New Mid-Range Smartphone from Sony, Enjoy Watching PowerPoint on Xperia SP

How to play PPT on Sony Xperia SP?

Sony recently unveiled a mid-range Android smartphone named Xperia SP, which has some same configurations as last year’s flagship --- the Xperia Z. The Xperia SP has a 4.6-inch 720p display, a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, and an 8MP rear camera. One of the differences between 2 models is that the Xperia SP runs older Android 4.1 OS, rather than the latest 4.2 version. The Xperia SP will be sold in Asia and Europe by the end of June, price issues are not mentioned yet. It’s currently unknown if the device will be available in the US market.

Specifications

• 4.6-inch display with 1280 x 720 pixels and 319 ppi
• Corning Gorilla glass
• Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
• 1.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4
• 1GB of RAM
• 8 GB of ROM
• Supports MicroSD card expansion, up to 32 GB
• 8.0 MP camera with auto focus, supports HD video recording (1080p)
• Front-facing camera (VGA)
• Supports Bluetooth 4.0, Wi-Fi, NFC
• Li-Ion 2370 mAh battery

Highlights
Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2. The technology delivers a better viewing experience by adding new real-time contrast optimization to the sharpness enhancement, high-quality color management and noise reduction. It’s also able to analyze content type and adjust the image accordingly.

Battery STAMINA mode. The same feature has been used on Xperia Z. This special mode saves you wasted battery drain by recognizing when your display is off and turning off functions you don’t need, while keeping the notifications you want.

Play PowerPoint on Xperia SP
As a mid-end handset, the Xperia SP is already good enough for entertainments. Thanks to its 4.6-inch display, users can watch 720p movies conveniently. The phone’s 8MP camera helps users shoot HD videos, too. Besides entertainments, people may also do business work with this gadget. Let’s say, how to view PowerPoint on Xperia SP?

As a member of the popular Android affiance, the Xperia SP never lack applications. To play PPT on the phone, users can find and download an Office app from Google Play, such as Documents To Go or Kingsoft Office. However, these mobile apps are quite different from Microsoft’s Office suite on PC. Some PowerPoint effects, like background music, transitions and animations can’t be shown on the phone with Office apps. As a consequence, we recommend an alternative to display PowerPoint on Xperia SP. By converting PowerPoint to Xperia SP suitable videos, users can play these converted videos on the smartphone with PowerPoint effects remained.

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PowerPoint users, if you want to insert an image into a slide without background, what would you do to handle this? Using Pen Tool to remove the background? No. In PowerPoint 2010, there's a more simple tool to remove image background. Let's take a look.

For example, inserting the following Easter themed picture into the PowerPoint.

Step 1 Open or create a document in PowerPoint 2010. Click Insert and select Picture in the toolbar.

Step 2 Click the picture, then choose Picture Tool -> Format -> Remove Background.

Step 3 Under Background Removal tab, click Mark Areas to Keep button to indicate which part of the picture you don't want to remove automatically.

Step 4 Click Keep Changes to confirm and close. Done.

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