Operation Manual

Chapter 9 : Photos, videos, and music 139
The following table shows you the photo formats that you can see on your
smartphone and the apps you can see them in.
NOTE You can download and look at GIFs in Email, and they are saved to USB
storage, but you can't look at GIFs in Photos or use one as wallpaper.
You can also look at pictures on the web directly in the web browser (see
Web).
1 Open Photos .
2 Tap the album containing the picture, and tap the thumbnail of the
picture. The Photo roll album contains pictures you took with your
smartphone’s camera.
3 Swipe left or right on the screen to look at other pictures in the album.
4 To find photos you took on your smartphone, connect your
smartphone and your computer using the USB cable and tap USB
Drive on your smartphone. On your computer, click the drive
representing your smartphone, click DCIM, and then click 100PALM.
Organize your pictures into albums
The Photos app organizes the pictures you take or add to your smartphone
into predefined albums. The following table tells you where to find your
photos both in the Photos app and in your smartphone’s USB Drive storage.
You can use any photo in any album in Photos as wallpaper (see Save a
picture as wallpaper). The photo does not have to be in the Wallpapers
album.
You can assign any pictures on your smartphone to one of these albums or
to an album you create. To create and assign pictures to albums, you must
put your smartphone into USB Drive mode. You then create the albums and
move pictures into them using your computer.
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 
Table 2. Photo locations
Origin of photos Album in Photos Folder in USB storage
Email Downloads downloads
MMS Messaging Messaging
Copied from computer Miscellaneous Root level of USB
storage
Camera on
smartphone
Photo roll DCIM > 100PALM
Smartphone Screen captures screencaptures
Smartphone Wallpapers wallpapers
Copied from elsewhere [Folder created by you
in USB storage]
[Folder created by you
containing at least one
BMP, JPG, or PNG]