What can you send with MMS?

Hello, I'm a complete newbie with mobile/cellular phones and I was
wondering what you can send via MMS. Is it unlimited, i.e. you can send
any file format to any phone, or are there restrictions?

Looking around I read that networks and/or phones incorporate
restrictions in order to make customers pay for ring tones etc., or is
this outdated information?

I realise you can do this with WAP etc., but I'm specifically interested
in MMS and how it can be used to transfer files. The reason I've posted
here is because I have recently bought a K300, so I thought it was as
good a place as any.



Thanks,



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Jeffrey Spoon

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The Wikipedia is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multime...saging_Service

;-)


Regards,
Evert



Jeffrey Spoon wrote:
>
>
> Hello, I'm a complete newbie with mobile/cellular phones and I was
> wondering what you can send via MMS. Is it unlimited, i.e. you can send
> any file format to any phone, or are there restrictions?
>
> Looking around I read that networks and/or phones incorporate
> restrictions in order to make customers pay for ring tones etc., or is
> this outdated information?
>
> I realise you can do this with WAP etc., but I'm specifically interested
> in MMS and how it can be used to transfer files. The reason I've posted
> here is because I have recently bought a K300, so I thought it was as
> good a place as any.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>

In message <[email protected]>, Evert Meulie
<[email protected]> writes
>The Wikipedia is your friend:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multime...saging_Service
>
>;-)

Yeah thanks, I've read this already. I suppose I should have asked how
useful MMS is in practice, rather than what you can do with it. I
noticed for example that the Ericsson phones have ports reserved for
ring tones, and was wondering why that is, considering you can just send
them via MMS.

The underlying question I'm trying to get at is why P2P hasn't really
taken off using mobiles, specifically using the SMS or MMS protocols. Is
it simply the limited bandwidth and memory of current phones, or the
expense? Or are there limitations set by networks or phone manufacturers
to protect content, such as preventing certain files from being simply
sent via MMS from one phone to another. Most ring tones etc. seem to be
downloaded at high cost via premium numbers or simply downloaded via
synchronisation from a PC, the latter not being very practical.




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Jeffrey Spoon

Thus spake Jeffrey Spoon:
<Snipped>
> The underlying question I'm trying to get at is why P2P hasn't really
> taken off using mobiles, specifically using the SMS or MMS protocols.
> Is it simply the limited bandwidth and memory of current phones, or
> the expense? Or are there limitations set by networks or phone
> manufacturers to protect content, such as preventing certain files
> from being simply sent via MMS from one phone to another. Most ring
> tones etc. seem to be downloaded at high cost via premium numbers or
> simply downloaded via synchronisation from a PC, the latter not being
> very practical.

There's a fairly fine line between cynicism & realism

IMO, it's more to do with revenue protection than anything else. Ring tones
are big business. When told that SE's K800 was customised (read neutered) by
Vodafone, I just walked away (it's also a brick & ugly to boot) 'cos some
functions like using your own MP3 ringtones were disabled on many previous
Vodafonised models - you had to pay to d/l them! It's not surprising that
Bluetooth took so long to take off in certain regions!

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Basically, I hate people who preface nearly every sentence with the word
'basically'!