On Thu, 31 May 2001, Funk Jeffrey Lee wrote:
> The enclosed article says that Alcatel, Motorola, Ericsson, and Siemens are
> developing an enhanced SMS technology so that users can download ringing
> tones, screen savers, and images using SMS. This sounds like Europe is
> aiming for some of the same applications that have been so popular with
We have been doing this for a couple of years allready, so
it is nothing new. Actually the ringingtones and icons are
the only profitable m-business in europe at the moment.
All of this has been quite Nokia centric though. And the
technology is not as sophisticated as with Japanese handsets.
The graphics are only 1 bit black and white imagese and the
ringingtones are just different buzzer sounds.
I don't know why, but I could guess that the reason that
no other handset maker has been implementint Nokia's
Smart Messaging Specification is huge licence fees. I also
could guess that this is the reason to develop a new more open
standard. How open it is, time will tell.
God bless corporate Ameri^H^H^H^H^HEurope.
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Received on Thu May 31 10:37:00 2001