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T300/T302
White Paper, August 2002
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Audio
MMS provides the ability to send and receive full
sound (iMelody, MIDI and AMR) messages. Not
only can users share a favourite song ot 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 and themes
By using either a digital camera attached to the
T300/T302 with a cable, or a snap-on camera
accessory, users can take a snapshot and
immediately send it to a recipient. The ability to
send pictures is one of the most exciting
attributes of MMS, as it allows users to share
meaningful moments with friends, family and
colleagues.
Mobile picture transmission also offers
inestimable utility in business applications, from
sending on-site pictures of a construction project
to capturing and storing an interesting design
concept for later review. 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-sending market.
Themes (downloaded or pre-defined) can be
exchanged via MMS.
SMIL presentations
SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia
Integration Language and is pronounced “smile”.
SMIL in the T300/T302 allows the user to the
create and transmit PowerPoint-style
presentations on the mobile device. SMIL is an
advanced XML-based protocol, and Sony
Ericsson MMS supports a subset of this
protocol. Using a simple media editor, users can
incorporate audio and animated GIFs along with
still images, animations and text to assemble full
multimedia presentations.
The idea of SMIL is to allow the user to
customize the page timing in Powerpoint-style
presentations. The user can decide in which
order the image and text will be displayed, as
well as for how long the images and text lines are
to be shown in the display
PIM communication with MMS
With MMS in the T300/T302, it is easy to send
and receive business cards and events.
Business card (vCard)
With MMS in the T300/T302, the user can send
his/her business card.
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Benefits
Essentially enabling the mobile terminal to serve
as image processor and conveyor, Multimedia
Messaging accommodates the exchange of
important visual information as readily as it
facilitates fun. Business and leisure usage of
MMS will be dynamically merged, resulting in
enhanced personal efficiency for users and
increased network activity for operators. In short,
MMS affords total usage for total communication
Because MMS uses WAP as its bearer
technology and is being standardized by 3GPP, it
has wide industry support and offers full
interoperability, which is a major benefit to
service providers and end users. Ease-of-use
resulting from both the gradual steps of the
messaging evolution and the continuity of user
experience gained from interoperability is
assured.
Figure 2. Example of the creation of an MMS
message.