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 took 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 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.

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

Photo roll

DCIM > 100PALM

smartphone

 

 

Smartphone

Screen captures

screencaptures

Smartphone

Wallpapers

wallpapers

Copied from elsewhere

[Folder created by you

[Folder created by you

 

in USB storage]

containing at least one

 

 

BMP, JPG, or PNG]

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.

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