EMS is an evolution of the SMS message standard, providing enhanced
messaging capabilities of the SMS transport with no addition cost to the
network providers.
The EMS (Enhanced Message Service) standard has been established and
ratified by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).
EMS was originally developed by Ericsson, but the EMS standard is now
officially supported by Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens, Alcatel, Sagem and
others. It is anstandard and designed to be interoperable with all
handset platforms.
There are several handsets now available on the market that support EMS
and have been for quite some time. Check out the web sites of companies like
Sony-Ericsson,
Motorola,
Siemens and
Alcatel for details
of their handsets that support EMS.
The ActiveXMS Mobile Messaging SDK (EMS Edition) is based on the EMS standards located at
ftp://ftp.3gpp.org/Specs.
The ActiveXMS Mobile Messaging SDK, EMS Edition supports the following types of
EMS messages:
Formatted Text
- Alignment (left, center, right, foreign support)
- Font Size (Normal, Large, Default)
- Style (Italic, Bold, Underline, Strikethrough
- Foreground, Background coloring
- Concatenation of large text messages
Pictures
- 16 x 16 pixel
- 32 x 32 pixel
- Custom size (through UPI - not supported by all handsets)
Animations
- Predefined (Ironic, Glad, Sceptic, Sad, Wow, Crying, etc)
- User defined: 4 frames of 8x8 or 16x16 images
Sounds
- Predefined (Chimes high, low, ta da, notify, claps, drum, etc)
Melodies
- iMelody format monophonic ringtones
Message Concatenation
- Up to 255 messages
- UPI for large pictures and melodies
