Windows Phone 8 : Working with the Windows Phone Software (part 5) - Using the Photo Interface

Using the Photo Interface

The Windows Phone software provides some additional options for viewing photos and their attributes. If you click the Photos pane in the On Your Phone window, you can view and select any folders on your phone that contain photos. From there, you need only click the photo to see it full-screen.

When the photo has been displayed as full screen, you can do a few things with it. Right-clicking the photo reveals options to delete the photo or save it to your PC.

Left-clicking the photo displays the photo’s attributes, including the date it was taken, its dimensions and size, and its filename.

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It’s Not All Good

As you look at the photo’s attributes shown here, notice that the Windows Phone software reported the photo’s size as less than 1KB. In actuality, however, the photo was 4.11MB in size.

The Windows Phone software is also lacking in its preview capabilities. Although the software enables you to click a photo and view it full-screen, you can’t use full-screen mode to flip from one photo to the next. Furthermore, the software does not offer the capability to play music or videos.