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maumu
Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 03:58 pm:   

Hi. I'm trying to understand how this thing of sending a picture file from a phone to the computer works. I would really appreciate any experts for giving me a brief outline, in very layman terms. It is needed for a school project. Thank you. If possible, emailing is welcome :)
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support (Bryce)
Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 09:42 pm:   

The description at http://www.nowmms.com/HowMMS.htm is pretty good.
Preyal Bavisker
Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 10:00 am:   

hi ,
i'm Preyal.i'm to give a seminar on MMS in my college.I would really like to know what technologies are required and how does this entireidea of MMS works (in brief).I would really be helpful to the experts to give me an outline.
Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support
Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 03:34 am:   

Since the link above is no longer valid, I'll give a brief simplified overview of the process.

Basically, MMS is implemented using a combination of WAP and SMS technologies.

The process of delivering an MMS message to a handset works like this:

1.) It starts with a content file that contains the content of an MMS message. This message may have been created by an application, or it may have been created by a user sending the message from a mobile phone. (When the message is sent from a mobile phone, a mobile phone connects to an MMSC via WAP and transmits the MMS message content to an MMSC and the MMSC then takes responsibility for further delivery.)

2.) The MMS message content is published (usually by an MMSC) so that it is accessible via a URL.

3.) An MMS notification message is sent to the recipient mobile phone, encapsulated in a WAP push message, which itself is encoded as a binary SMS (the WAP protocols define an encoding for WAP push over GSM SMS). This MMS notification message contains header information about the MMS message, and a URL pointer that tells the mobile phone how to retrieve the MMS message content.

4.) The recipient mobile phone opens a WAP session, and retrieves the MMS message content from the URL contained in the MMS notification message.

That's pretty simplified, but that's a good brief overview. In most of the cases above, the WAP sessions are TCP/IP over GPRS (although this is not a requirement).

-bn
Anonymous
Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 02:09 pm:   

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emjenbee
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Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 02:24 am:   

how do mobile phones work
Jen
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Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 02:28 am:   

why does my friend smell like poo? also is it normal if someone does not have nipples? (not myself)