5Slide out the keyboard, hold the smartphone firmly and press Space

or gently tap onscreen to take the picture.

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.

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.

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.

Review pictures

1After taking a picture, tap the thumbnail of the picture in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. This opens the picture in the Photo roll of the Photos application.

2Swipe left or right on the screen to view other pictures you have taken.

Photos

Look at pictures

To get pictures on the smartphone, you can do any of the following:

•Take a picture with your smartphone's camera (see Take a picture).

•Copy pictures from your computer (see Copy files between your smartphone and your computer).

•Receive pictures as email attachments (see Open email attachments).

•Receive pictures as part of a multimedia message (see Receive and view text and multimedia messages).

•Copy a picture from a web page (see 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.

Table 1. Photo formats viewable on HP webOS smartphones

Photo format

View in Photos

Download from

Download from

 

 

Email

MMS

 

 

 

 

BMP

√

√

 

GIF

 

√ (see Note)

 

JPG

√

√

√

PNG

√

√

 

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).

1Open Photos .

2Tap the album containing the picture and tap the thumbnail of the picture. The Photo roll album contains pictures you have taken with your smartphone's camera.

3Swipe left or right on the screen to look at other pictures in the album.

4To 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 100HP.

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