Messaging

Are you interested in developing Messaging applications and services? With Nokia, Multimedia Messaging and Short Messaging can offer attractive commercial opportunities and increased revenue.

Messaging

Short Messaging
Information about the established messaging solution.

Multimedia Messaging
Information about the evolutionary multimedia communication.

Discussion
This is the place where developers from around the world exchange ideas on Nokia's Messaging-related issues.

In the Spotlight

Getting Started with MMS
This guide provides developers with an introduction to using Multimedia Message Service (MMS) technology.

Getting started with MMS Tools
A practical point of view for MMS tools and how to work with them. The document guides you with a step-by-step example how to create, send, and receive a message using MMS tools offered by Forum Nokia. The document also briefly explains what each MMS tool can be used for.

Introduction to Messaging

Messaging in wireless networks

Nokia's messaging approach is based upon a series of evolutionary steps. Text messaging has been enabled by Short Message Service (SMS), Picture Messaging brought along graphics, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) now enables digital image input.

The Short Message Service (SMS) is used as one bearer of Smart Messaging. Smart Messaging is a concept developed by Nokia for sending and receiving ring tones, picture messages, operator logos, business cards, and calendar requests. Since its introduction in 1997, Smart Messaging has become one of the most successful terminal-specific content delivery technologies and the de facto standard for the industry. Hundreds of millions of Nokia phones with this innovative feature have been delivered to the global market.

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a new multiform communication that combines new forms of rich content, such as audio and video clips, photographs, and images, with text messaging. It is good news for service providers since the existing text-based services can now start carrying rich visual content. We believe that MMS will be a key mass-market service for content providers, mobile operators, application developers, and advertisers.

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