P800/P802
White Paper, January 2003
An MMS message can contain one or more of the following:
Text
Much larger amounts of text can be used in MMS messages when compared with SMS. Thousands of characters can be included in a message.
Audio
MMS provides the ability to send and receive recorded audio and polyphonic sounds in messages. Not only can users share a favourite song or ring signal with a friend, they can also use the mobile phone to record sound and send it along with a message. Because sound includes speech as well as music, this extra dimension of an MMS message makes for enhanced immediacy of expression and communication. Rather than sending a downloaded birthday jingle in EMS, for example, a user can send a clip of his or her own personal rendition of “Happy Birthday”.
Pictures
With the
Mobile picture transmission also offers inestimable utility in business applications, from sending
The P800 supports the following image formats for MMS: GIF (including animated), JPEG, PNG, WBMP and BMP. Images may also be edited during message creation.
Video
The P800 can play MPEG4 video clips attached to MMS messages. They are opened as an attachment and played in the Video Player. Note that the MMS message is closed and control is transferred to the Video Player.
PIM Objects
With MMS in the P800, it is easy to send and receive business cards (vCard), Calendar and Tasks entries (vCal) and Jotter notes (text content is added to a slide). Received PIM objects are listed under the ‘Attachments’ tab.
SMIL presentations
SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language and is pronounced “smile”. SMIL in the P800 allows the user to the create and transmit
The P800 has an implementation of SMIL 2.0 Basic Profile. Messages created by the P800 use a subset of SMIL as defined in the Conformance Specification (see below).
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