Sony Ericsson Z500A manual Imaging, VGA camera, Media types, Taking a picture, Image formats

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Supporting J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition), the phone lets users download and run new games and applications. This is a great way to upgrade the game gallery, install work-supportive programs and personalize the phone.

SMIL

SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language and is pronounced “smile”. SMIL is an advanced XML-based protocol, and Sony Ericsson’s MMS implementation supports a subset of the SMIL 2.0 protocol.

•AMR narrow band speech codec MIME media type

•MPEG-4 AAC audio codec MIME media type

•MPEG-4 video codec MIME media type

•H.263 video codec MIME media type

The use of SMIL in a product allows the user to create and transmit PowerPoint-style presentations on the mobile device. Using a media editor, users can incorporate text, audio, images, video clips and animations to assemble full multimedia presentations. The user can decide in which order the image and text will be displayed, as well as for how long the images and text lines are to be shown on the display.

The media types for JPEG and GIF can be used both in the 'content-type' field in HTTP and in the “type” attribute in SMIL 2.0. The following media types are to be used:

•JPEG MIME media type

•GIF MIME media type

All these media are pointed out by MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) types.

Media types

There are certain media formats that support continuous media (speech, audio and video). The following media types are supported for SMIL:

Imaging

VGA camera

VGA camera

With the integrated VGA camera, the user can take pictures and video clips and store them in the phone memory. The user can send them as an attachment in an email or a picture message (MMS).

Taking a picture

It takes only two clicks to take a picture with the dedicated camera button. The first click starts the application and the second click takes the picture. The large internal display acts as viewfinder, rotating the

picture depending on portrait or landscape orientation of the camera. Taking self portraits is easy with the clam closed, using the external display as viewfinder.

The camera application is also available in the menu system.

Image formats

The camera is able to take and send pictures in the following resolutions:

•QQVGA (160x120 pixels)

•QVGA (320x240 pixels)

11 June 2004