The Frame is the crowning achievement of Samsung's TV range. The Frame 2021 differs in several cardinal ways, nonetheless remains unchanged in others. This is The Frame 2020 vs 2021.

Luke Hopewell is a gadget veteran of over 10 years. He's reviewed over 100 TVs in his time, and been to the magic factory where they're all made.

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Design

When Samsung made The Frame, it envisioned exactly that. A Telly that fit into the real estate of a moving picture frame. Thanks to some clever design, The Frame 2021 finally makes good on that promise.

Previous models of The Frame – ranging from 2018 right through to 2020 – house the TV inside a thicker unit that measures almost two inches deep (45.8mm / 1.8inches). The Frame 2021 almost halves that measurement, bringing the Boob tube to just an inch thick (25.4mm / 1inch).

It's certain to be an phenomenal transformation that lets The Frame 2021 truly blend into a room.

Samsung is keeping The Frame 2021 tidy with the new One Connect Box, that allows y'all to run a single cable to the panel to handle ability and multiple HDMI inputs. This allows you to keep your wall gratis of cablevision mess, tucking it away in an amusement unit or floor alcove instead.

Even the remote gets an update this twelvemonth. Instead of the same-one-time white smart remote, The Frame 2021 gets a new SolarCell remote. As the name suggests, it forgoes replaceable and wasteful batteries in favour of a solar panel that recharges it. Skilful thinking, Samsung.

Panel

There's a lot of new to honey when it comes to design, only the actual image you see on The Frame 2021 might feel familiar.

This yr's Samsung Television set lineup is blessed with a range of new gear. Yous've got NeoQLED, smarter 8K and more. The Frame 2021, however, rocks exactly the same panel as The Frame from 2019 and 2020. Like, exactly the same.

Information technology's a good-quality QLED panel, but it's the same one we saw terminal year and the twelvemonth before. If you've seen information technology once, y'all've seen it 1000 times when it comes to this new Tv set.

Samsung The Frame 2021 image

Backside the panel, nevertheless, information technology's a slightly different story.

The Frame 2021 is powered by Samsung's new Quantum Paradigm Processor. An image processor is basically just a chip that controls what you lot see on the screen. Information technology's the brain of your Television, and it's where all the smarts live that adapt an image intelligently for your viewing pleasure. It does everything from run your OS through to upscale your image, and everything in-between.

While the processor in both the 2020 and 2021 Frame models share the aforementioned proper name, I suspect they're slightly dissimilar in their pattern. Peculiarly given that all the new Samsung Idiot box models now accept Quantum-branded processors, each packing dissimilar levels of power up and downwards the range.

Size

Samsung has a history of making a agglomeration of different sizes available to its customers and letting the market place decide which one is the most popular.

The Frame 2020 ranged in size from 32-inches to 75-inches. The Frame 2021 features a similar range offering, but has several new form factors lingering around the centre.

Specifically, The Frame 2021 comes in a fifty-inch model that didn't exist previously. It's a good sugariness spot for a bedroom TV, in particular. Peculiarly for larger bedrooms that would be too pocket-size for 42-inch but too large for 55-inch. I suspect the 50-inch will be merely right.

One of The Frame 2021 models gets a new trick that will brand it appeal to a bunch of new buyers: the 42-inch model supports portrait orientation.

Portrait mode on The Frame 2021 means the Goggle box tin exist flipped vertically. This makes viewing content recorded or even screencast from your smartphone even more enjoyable.

It'southward not every model getting this functionality, withal. The 32-inch Frame TV and the 43-inch Frame TV will be the only ones to receive portrait way support.

Samsung already has a TV capable of automatically switching into portrait fashion. Information technology's the $1700 Samsung Sero which spins to brandish mobile-optimised content in its natural format. Now y'all've got similar functionality with The Frame 2021!

Accessories

The Frame is a great platform, and Samsung knows information technology. That's why this twelvemonth includes more accessories than always.

The new 2021 Frame includes additional storage for your fine art, and makes for an easier time of getting your ain pictures on in that location.


The speakers on the 2021 Frame also back up a new Adaptive Sound+ mode, which calibrates the feel to the room you're in. It'south a step up from the 2020 Frame which only really has two sound modes, one only slightly louder than the other. It'll exist good to run across those who forgo a soundbar catered for with meliorate native sound at terminal.

The One Connect box is back, and so you can connect all your peripherals and devices with just a single cable running to the Telly. It'southward honestly The Frame's best feature. And for those who now opt not to wall mount The Frame, the 2021 model comes with a summit-adjustable stand every bit opposed to the fixed legs on the 2020 model.

Software

Both the 2020 and 2021 Frame models run Samsung's home-grown Tizen operating system. If you've used 1, you've used them all. The 2021 Frame, however, gets a few new additions that Samsung has idea up.

Not only do you get Apple AirPlay 2 every bit with previous models, but you at present get born Samsung Health. That means you can do all your workouts and rail your progress natively on your Frame TV without having to cast or AirPlay some other device to the console.

If you do want to cast to the Tv set, however, NFC is your friend. Provided you lot accept a Milky way device running Android 8.1 or higher, you lot tin can tap it to your Tv set and get the content playing at that place instantly.

Yous also get support for multiple vocalisation assistants on the new 2021 Frame. Whereas the 2020 Frame just supported Bixby, the new 2021 Frame supports a option of Bixby, Alexa or Google Assistant for all of your AI needs.

Toll

Here's what you'll pay for a 2021 Frame.

32-inch Samsung Frame TV (2021) $919 AUD
43-inch Samsung Frame Television receiver (2021) $1629 AUD / $999 USD
l-inch Samsung Frame Tv set (2021) $1978 AUD / $1299 USD
55-inch Samsung Frame TV (2021) $2329 AUD / $1499 USD
65-inch Samsung Frame TV (2021) $2899 AUD / $1999 USD
75-inch Samsung Frame TV (2021) $4079 AUD / $2999 USD

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We've already reviewed The Frame extensively in 2020. Check out the pricing and our review of what it'southward similar to live with. We'll bring you lot our review of The Frame 2021 range presently.