White Paper M600

Picture Editor formats

Format

Example

Description

 

File Size

 

 

 

 

BMP

226 KB

Microsoft ®Windows Bitmap. A graphics format defined by Microsoft® support-

 

 

ing 1, 4, 8 or 18-bit colour depth. No compression, so files can be very large.

 

 

Used for icons and very small images.

 

 

 

GIF

42 KB

Graphics Interchange Format. Highly compressed by limiting the colour palette to

 

 

16 or 256 colours. GIF is therefore good for icons and diagrams. When a Note is

 

 

sent as an email attachment, the GIF format is used.

 

 

 

GIF

210 KB

A GIF animation containing a number of images in a timed and repeating

(ani-

(5 frames)

sequence. Some M600 applications display only the first image in the sequence.

mated)

 

 

 

 

 

JPEG

13 KB

An image compression format managed by the Joint Photographic Experts

(.JPG)

 

Group. The format supports various degrees of compression, enabling different

 

 

quality/file-size balances to be provided in one standard. JPG files support mil-

 

 

lions of colours and are therefore good for 'real life' photographs.

 

 

 

MBM

 

Multi Bitmap. This is a Symbian OS format for colour and greyscale bitmap

 

 

images.

 

 

 

PNG

166 KB

Portable Network Graphics. PNG compresses images with millions of colours so

 

 

there is no loss of detail, but has comparatively large file size. It is not commonly

 

 

used.

 

 

 

WBMP

23 KB

Wireless BitMap. An image format optimized for small mobile devices. M600 sup-

 

 

ports Black and White, 2-bit greyscale and 6-bit colour modes, according to ETSI

 

 

3GPP TS 23.040

 

 

 

PlayNowTM

PlayNow™ is a unique direct-link quality music download application. PlayNow users can connect to a live list of top music hits, videos, games and pictures. Content can be previewed before pur- chasing.

The content available from PlayNow differs from country to country. Games can not be previewed and are only available in certain phone modes.

MusicDJTM

A sampler music tool with MIDI drum, bass, chord and accent loops in different music styles, which can be combined to create polyphonic ringtones. MusicDJ™ is touch screen enabled.

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Sony Ericsson M600 manual PlayNowTM, MusicDJTM, Picture Editor formats, Format Example Description File Size