Sony ST27A User Manual

Viewing photos and videos in Gallery

Use Gallery to view photos and play videos that you’ve taken with your phone

camera, or to view similar content that you've downloaded or copied to the memory

card. In Gallery, you can also view photos and videos that you've uploaded to an

online service, for example, to a Picasa™ web album or to Facebook™.

From Gallery, you can also share your favorite photos and videos with friends by

using Bluetooth™ wireless technology, email or messaging. And you can perform

basic editing tasks on photos and set them as wallpaper or contact pictures. For

Mobile BRAVIA® Engine

Sony's Mobile BRAVIA® Engine technology improves the viewing quality of photos

and videos after you take them, giving you clearer, sharper and more natural images.

Mobile BRAVIA Engine is turned on by default, but you can turn it off if you want to

reduce battery consumption.

To turn off Mobile BRAVIA® Engine

From your Home screen, tap .

Find and tap Settings > Display.

Unmark the Mobile BRAVIA Engine checkbox if it is already marked.

To open Gallery and view your albums

From your Home screen, tap .

Find and tap Gallery. Photos and videos on your memory card, including those

you’ve taken with the camera and those you’ve downloaded from the web or

other locations, appear in albums.

If the screen orientation does not change automatically when you turn the phone sideways,

mark the Auto-rotate screen checkbox under Settings > Display.

Tap to open the camera

Tap to open 3D Album

Album stack – touch with two fingers and spread them apart to view the content

Album of photos and videos taken with the phone camera

Flick left or right on the screen to view more albums

Working with albums

You can rearrange your photos and videos within albums as well as move content

between albums. You can also upload content from your Gallery albums to online

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