In part six I am going to take a look at the Album app. If you want to read the earlier parts of the review click here.

When I first started using the Album app, I thought it was quirky and poorly designed.

When you open the app you are faced with your photos sorted by date. So I thought, maybe my photos I copied across on to the micro SD card would be saved and displayed in the My Albums tab. Well at first they didn’t display. I realised that the photos need to be in the root directory of the micro sd card to display correctly as shown below. I still might be doing something wrong, but i haven’t figured it out yet.

Of course, if you want Facebook etc photos showing you need to login to your service. I wish there was a way of hiding the service icons like Facebook as I don’t use it at all, and it looks naff sitting in the gallery. Anyway if you click on a folder you are presented with all the photos as below.

Using two fingers you can zoom out and make the thumbnails bigger and bigger and smaller again. Below are some of the different sizes.

You can go larger and larger and larger again. Photos look great on the screen. From within the app you have many sharing options as well as editing.

Clicking the menu provides basic editing, but then you can invoke the photo editor and bring up more options and filters.

With all the photo options available, the pinch to zoom or shrink the thumbnaiks , Sony really do provide a complete gallery app.