Viewing photos and videos in Gallery
Use Gallery to view photos and play videos that you’ve taken with your phone camera, or
to view similar content that you've downloaded or copied to the memory card. In Gallery,
you can also view photos and videos that you've uploaded to an online service, for
example, to a Picasa™ web album or to
From Gallery, you can also share your favorite photos and videos with friends by using
Bluetooth™ wireless technology, email, or messaging. And you can perform basic
editing tasks on photos and set them as wallpaper or contact pictures. For more
Connecting your phone to a computer
on page 116.
BRAVIA® ENGINE
Sony's Mobile BRAVIA® ENGINE technology improves the viewing quality of photos and
videos after you take them, giving you clearer, sharper, and more natural images.
BRAVIA® ENGINE is turned on by default, but you can turn it off if you want to reduce
battery consumption.
To turn off Mobile BRAVIA® ENGINE
1
From your Home screen, tap .
2
Find and tap
Settings
>
Display
.
3
Unmark the
Mobile BRAVIA Engine
checkbox if it is already marked.
To open Gallery and view your albums
1
From your Home screen, tap .
2
Find and tap
Xperia™ Gallery
. Photos and videos on your memory card,
including those you’ve taken with the camera, and those you’ve downloaded from
the web or other locations, appear in albums.
If the screen orientation does not change automatically when you turn the phone sideways,
mark the
Auto-rotate screen
checkbox under
Settings
>
Display
.
2
1
5
3
4
1
Tap to open the camera
2
Tap to open 3D Album
3
Album stack—touch with two fingers and spread them apart to view the content
4
Album of photos and videos taken with the phone camera
5
Flick left or right on the screen to view more albums
Working with albums
You can rearrange your photos and videos within albums as well as move content
between albums. You can also upload content from your Gallery albums to online
services such as Picasa™ and Facebook™, and you can view content from such online
services in Gallery.
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