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Blocking contacts and strangers
Contacts or strangers can be blocked so they cannot view a user’s status or send messages to the user.
Online contact alert
Users can select to be notified when a contact comes online. The notification is indicated by an icon and a sound.
MMS
Multimedia Messaging uses WAP or HTTP as bearer technology which also can be powered by the transmission technology GPRS.
This allows users to send and receive messages that look like Power Point presentations. The messages may include any combination of text, graph- ics, photographic images, speech, music clips and video. MMS will serve as the default mode of messaging 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.
Audio
MMS provides the ability to send and receive full sound messages. Not only can users share a favourite song or music tone with a friend, they can also use the mobile phone to record a sound and send it along with a message. As sound includes speech as well as music, this extra dimension to MMS allows for a spontaneous and immediate personal expression in communication messaging. Rather than sending a downloaded birthday jingle in EMS, a user can, for example, send a clip of his or her own personal rendition of “Happy Birthday”. The phone supports the MIDI format.
Over the air (OTA) configuration
Users can easily get MMS into their phone. MMS supports OTA, meaning that the user does not have to configure the settings manually. The configuration is done by the operator via OTA.
Note: The specification is in accordance with Erics- son Nokia OTA configuration v7.1.
MMS objects
Although MMS is a direct descendant of SMS, the difference in content is dramatic. The size of an average SMS message is about 140 bytes, while the maximum size of an MMS message is 300 kB. The key word to describe MMS content is rich, complete with words, sounds and images, MMS content is endowed with the user’s ideas. An MMS message can contain one or more of the following:
Text
As with SMS and EMS (Enhanced Messaging Serv- ice), an MMS message can consist of normal text. The length of the text is limited to 5000 characters.
Pictures and video clips
By using the integrated camera, users can take a picture or video clip and immediately send it to a recipient. Mobile picture transmission also offers inestimable utility in business applications, from sending
Editing a picture by adding text allows users to create their own electronic postcards, an application that is expected to substantially cut into the traditional postcard market.
PIM communication with MMS
By using MMS, it is easy to handle PIM (Personal Information Manager) information. The user can send and receive business cards (vCard), calendar entries such as appointments (vCal) and notes.
Templates
The phone comes with a number of MMS predefined templates, for example templates for birthday cards, meeting requests etc.
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