Getting pictures out of your digital camera and onto your walls can sometimes be a hassle. Digital picture frames provide an easy way to display all your digital photos, and here’s one that’s loaded with features.

The MF-8104 Premium frame from Digital Spectrum is an 802.11b/g enabled frame with wireless connectivity to the Internet. This is great for grabbing photos from places like Flickr, one of the most popular photo sharing sites in the world. You can also plug in a USB flash drive or an industry-standard memory card that can store thousands of photos.

It also features built-in speakers for playing music while displaying a slideshow, which could be more annoying than functional. The 10.4″ display also looks massive compared to other digital picture frames in the market today.

It appears to me than the frame runs a version of Windows CE or a tightened-down version of Windows XP with a quick flash of a mouse cursor at boot. The frame was sluggish at times but once the pictures get loaded, it had no problem displaying them. A fix was to scale down the images to a lower resolution (around 640×480 or 800×600) instead of your camera’s 3000×2000 resolution that is much too big for a display this size.

I also had a few problems with the WiFi reception, it simply wouldn’t pick up my network. I managed to try it in almost every part of the house to see if it would pick up the 802.11n-based network (which is 802.11g backwards compatible) - but had no luck.

Overall your mileage may vary with this digital picture frame. If you don’t need to stream photos from Flickr or another photo sharing site, this frame will do just fine without the wireless connection. Of course, at a hefty $349.99 you may want to think twice about purchasing the MF-8104 from Digital Spectrum.

Pros

• Support for photo sharing sites.
• Gorgeous 10.4″ display is bigger than other picture frames available.

Cons

• Sluggish performance.
• Spotty wireless reception.
• Expensive.

Final Verdict
3.5 out of 5 stars.

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