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White Paper T290i/T290c
12 October 2004
Multimedia in the T290i/T290c
The T290i/T290c is a multimedia phone. The colour
display together with the audio functionality gives
the user several multimedia possibilities. For exam
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ple, sounds can be recorded and stored. By using
themes, it is easy to change the appearance of the
display. Pictures, audio, animations and themes
can be transmitted via MMS.
Graphics
Graphics (tables, charts, diagrams and layouts)
have a major impact on the way we work. The
T290i/T290c supports JPG (max 640x480), GIF
(max 160x120), WBMP (max 320x320) and ani
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mated GIFs.
You can set a picture to appear as the background
when you are in standby mode.
Audio
The user of the T290i/T290c can use the mobile
phone as a sound recorder. With the sound
recorder function, it is easy to make a voice record
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ing, for example a personal rendition of “Happy
Birthday”. The audio function in the T290i/T290c
also allows downloading of sounds and melodies.
Pictures
With a digital camera attached to your T290i/
T290c, you can take, view and store pictures. It is
also possible to download colour pictures to your
T290i/T290c. The pictures are stored in the picture
browser in the phone. From here, the user can
select view, thumbnail or full view, as well as keep
track of the number and size of the pictures stored
in the phone.
The pictures stored in your T290i/T290c can be
used for creating your own digital postcards. This
is easily done by adding text to the pictures and
sending them via MMS.
Themes
With themes, the user can change the appearance
of the display, for example the text, the background
colours and the background picture. The phone
comes with a number of pre-defined themes, and it
is possible to download additional themes. The
maximum number of themes is limited only by the
amount of memory.
Image formats
For information on Image formats and downloading
of images, see
“Image format technical data” on
page 61 and “Images – downloading to phone” on
page 62.
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
One of the key features in the T290i/T290c is the
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). MMS is
expected to become the preferred messaging
method of mobile terminal users, since there are
virtually no limits to the content of an MMS trans
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mission. An MMS message from the T290i/T290c
can contain text, graphics, animations, images,
audio clips and ring melodies. For more detailed
information, see
“Multimedia Messaging Service”
on page 51. For third-party developers’ informa-
tion, please visit www.Ericsson.com/mobility-
world/ 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 post
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cards and PowerPoint-style presentations is
expected to be among the most popular user appli
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cations of MMS. Eagerly awaited by young users in