SplashData, Inc. has announced a significant upgrade to SplashPhoto, its image viewer for Palm OS handhelds. The company said SplashPhoto 3.0 now includes support for high resolution displays (such as the Sony Clie), 12-bit displays (such as the Handspring Treo) and viewing of JPEG images stored on external memory cards.

According to SplashData, SplashPhoto displays digital images on a handheld as thumbnails, full screen images or in a slide show. Images may be cropped, enhanced and installed on the handheld using SplashPhoto Desktop, a desktop image editor for Windows and Mac OS. JPEG images may also be viewed directly from external memory cards, such as the Palm SD/MMC expansion card or Sony Clie Memory Stick. SplashData said SplashPhoto supports virtually all black/white and color Palm OS handhelds from Palm, Handspring, Sony, Kyocera, Samsung and others. Images may be displayed on Low Res (160x160), High Res (320x320) and High Res + (320x480) devices in 16-bit color, 12-bit color, 8-bit color or 4-bit grayscale.

Key Features in SplashPhoto 3.0 include:

-- Support for Sony Clie Hi Res (320x320) and Hi Res + (320x480) displays; and Palm/Handspring Low Res (160x160) displays.
-- Support for 16-bit color, 12-bit color (Handspring Treo 90, 270 and 300; and Palm m130), 8-bit color and 4-bit grayscale.
-- Support for future Palm OS 5.0 ARM-based handhelds and Hi Res (320x320) displays.
-- View JPEG images stored on external memory cards.
-- Support for hardware JPEG acceleration (Sony Clie NR70).
-- Display images as thumbnails, full screen or in a slide show.
-- Auto-run slideshow when handheld is charging.
-- Customizable List View.
-- Conduit installs images directly to external memory.
-- Beam images between handhelds.
-- Desktop image editor (for Windows and Mac OS 9 & X) for cropping, rotating and enhancing images prior to installation on the handheld for viewing with SplashPhoto.
SplashPhoto is normally priced at $19.95, but is available now at a half price introductory offer of $9.95 through Sept. 15, 2002. SplashPhoto may also be purchased in a bundle as part of the SplashWallet Suite, which includes SplashID, SplashMoney, SplashPhoto and SplashShopper for $39.95 (a 50% discount).