MMS Introduction
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is an extension of Short Message Service SMS, a text-only messaging system which has been in use for mobile networks, MMS extends text messaging to include longer text, graphics, photos, audio clips, video clips, or any combination of the above, within certain size limits.
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) was defined by 3GPP and the WAP forum in order to meet the ever increasing use demands of multimedia it is to be supported by 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks.
MMS allows the exchange of multimedia messages in the context of person to person messaging and machine to person scenario MMS is frequently used to send photos and videos from camera phones to other MMS phones or email accounts.
In comparison with SMS and EMS messages, a message in MMS environment is composed of truly multimedia elements. This includes the possibility of composing, multimedia messages as slide shows, presentations
With MMS a user is able to compose and send a message to Internet mail as well and similarly he can receive message sent from Internet mail hosts. MMS is not the same as e-mail. MMS is based on the concept of multimedia messaging. The presentation of the message is coded into the presentation file so that the images, sounds and text are displayed in a preset order as one singular message. Moreover MMS does not support attachments as e-mail does.
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