Sony Ericsson T628 Unified messaging, Internet e-mail alerts, Ring signals, News & commercials

Unified messaging

The user typically receives a short message notify- ing them that they have a new message in their uni- fied messaging box, with icons or formatted text further enhancing the message.

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or courier package delivery, using EMS in a retail environment for credit card authorization, remote monitoring of machines for service and mainte- nance purposes.

Internet e-mail alerts

An Internet e-mail alert is provided in the form of a short message that typically details the sender of the e-mail, the subject field and first few words of the e-mail message, and in this case formatted text is excellent to identify message elements.

Ring signals

Downloading ring signals from the Internet

News & commercials

World news illustrated, sports scores and news headlines, finance and stock market news with dia- grams and tickers, commercial product promo- tions, weather reports with maps, tunes from TV commercials as ring signals.

Info & entertainment

Ring signals, e-greetings, football club logo, joke- of-the-day illustrated by pictures or sound, horo- scopes, movie related animation or theme song, TV show promotions, music artist promotions, lottery results, food and drinks pictures and recipes, mood-related pictures.

Corporate

Flight schedules, pre-installed corporate logos, map snippets and travel info, company branded icons and ring signals, corporate e-mail notifica- tions, affinity programmes where companies notify customers of product updates etc., banks notifying customers about new services and interest rates, call centres providing answers to questions about a product, vehicle positioning combining EMS with Global Positioning System (GPS) position informa- tion, job dispatch with delivery addresses for sales

Using WAP, WAP and SMS for download

Already today services exist on the Internet where users can create melodies, and view icons and pic- tures, subscribe to entertainment and informations services. These may develop further in the future to support access via PC over the Internet, from the phone using WAP and even with an SMS request interface.

17 October 2003