The frame is slow the connectivity is poor with my netgear router using wep and it's 2010 and the frame does not do rss. But even the services it does do namely picassa it does poorly.
Poor Interface The frame can access all the popular photo sites but it does not allow you to have the pictures automatically do a slideshow. I wanted a frame to send to my parents that all the kids could just upload pictures to a website and then they would show up on the frame. The user has to navigate to the picasa facebook etc. page and select individual folders to view them one at a time. My parents can do that from their computer. Also the frame displays little icons for the various websites it supports in the corner. I don't want to see website logos in the corners of all my pictures. I returned the frame and am shopping for another.
Do not buy this This is the worst HP product I have bought.I can't connect with my Flickr albumbs.It is very difficult to set up.
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