Blackberry® For Dummies®, 4th Edition

Chapter 14. Satisfy All Your Senses with the Media Player

In This Chapter

• Listening to music

• Playing and recording videos

• Working with your pictures

• Selecting a ring tone

• Recording your voice

• Adjusting the volume

• Traversing the menus and using Explore

• Checking memory use

• Customizing the Media app

If one word describes today's phone market trends, it's convergence. Your BlackBerry is among the participants in this convergence race. In addition to sending and receiving e-mail and being a phone, a camera, and a PDA, the BlackBerry is an excellent portable media player.

In this small package, you can

• Listen to music

• Record and watch video clips

• Sample ring tones

• Snap and view pictures

These capabilities are bundled into an application with a name you'd recognize even after sipping a couple of pints of strong ale — Media.

Accessing Media

To run Media, simply select the Media folder from the Home screen. The Media folder is easy to distinguish, as you can see in Figure 14-1, because it bears the image of a folder with a right arrow like the Play button you typically see on a music player.

Figure 14.1. Explore Media here.

Media is a collection of the following media applications:

• Music

• Videos

• Ring Tones

• Pictures

• Voice Notes

• Video Camera

• Voice Notes Recorder

When you open Media, you see that each application is represented with an icon, as shown in Figure 14-2. It's not that difficult to figure out what each one of ...