Mobile imaging explained

Shoot photos and video clips on your mobile phone.

Mobile imaging in brief

  • use your phone to make photos and video clips
  • multi-megapixel image capture ensures high-quality pictures
  • edit images directly from the handset
  • pictures can be stored in phone memory or on removable memory cards, on your computer or on online
  • share pictures using MMS, display them on a television screen or print them out

What is mobile imaging?

Mobile imaging is the ability to take pictures and shoot video footage using a digital camera built in to a mobile phone. It also includes the ability to edit these images on the phone and display them: on a phone, on a television or computer screen, or printed out on paper.

For example, you could take photos of wildlife during a hiking trip and make finished compositions on your phone by zooming in on individual animals and cropping out unwanted parts of the picture. Then you could send your pictures to friends using MMS, upload them to a photo sharing site like Flickr, or print them using a Bluetooth-enabled printer or at a digital photo kiosk.

Many Nokia phones offer similar image quality to digital cameras, and some include features such as 6x digital zoom for close-ups and a self-timer so you can be in your own pictures

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Does my mobile phone have mobile imaging?


Find out which Nokia phones use Mobile imaging

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Why use mobile imaging?

Mobile imaging combines the camera in your handset with the computing power and communications capabilities of the phone to enable you to create, edit and share the images that you want. Using mobile imaging you can:

  • capture the moment– phones such as the Nokia N73 give you a large colour display, high quality lens and top features like 6x digital zoom and a sequence mode that can take 6 pictures in 2 seconds
  • zoom, crop and distort using a range of image editing programs that come with the phone or can be downloaded from the internet
  • take as many pictures as you like– most Nokia phones use removable storage cards, so when one gets full you can simply insert a new one. You can also move photos and videos from a storage card to your computer and reuse the card whenever you need to.
  • set up a slide show on your phone's screen or on a computer monitor or television using Bluetooth, infrared or a cable connection
  • share pictures with friends– send them by MMS, upload them to a photo-sharing site on the Internet, or send them to other phones using Bluetooth or infrared
  • record your mobile life – organise, edit and tag your photos and videos and share on Ovi, the simplest online sharing service
  • make prints of your pictures at a photo kiosk, using your home printer, or by ordering them online from a photo printing service

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