The Nokia Gallery Feature

On Nokia devices, the closest thing to the file explorer is the Gallery, which is available on both Series 60 and Series 40 devices. Inside the Gallery, you can choose to access either the phone's main memory storage space or the MMC card. In each storage unit are several folders with names such as Images, Sound clips, and Video clips. Those folders hold files and subfolders. They function just like folders on a computer. When you open a file in the Gallery, the phone operating system uses the filename suffix to determine which application should be used to open any particular file. For instance, a .jpg file is opened with an image viewer; a .3gp file is opened with a video player (e.g., the RealOne player), etc. You can rename, delete, and move files around from one folder to another.

On older Series 60 devices (e.g., Nokia 3650), there is no Gallery application. On those devices, the Images application is equivalent to the Gallery found on newer Series 60 and Series 40 devices. Despite its name, the Images application holds images, audio files, video clips, and other multimedia files.

The limitation of the Gallery, of course, is that you have no control over which files are saved in it. The phone automatically saves the following media files into the Gallery:

• Image files from photos captured from the Camera application
• Audio files captured from the Recorder application
• Video files captured from the Video Recorder application
• All media files of known formats downloaded via the Services browser
• All media files of known formats downloaded from the Messages Inbox

Non-multimedia files, such as installation package files (i.e., .sis and .jar files), text files, office documents, and executable files, cannot be saved into the Gallery.