Samsung The Frame Pro (2025) Review

The Frame Pro answers the long standing complaint about the Frame, which was that a television priced like a flagship carried the picture of a mid tier set. A Mini LED backlight replaces the plain edge lighting, the panel runs at 144Hz rather than 60, and the matte art layer is better than it was, so contrast in a dark room is finally respectable while the thing still reads as a framed print when it is off.

The One Connect box is now wireless, which means a single power cable runs to the wall and every source sits in a cupboard up to ten meters away. That trick has a cost: routing a source through the wireless box adds better than 30 milliseconds of input lag whatever the distance, which matters to exactly the people a 144Hz panel is sold to. A single micro HDMI socket on the back of the panel bypasses the box and gets that time back, at the price of a cable running to the screen.

The dimming is edge driven rather than a full array, so blooming is more visible than the Neo QLED badge implies, and Dolby Vision is absent as it is across Samsung's range. At $2,199 for the 65 inch since April 2025, the QN90F standing beside it in the shop gives a better picture for less. This remains furniture that plays television, and it is now much better television than before.