The BlackBerry operating system uses very advanced multimedia features and has rich multimedia services. The OS has its own media software which is inbuilt. The Desktop Media Manager is the software that the operating system uses for playing music files as well as video files. The desktop media manager plays music files having the extensions .mp3, .aac and .wma. This software allows the user to rip music CDs.
Also, the user can convert and transfer music files from the computer to the mobile phone. It is quite easy to search for audio files in the phones powered by BlackBerry OS because of the find field. The find field is situated at the top of every subfolder containing media files. The video formats supported by this software are mp4 and wmv formats. The searching process to find video files is the same as it is for music files. There is an application programmer interface (API) that supports audio and video playback in the BlackBerry OS. This API also supports the recording and mixing of audio and video files. By using the API, application programmers can include multimedia services in their application programs.
The BlackBerry OS has another multimedia service which is the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). The MMS service enables the user to send pictures, ringtones, songs, videos and news to their friends and family in the form of a message. There is additional facility in the BlackBerry OS for the users who love sending MMS. The users can compose their own MMS to send it to someone. All that the users need to do is use the camera on their smartphone to make a slide-show of images. The users can add a caption to every photograph and send it as a message. This multimedia service is very advantageous when you need to share your vacation photos with your friends. It is also of great use to corporate people to share the highlights of a meeting or charts etc.
The multimedia services of the BlackBerry OS are nothing less than outstanding and this makes it one of the best mobile OS.
