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White Paper

 

14

January 2003

Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) adds new 
powerful functionality to the well-known SMS 
standard. With it, mobile phone users can add life 
to SMS text messaging 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 and ring signals and other 
melodies, downloading them from the Internet or 
editing them directly on the phone.

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 gives the user the ability to send and receive 
sounds. These can be pre-defined sounds, such as 
“Chime high” and “Notify”, or melodies (ring 
signals in the phone), downloaded from the 
Internet, received in SMS messages or composed 
by the user on the phone keypad or a PC.

Several sounds and melodies can be inserted in 
one message, and they can be combined with 
pictures.

Phones supporting EMS include a set of pre-
defined pictures for inserting in SMS messages. 
New pictures and animations are downloaded from 

the Internet or received in SMS messages. Several 
pictures can be inserted in one message, and they 
can be combined with sounds and melodies. The 
users can format text in messages with different 
styles and sizes.

A part of the EMS standard is the support for 
concatenated messages, which means that the 
phone is able to automatically combine several 
messages both when creating and receiving EMS. 
This is useful to be able to build and display 
messages with rich content since the amount of 
information in each SMS is limited by the SMS 
standards.

The EMS standard is now a part of the SMS 
standard and supported by the major network 
operators and mobile phone manufacturers. This 
universal approach enables a fast penetration and 
development of new services and applications 
within messaging.

Users will be inspired to create and swap their own 
melodies and pictures. But more importantly, 
professional content creators and providers are 

already preparing to offer imaginative and creative 
contents for use with EMS. Based on 
subscriptions, fees or ads, network operators will 
be able to provide wide ranges of ring signals, 
operator logos and corporate icons, as well as 
personal and mood-related pictures and melodies. 
Movie, music and game companies can promote 
new products and events with designer melodies, 
animations and pictures.