Palm PIXEW User Manual

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Chapter 5 : Photos, videos, and music
Camera
Your phone comes with an easy-to-use, 2-megapixel camera with an LED 
flash. You can use the camera to take pictures, and then use the Photos app 
to view them and send them to your friends and family (see 
Share a picture
). 
To add a personal touch to your phone, use your pictures as your wallpaper 
(see 
Save a picture as wallpaper
) and as caller ID images (see 
Add a picture 
to a contact
).
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Camera
 
.
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The camera is set to automatically determine if the flash is needed. If 
you want to change the flash setting, tap 
 to keep the flash on, and 
tap again to keep the flash off.
3
To take the picture in landscape view, turn your phone 90 degrees.
4
Press 
Space
  
or 
tap 
.
The picture you took is automatically saved in JPG format. Keep snapping 
pictures, and then go to Photos to look at them and delete the ones you 
don’t want.
Photos
To get pictures on the phone, you can do any of the following:
Take a picture with your phone’s camera (see 
Take a picture
).
Copy pictures from your computer (see 
Copy files between your phone 
and your computer
).
Receive pictures as email attachments (see 
Open attachments
).
Receive pictures as part of a multimedia message (see 
).
You can view a picture as an email attachment in JPG, GIF, BMP, or PNG 
format. You can view a picture as part of a multimedia message in JPG 
format. In the Photos application, you can view pictures you take with the 
camera or copy from your computer in JPG, BMP, or PNG format.
You can also look at pictures on the web directly in the web browser (see 
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Photos
 
.
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Tap the album containing the picture, and tap the thumbnail of the 
picture. The Photo roll album contains pictures you took with your 
phone’s camera.
3
Swipe left or right on the screen to look at other pictures in the album.
Videos
To get videos on your phone, you can do any of the following:
Copy videos from your computer (see 
Copy files between your phone and 
your computer
).
Receive videos as email attachments (see 
Open attachments
).
Receive videos as part of a multimedia message (see 
).
You can view non-DRM videos that you receive as email attachments or 
that you copy from your computer in the MPEG4, H.263, H.264, MP4, M4V, 
3GP, 3GPP, 3G2, and 3GP2 formats. You can view videos you open in a 
multimedia message in MP4 format. Videos play on your phone in 
landscape orientation.
Use the YouTube application to view YouTube videos (see 
YouTube
).
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Videos
 
.
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Tap the video.