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Audio
With the sound recorder function in the T610/612, it is
easy to make a voice recording, for example a personal
rendition of “Happy Birthday”. The audio function in the
T610/612 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 maximum number of themes is
limited only by the amount of memory.
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
One of the key features in the T610/612 is the
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), expected to
become the preferred messaging method of mobile
terminal users, since there are virtually no limits to the
content of an MMS transmission. An MMS message
from the T610/612 can contain text, pictures, graphics,
animations, images, audio clips and ring melodies. For
more detailed information, see “Multimedia messaging
service”. For third-party developers’ information, please
visit www.ericsson.com/mobilityworld/ and look for the
MMS Developers’ guidelines.
Defined and specified by 3GPP as a standard for third
generation implementation, MMS completes the
potential of messaging. Sending digital postcards and
PowerPoint-style presentations is expected to be among
the most popular user applications 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 percent.
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 PowerPoint-style
presentations. The messages may include any
combination of text, graphics, photographic images,
speech and music clips. 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.
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 limited only by the memory.
That is why the key word to describe MMS content is
rich. Complete with words, sounds and images, MMS
content is endowed with the user’s ideas, feelings and
personality. An MMS message can contain one or more
of the following:
Text
As with SMS and EMS, an MMS message can consist of
normal text. The text can consist of up to 1000
characters. The main difference between an EMS and
MMS message is that in an MMS message, text can be
accompanied not only by simple pixel images or
melodies but by photographic images, graphics, audio
clips and in the future, video sequences.
F
igure 1. An MMS message can contain images,
m
usic, audio and graphics.