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Sony Ericsson P1
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May 2007
Picture editor formats
PlayNow™
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 purchasing.
The content available from PlayNow™ differs from
country to country. Games cannot be previewed
and are only available in certain phone modes.
MusicDJ™
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 touchscreen enabled.
Format
Example
file size
Description
BMP
226 KB
Microsoft® Windows® Bitmap. A graphics format defined by Microsoft
supporting 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
(animate
d)
210 KB
(5 frames)
A GIF animation containing a number of images in a timed and repeating
sequence. Some Sony Ericsson P1 applications display only the first image in
the sequence.
JPEG
(.JPG)
13 KB
An image compression format managed by the Joint Photographic Experts
Group. The format supports various degrees of compression, enabling different
quality/file-size balances to be provided in one standard. JPG files support
millions 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 comparatively large file sizes. Not commonly used.
WBMP
23 KB
Wireless BitMap. An image format optimized for small mobile devices. Sony
Ericsson P1 supports Black and White, 2-bit greyscale and 6-bit colour modes,
according to ETSI 3GPP TS 23.040
