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White Paper V600
29 August 2005
Blocking contacts and strangers
Contacts or strangers can be blocked so they can-
not 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 mes-
sages may include any combination of text, graph-
ics, photographic images, speech, music clips and
video. MMS will serve as the default mode of mes-
saging 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.
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 configura-
tion 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.
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 per-
sonal 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.
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 on-site pictures of a construction project
to capturing and storing an interesting design con-
cept for later review.
Editing a picture by adding text allows users to cre-
ate their own electronic postcards, an application
that is expected to substantially cut into the tradi-
tional 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.
Temp lat es
The phone comes with a number of MMS pre-
defined templates, for example templates for birth-
day cards, meeting requests etc.