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Messages
Composing a multimedia message on the P900
Multimedia messages may be created in FC or, as shown below, in FO mode.
The MMS message is compiled using MIME standards and consists of the following parts:
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One part containing the description of the slides, using MMS SMIL.
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One part containing the actual contents of the slides – text, images and sound.
Receiving a multimedia message
The user can choose to retrieve messages automatically, or just receive notifications of available messages.
In the latter case, the user then manually selects which messages to download. Received messages are
located in the MMS inbox.
Composing a multimedia message is like building a small slide
presentation. A typical slide will consist of a picture and text. Sound
can be added to complete a slide. The user can select background
colour, and the size and colour of text.
The user can set the duration of the slide. The default time is 5
seconds. If a sound or video is added, the slide duration is
automatically set to the duration of the clip if it is longer than the
default time of 5 seconds.
Slides can be chained together to make a sequence. Timing elements
can be added to control the display of images and text within a slide.
The user can preview the message before sending and make any
timing adjustments via the UI. Slide order may also be changed.
Multimedia messages can be created using any suitable media in the
user storage space – including media downloaded from the internet,
synchronised from a PC or created on the P900 itself. Simply tap the
placeholder in the slide template and select the required item.
An Image editor is provided so that images may be modified before
sending. It can also be used to create drawings from scratch. The
available functions are:
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Crop (Select a part of the picture, for example just the cat)
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Rotate
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Pen (Draw on the picture in a choice of colour and thickness)
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Insertion and formatting of text
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Scale (Resize image)
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Undo operations
The pen function enables notes and drawings to be made on images.
These become part of the image and cannot be erased separately
from the image itself. The annotated image (with pen) is saved
separately and sent with the message, leaving the original image
unmarked.
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