Second edition (March 2003)
This manual is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB, without any warranty. Improvements and
changes to this manual necessitated by typographical errors,
inaccuracies of current information, or improvements to programs
and/or equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB at any time and without notice. Such changes
will, how ever, be inco rporated into new editions o f this m anual.
With the mobile camera CommuniCam™, you can
take pictures, view them in your phone’s display and
send them as e-mail attachments or using MMS
(Multimedia Message Service). To do this, you need a
subscription that supports these services. Please check
with your network operator or service provider.
The camera supports 24-bit colours, which means
16 million colours.
You can use a picture as a screen saver or as a
background in your phone’s display, or save it together
with a contact in your phone book so that the picture
appears when that person calls.
You can send your pictures to a Web album. Visit
wap.sonyericsson.com for more information.
Note: The camera works with Sony Ericsson mobile
phones T68i, T68ie, T300 and T310. For information
about other compatible Sony Ericsson mobile phones,
visit www.sonyericsson.com.
When you plug your CommuniCam™ into your
mobile phone, you automatically enter the camera
menu. You can also enter the camera menu by pressing
the shutter button on the camera or by scrolling to
Fun&Games,
Before you send a picture using e-mail, you need to
enter settings for a data account and for an e-mail
account in your phone. Before you send a picture using
MMS, you need to enter your service centre number
and enter WAP settings in your phone. Your network
operator provides you with the settings. See also the
User’s Guide for your mobile phone.
The phone that you are sending the picture to needs to
support data transmission and MMS in order to receive
and show the picture.
Taking and sending pictures
If you want to change the picture size, you must do so
before taking the picture. See “Picture size” on page 9.
3. Hold the phone and the camera as shown in the
illustrations on the previous page. You can see the
subject in the phone display. In the bottom left corner
of the display, you can see the picture size. In the
bottom right corner, you can see how many pictures
you have taken.
4. Take a picture by pressing the shutter button or
5. You get a preview of the picture in the display. To
YES
accept the picture, press
.
6. A list of options appears:
Note: If you want to rotate a picture, you must do so
before saving it.
YES
• Save – press
to save the picture in View pictures in
the camera.
YES
• Send – press
and select a transfer method,
See the User’s Guide for your mobile phone on how to
send e-mail messages or multimedia messages.
The camera must stay plugged into your phone until
the picture has been sent. When the picture has been
sent, you get back to the list of options. To keep the
picture in your camera, select Save.
• If you avoid subjects with sharp contrasts between
light and dark.
• If you keep the camera still and at a right angle
when taking the picture.
• In good lighting conditions.
The camera has a digital zoom. Move the phone’s
joystick sideways to zoom in or out while viewing the
subject in the phone’s display.
Note: Do not carry your phone using the
CommuniCam™ strap.
Saving and deleting pictures
When you accept a picture that you have taken, you
enter a list of options where you can select Save. The
picture is then saved in View pictures in the camera.
If Camera memory full appears, you cannot save any
more pictures until you have either deleted some from
View pictures or moved them to the phone. See
“Saving pictures in the phone” on page 8.
To delete pictures from the camera
1. Scroll to Fun&Games,
YES
View pictures,
.
, CommuniCam,
YES
,
YES
2. Select the picture you want to delete and press ,
You can copy or move the picture to the phone so that
you can access the picture without plugging in the
camera. To do this, select View pictures in the camera
menu, press and select Copy to phone or Move to phone.
When you have copied or moved a picture to the
phone, you can use the picture as a screen saver,
background or together with a contact in the phone
book. You can also send several pictures in one
multimedia message and send pictures using an
infrared link or Bluetooth wireless technology.
Viewing your pictures
You can view the pictures you have saved in the
YES
camera by scrolling to Fun&Games,
YES
CommuniCam,
YES
picture,
, View pictures,
.
YES
,
, select a
When you are in the list of pictures in View pictures,
you can scroll to a picture and press to:
YES
• Send the picture – press
and select Via MMS or
Via e-mail.
YES
• Get Picture info – press
to get picture info such as
the name, size and file type of the picture.
YES
• Copy to phone – press
to copy the picture to the
phone so that it is saved both in the camera and in the
phone under My pictures.