How to View PowerPoint on All Symbian Devices

Only 2 or 3 years ago, the framework in the mobile phone market is totally different from today. The iOS, Android, Windows Mobile Phone were all piece of cake, only the Symbian was the true king for mobile market. With the popularity of the new generation Smartphones with the iPhone and Android Smartphones like HTC and Samsung as the representatives, the iOS and Android surely have become the most welcomed platforms. Symbian has been left behind, so was Nokia who insists on the Symbian platform.

In fact Symbian was created by merging and integrating software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Sony Ericsson and Symbian Ltd. But now, when we talk about Symbian, we know it is on Nokia mobile phones. Unlike iPhone or Android Smartphones who have millions of useful apps for assistant, Symbian system fails. We can view PowerPoint on iPhone and Android Smartphone like HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy S2 using the Office apps, then what about Symbian?

There are few Office apps for Symbian like Quickoffice, but it only works for latest Symbian devices, for the older versions, you still can’t play PowerPoint. In order to play PowerPoint on Symbian, we need to convert the PPT to other formats. Let’s first take a look at what formats are supported by all Symbian devices.

1. Image
Image is supported universally, not only for Symbian, but also for other phones. So we can view PowerPoint on all Symbian as images.


Notice:

A. Create a separate folder for each PowerPoint file so that they won’t mix up.

B. Rename the slide according to numbers so that the output pictures will be in order.

2. Video

All phones support some kinds of video formats. In the past the most common video formats for phones are 3GP or 3G2 due to the limited storage. But now the internal storage has expanded greatly to 8BB – 32GB, so the best video format for Smartphones has changed to MP4. MP4 could storage high-definition videos in quite small size. How to convert PowerPoint to MP4? You can use a PowerPoint to video converter like Moyea PPT to Video Converter http://www.dvd-ppt-slideshow.com/ppt-to-video/ to convert your powerpoint file to video format directly.

After imported PowerPoint files to the program, you should choose an output video format for Symbian devices, take MP4 for example. Then you can further adjust the MP4 video parameters like video codec, bit rate, and video size and quality. Al last, start the conversion.

The two methods above enable you to view PowerPoint on all Symbian devices. However, when saving PowerPoint as images, all the original elements like transitions, animations, music and videos will be removed. To view PowerPoint on Symbian with all the original effects, saving PowerPoint to video is the best choice for now.