Messages; Ems (Enhanced Messaging Service) - Sony Ericsson P900 White Paper

Messages

Messages
The P900 Messages application has integrated support for SMS, EMS, MMS, and E-Mail from a unified UI.
Messages may be addressed using the contacts data and hyperlinks are supported in all message types to
create E-Mails, call telephone numbers and navigate directly to web and WAP pages that are referenced in
the text.

EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service)

Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) adds powerful functionality to the well-known SMS standard. With it,
mobile phone users can add life to SMS text messages in the form of pictures, animations, sound and
formatted text. This gives the users new ways to express feelings, moods and personality in SMS
messages. As well as messaging, users will enjoy collecting and swapping pictures, ring signals, and other
melodies.
EMS uses existing SMS infrastructure and industry standards, keeping investments to a minimum for
operators and providing a familiar user interface and compatibility with existing phones and with other
manufacturers. EMS is part of the 3GPP standards.
An EMS message can be sent to a mobile phone that does not support EMS, or only supports part of EMS.
All the EMS elements i.e. text formatting, pictures, animations and sounds are located in the message
header. The EMS contents will be ignored by a receiving phone that does not support the standard. Only the
text message will be displayed to the receiver. This is true consumer-friendly standardisation. EMS is
compatible to SMS across most of the range of mobile phones from the oldest to the newest.
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SMS (Short Message Service): With SMS a user can send text
messages containing up to 160 characters to and from GSM
mobile stations (up to 70 characters using Chinese text). P900
also provides concatenated SMS, i.e. the user can write a
longer message and the P900 will automatically send it using
more than one SMS.
Over The Air setup messages are held in a special 'Auto
Setup' mailbox
Area information (SMS Cell Broadcast) is a type of text
message sent to subscribers within a network area.
EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service) enables the user to
include graphics, sounds and font attributes as part of a text
message, which can then be sent over the normal GSM/SMS
service. Such messages may also be received and the extra
media objects saved.
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MMS provides true multimedia capability with real pictures,
sound and time-based sequencing.
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The E-Mail client supports POP3 and IMAP4 E-Mail and
multiple accounts may be set up, for example business and
personal. Attachment viewers are included for Microsoft
Word, Excel, PowerPoint
approx. 20 more available from the CD-ROM
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