The view-on-map feature that we love Video player does subtitles It allows you to check the place where the shot has been taken directly on the map using the preinstalled Google Maps application (data charges may apply). Then, you can use the View on map option in the image gallery. The Sony Ericsson has no inbuilt GPS receiver but it still can geotag camera images (using Cell-ID). The dedicated Photo viewer The dedicated Photo viewer At times, the phone froze for a couple of seconds before moving on. Unfortunately, the Photo gallery can get quite laggy when there are a lot of photos in a folder. Opening an image makes the thumb zoom in to fullscreen view mode, while exiting the fullscreen view zooms out to thumb view. The shots in the dedicated Camera Album are sorted by the date they were taken on. Images are generally displayed as a 3 x 4 grid of thumbs. Luckily, auto rotation is available so you can still rotate images to landscape orientation not only manually but automatically as well. The Photo gallery stores the shots you've taken along with the pre-bundled wallpapers. TrackID is also present – it analyzes the currently playing song on the radio or whatever it picks up with its mic and retrieves the performer and name of the song. Songs need to be tagged, which is only possible with the Sony Ericsson’s PC software. It automatically generates playlists based on what tempo and what mood you want – fast or slow, sad or happy. It is a hip feature – on phones that support it you can skip songs or even shuffle the playlist by just a flick of the hand.Ī familiar Walkman goodie, SensMe, offers a different approach to populating a playlist. There is no shake control however, despite the built-in accelerometer. The Walkman player on the Zylo also offers fun Styles – skins that change the look of the player into a vinyl record player, a reel-to-reel tape player, CD player and others. The interface colors of the Media center vary across different themes. Surprisingly, the Zylo also supports the HD FLAC audio format – an open-source lossless audio codec. The player is compatible with numerous file formats, including the regularly used MP3, WAV, WMA, M4A and E-AAC plus the MegaBass equalizer preset and Stereo widening. Across the Media Center menus, you can enjoy screen auto-rotation. As we already said, there's an accelerometer on board so auto screen rotation is enabled.

Its menu lists the Photo, Music, Video, Games, RSS feeds and Settings icons.

The Sony Ericsson Zylo runs the flash-based Media Center.

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