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Z500a
11 June 2004
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.
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.
Media types
There are certain media formats that support continuous
media (speech, audio and video). The following media
types are supported for SMIL:
• 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 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.
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)