User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Basics
- Just Type
- Work with applications
- Phone
- Email, text, multimedia, and instant messaging
- Contacts, Calendar, and other personal information
- Photos, videos, and music
- Web and wireless connections
- Documents
- Preferences
- Learn More
- Regulatory and safety information
- Index
36 Chapter 9 : Photos, videos, and music
Camera
Your smartphone comes with an easy-to-use, 5-megapixel camera. 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. To add a personal touch
to your smartphone, use your pictures as your wallpaper and as caller ID
images.
1 Open Camera .
2 The camera is set to automatically determine if the flash is needed.
To change the flash setting, tap the icon.
Automatic
Flash always on
Flash always off
3 To take the picture in landscape view, turn your smartphone 90
degrees.
4 Tap an area of the screen to focus the camera on an object.
5 Slide out the keyboard, hold the smartphone firmly, and press
Space or gently tap onscreen to take the picture.
The picture you took is automatically saved in JPG format. You can 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 smartphone, you can do any of the following:
• Take a picture with your smartphone’s camera.
• Copy pictures from your computer.
• Receive pictures as email attachments.
• Receive pictures as part of a multimedia message.
• Copy a picture from a web page.
The following table shows you the photo formats that you can see on your
smartphone and the apps you can see them in.
TIP Press and hold Space to take pictures in continuous burst mode. Release
Space to stop taking pictures. Continuous burst mode allows you to capture
several images with a single action.
DID YOU KNOW? Your smartphone offers another way to “take a picture”: You
can save any currently displayed screen as a picture file (also known as a screen
capture or screenshot). To take a picture of the currently displayed screen, press
and hold Option + Sym + P. The picture is saved in PNG format to the Screen
captures album in Photos and is stored in the screencaptures folder of the USB
drive. You can work with it like any other picture.
Table 1. Photo formats viewable on HP webOS smartphones
Photo format View in Photos Download from
Email
Download from
MMS
BMP √√
GIF √ (see Note)
JPG √√√
PNG √√