Sony Ericsson T630, T628 manual MMS Multimedia Messaging Service, Audio, Themes, Mail

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Audio

With the sound recorder function in the T630/T628, it is easy to make a voice recording, for example a personal rendition of “Happy Birthday”. The audio function in the T630/T628 also allows downloading of sounds and melodies.

Themes

With themes, the user can change the appearance of the display, for example the background colours and the background picture. The phone comes with a number of pre-defined pictures, and it is possible to download additional themes. The maxi- mum number of themes is limited only by the amount of memory.

E-mail

With inbox, outbox, save draft and reply options, you have all the functions you need for effective e- mail communication in a powerful mobile phone. Constantly connected to a POP3, SMTP or IMAP4 e-mail server anywhere on the Internet, your T630/ T628 stores messages dynamically, depending on available memory, and updates your inbox auto- matically and over the air. Check your e-mail any- where. Reply to e-mail on the move. Friends, family and business contacts know that when they send you e-mail, you can receive, read and act on it immediately. You can include pictures in outgoing e-mails and receive attachments. Hyperlinks in e- mails are supported.

MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)

One of the key features in the T630/T628 is the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), this is expected to become the preferred messaging method of mobile terminal users, since there are virtually no limits to the content of an MMS trans- mission. An MMS message (also known as a Pic- ture Message) from the T630/T628 can contain text, pictures, graphics, animations, images, audio clips and ring melodies. For third-party developers’ information, please visit the Sony Ericsson Devel- oper World.

Defined and specified by 3GPP as a standard for third generation implementation, MMS completes the potential of messaging. Sending digital post- cards and PowerPoint-style presentations is expected to be among the most popular user appli- cations of MMS. Eagerly awaited by young users in particular, MMS is projected to fuel the growth of related market segments by as much as forty per- cent.

Figure 1. An MMS message can contain images, music, audio and graphics.

Using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) as bearer technology and powered by the high-speed transmission technologies EDGE, GPRS and UMTS (W-CDMA), Multimedia Messaging allows users to send and receive messages that look like Power- Point-style presentations. The messages may include any combination of text, graphics, photo- graphic images, speech and music clips. MMS messaging will serve as the default mode of mes- saging on all terminals, making total content exchange second nature. From utility to sheer fun, it offers benefits at every level and to every kind of user.

12 October 2003