Samsung The Frame and The Serif: what they ship with and what comes off

Start with what saves time: these sets run Tizen, which is not Android. No ADB, no pm uninstall, no package list to disable. Everything you can do here lives in the set's own menus, and we have written it up in cleaning up a Samsung television with Tizen. Why these brands fell outside the directory is covered in why Samsung and LG sets are out of scope.

The Frame is the television most people buy without reading the spec sheet. So let us read it, with the European regulated fiche alongside.

The One Connect: can you swap the brain without the panel?#

It is the implicit selling point of the whole range: the electronics sit in a separate box, so when the box gets old you change the box. It does not work that way.

The 2025 manual, under usage restrictions, puts it in these words: The supplied Wireless One Connect only works with screens of the model that came with it. There is a PAIR button and a menu to unpair and search again, but it searches for its own.

For the wired box on the standard Frame, Samsung publishes no equivalent statement. What it does publish, in its British buying guide, is that the One Connect Box only comes with select TV models and has to be connected to the TV for proper functionality. It is not an accessory: it is half the device, and it travels with it.

The Frame Pro's wireless version adds a physical limit. The radio declaration in the European manual assigns 100 mW at 61 GHz - 61.5 GHz. (The Frame only): the box talks to the panel over a 60 GHz link. The manual asks you to install it within 10 m of the screen and in a location free of obstructions (e.g., concrete walls, metal furniture), and warns of possible choppy video or audio.

There is even a socket warden: the Power Adapter Check option transmits an alert if the connected power adapter is not the dedicated adapter for Wireless One Connect.

Art Mode: what it costs and what it collects#

Samsung publishes no price in Spain: not one of the Spanish Frame pages we downloaded carries a figure in euros. What does turn up, in the store's own customer reviews: Tampoco sabía que se requería suscripcion para poder tener los salvapantallas.

The figure lives in the British terms, as a PDF: the subscription will auto-renew for an additional 12 months and the Participant will be required to pay for their subscription for the then current price (currently £39.99 per year) unless cancelled. Redeeming the free year needs a valid debit or credit card and a Samsung account, and redeeming it means entering into a 12-month Art Store subscription.

How much art that shop holds depends on which Samsung page you open. The Spanish gallery page says más de 2.100 obras; the German guide, über 2.000 Kunstwerke; the British guide, over 3,000 works of art; British support, 2,600+ available works; and the promotion page, over 5,000 selections. Five figures, five pages from one manufacturer.

The free tier does the same thing on a single page: the Spanish body text promises más de 370 obras gratuitas disponibles cada año while its own footnote offers 30 obras de arte que se renuevan mensualmente. British support drops to 20 pieces of art every month, each on screen for 5 minutes. In the paid catalogue, the preview runs 30 seconds.

On data, all Samsung pins down is that an account and a card are required: the terms point at the general privacy policy and say nothing about the art you look at.

There is a sensor, though, and that is where the cleanest contradiction sits. The manual explains that the TV may automatically turn on or off by detecting user motions and other visual changes, that the sensor sits at the bottom, and that it can trip on a flashing LED, a pet, a car moving outside the window. The regulated fiche for the same TQ65LS03FAU declares, in field 19: Room presence sensor available: No.

What the bezel costs: The Frame against the same year's QN90F#

Both 2025, both 65 inches, both Samsung. Field by field, with both fiches open:

So the answer: the bezel and the matte panel cost three fast HDMI out of four, twenty watts and two sound channels, one processor generation, and a whole energy class in SDR. Nineteen watts more to light less screen. In HDR both declare the very same figure, 231.0 W. What it gains is the USB-C and the box.

And one figure that unsettles the story: the Frame Pro, which is Neo QLED with mini LED, declares 211.0 W in HDR, twenty watts less than the plain Frame. It also brings five HDMI, all five at 4K 144Hz.

One series, two different panels#

At 55 and 65 inches the LS03F's regulated fiche declares 144 Hz as the default refresh rate. At 43 and 50 it declares 60 Hz. That is not a nuance: they are different panels sold under one name.

The website tells it worse. The Spanish page for the 65 says 100Hz (Hasta 144Hz); the one for the 43 says 50Hz flat, against 60 Hz on its own regulated fiche. The 43 has no maximum HDMI input rate field at all, and drops the sound to 20W in 2CH. The German page for the 65 adds a third pair of numbers under HDMI 2.1 features, 4K@120Hz (auf HDMI-Port4), and is the only one that says where the eARC lives: eARC (auf HDMI-Port3).

The Serif: unsold in Germany, out of stock in Spain#

The LS01D is from 2024 and plays the same trick: 60 Hz at 43 and 50 inches, 120 Hz at 55 and 65, and those two climb from class G to F. Spain sells only the two small ones and both read Agotado, even though the European registry holds all four under Spanish codes (TQ55LS01DAU is number 1970189).

Germany has none. The German sitemap keeps the design, reviews and connectivity pages, and the overview one is still titled The Serif 2023, buy button included. Products, zero, and the European registry has not one Serif under a German code either.

The Serif has no One Connect, no USB-C and no Art Mode: its sheet has neither the Art Mode nor the Art Store field. It does have a matte screen and 40W, but in 4CH. And one field you will not see elsewhere: NFT: Nifty Gateway.

One last clock: the British security declaration for the 2024 models sets 5 years from the date of initial supply, 2024 and an end on 31 December 2029. It lists all six sizes of The Frame LS03D. The Serif never appears.

What Samsung does not publish#

Not one figure in nits, across nine pages and sixteen regulated fiches. No Tizen version either, no RAM, no storage. And Dolby Vision does not appear once: not on the Spanish, British or German pages, not in the 2025 European manual. HDR10+ yes, and in German trimmed to Ja (ADAPTIVE) against the Spanish Sí (ADAPTIVE/ GAMING).

How to tell whether this sheet is your television#

The code changes by country even when the set is identical. The 65-inch Frame is TQ65LS03FAUXXC in Spain, QE65LS03FAUXXU in the UK and GQ65LS03FAUXZG in Germany. Look at the middle block: 65LS03F. The F is 2025, the D is 2024. If FW follows, it is the Pro.

What it ships with and what you can do#

Samsung TV Plus is built in and does not uninstall. What is in your hands are the privacy checkboxes, the Art Mode motion sensor and the decision not to link a Samsung account. Without one, per Samsung's own Spanish note, you are left with broadcast TV and the HDMI inputs. It is all in the Tizen guide.