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Nokia Photo Browser

Browse your photos with stunning 3D effects



Nokia Photo Browser is an experimental photo browser that makes your viewing experience quick and fun:

* Pleasing visual effects
* Intuitive touch UI
* Magnifying glass
* Face browsing

Compatibility and system requirements

Works well on Nokia devices based on S60 5th edition, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, and S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. The touch interface is only available with the S60 5th Edition including Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and N97.

Popular questions and problems:
1. Who in the forum are Nokia Photo Browser (NPB) team?

hokkane4, juhakaup, and nkaneko are the developers responding in this forum. Our posts have the blue "staff" emblem attached.
2. What is Photo Browser trying to achieve

We believe photo viewing should be a fun and pleasure

We'd like to see you launching NPB just to kill some time or to relax
We'd like to see you showing your photos to your friends using NPB
We'd like to see you taking more photos because you want to view them with NPB
3. "Not compatiple" warning appears while the installation

Please don't worry and just proceed with your installation. It will work fine. We'll try to fix it at some point in the future releases.
4. "Expired certificate" installation error for 5800 XpressMusic

Unfortunately, we cannot provide good solution to this as Photo Browser is not a part of the problem. You can find the latest updates on this problem in the following forum thread.

http://betalabs.nokia.com/forum/topic/1474

One of the solutions recommened in the thread is to execute the factory reset. Please be confirmed what will happen before you commit. It will really erase and reset.
5. Slow image loading, gray boxes, and blurry pictures

Please allow a few seconds for each picture to generate a thumbnail for the first time. While the thumbnail is not ready, Photo Browser shows either gray box or low resolution image (looks blurry in the single image view). Once generated, the picture will load very quickly from the next time.

The fastest way of getting thumbnail generated is to launch Photo Browser and just leave it for a while. Moving the grid causes CPU to be spent for rendering therefore delaying the generation to finish.
6. N96 takes forever to load images

We've been reported by some patient users that only a few images are loaded after 20 minutes. Unfortunately, we cannot make commitment to solve this problem. It may be because of the hardware it has. It may be because of the system software. And of course, it may be NPB.

We very much appreciate your feedbacks on how it works with the individual product. But please also understand that we cannot provide good support for every device model here in the Beta labs.
7. Menus, dialogue boxes, image information appear in the side way

It is definitely not the design intention. But we just chose not to delay the release trying to fix it. We'll try to fix it at some point in the future releases.
8. It's missing xxx function that is in the Gallery

Your suggestions for new functions are most appreciated. That's why we're making the releases in the Beta labs.

Having said that, please also be reminded that we're not exactly trying to create the replacement for the Gallery application, which is useful for general many purposes. Photo Browser is the experiment having focus on exploring how photo-viewing can create an exciting user experience.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Photo Browser should be strictly limited to looking at pictures. If it is fun and starts continuously from photo viewing, that means a great idea.

Please take this oppurtunity to read the topic 2 above as well.

9. Better zoom quality, view-by-group, and Bluetooth send

They have been popular request. And we have some ideas under trials. Hopefully, we can make them available at some point in future releases.



Select the correct version to download:

All S60 5th Edition devices
S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices with accelerometer
Download (SIS 1.15 MB)

* Tested with 5800 XpressMusic, N97, and N79.
* Should work with N86 8MP, E66, E75, 6720 classic, 5730 XpressMusic, E55, N85, N96-3, 6210 Navigator, and N96.
* May not be able to achieve reasonable performance with N96 and N96-3.

All S60 3rd Edition FP1 devices
S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices without accelerometer
Download (SIS 1.15 MB)

* Tested with 5630 XpressMusic, E71, N82, N95 8GB, and N95.
* Should work with 6710 Navigator, 5320 XpressMusic, 6650, 6220 classic, N78, 6124 classic, E63, E51, N95-3 NAM, N81, 6121 classic N81 8GB, 6120 classic, 6110 Navigator, 5700 XpressMusic, N76, and 6290.
* Known not to work with E90 Communicator.

You will most likely encounter "not compatible" warning message. Please just proceed with your installation.
How to use:

Please allow a few seconds for each picture to generate a thumbnail for the first time. While the thumbnail is not ready, Photo Browser shows either gray box or low resolution image (looks blurry in the single image view). Once generated, the picture will load very quickly from the next time.

Touch UI

* Strokes, drags, and taps should work as you'd expect
* In the single image view:
o Long press to start the magnifier
o Double-tap will start the regular zoom
o Double-tap on a face will start the face browsing
o In the face browsing mode, a stroke will travel between faces

Keys

* Press hang-up key to exit the Photo Browser
* Press '0' or space to rotate (Only for devices w/o accelerometer)
* C-key or back space to delete the image
* In the single image view, '*' to zoom-in, '#' to zoom-out
* Navi key and soft menu should work as you'd expect

Images are loaded from memory card(E:\Images), F-drive(F:\Images\) and C-drive(C:\Data\Images\).

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