CellPix - Photo albums for your phone

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Perhaps you intend to sell mobile image content commercially or want to have a photo album on your phone or perhaps have images on your phone that only you can access. CellPix takes any images and turns them into a single Java file, along with optional textual descriptions as well as a secure viewer for the images.

Key features are:

The java midlets that CellPix create run on almost any Java enabled phone
They can run on older phones with limited memory, images are only decoded when needed
Original images can be JPEG, GIF, PNG or BMP
Images can be automatically thumbnailed beforehand to a given size or the originals used
A sound track can be added for Midp2.0 phones (or that have Midp1.0 plus JSR-135)
Images can be stored both in the midlet as well as remotely on an http server for smaller midlets
A PIN code can be set so that is required to access the images
Inclusion of a one line description for each image which goes into an optional complete index
Option to include a further larger text description for each image (see sample below)
Option to display images one by one or as an automatic slideshow
The user can scroll around images if they are bigger than screen size
Language independance - all messages can be changed to suit a given market
Standard browser applets can be created for webpage demonstrations
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Note that you will need to install Sun's free Java2 runtime on your PC to create CellPix slideshows.

Why use Java to display images?

CellPix encapsulates images along with a Java program that can provide the ability to browse the images and to include extra textual information with the images. For instance a stock photographer might want to give a lengthy description of where a photo was taken and with what equipment as well as a number to order a copy of an image. Other uses might be:

Display of catalogue information with textual description and prices
Packaging of manga and cartoon stories into a single download
A family photo album

Memory issues

CellPix is very good at dealing with limited memory and can run on older java phones. It does this by only decoding images when they are needed for display and reclaiming the memory as soon as a new image is displayed.

Selling content built with CellPix

CellPix provides a way to package together content for commercial sale into a JAR file. Two features help with this:

The JAR file can be designated to be viewable until a given time so that content expies after a certain period
A PIN code can be set so access is restricted to those who have recieved the code

CellPix's advantages over MMS

The MMS format allows packaging of images but there can be great incompatabilites between phones. CellPix provides a standardised viewer with the images that will run on any Java enabled phone. Furthermore the text associated with MMS images is limited. CellPix allows large amounts of textual information to be associated with each image.