White Paper T630/T628
17 October 2003
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.
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
or courier package delivery, using EMS in a retail
environment for credit card authorization, remote
monitoring of machines for service and mainte-
nance purposes.
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.