Overview

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EMS (Enhanced Messaging Service) is an evolution of the SMS message standard, enhancing the messaging capabilities of the SMS transport with no additional cost to the network providers.The EMS 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 many 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 EMS-enabled handsets. The MercuryXMS™ EMS SDK™ is based on the EMS standards located at ftp://ftp.3gpp.org/Specs and supports the following types of EMS messages:

• Formatted Text
  
  - Alignment (left, center, right, locale-specific)
  - 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

The EMS SDK™ is compatible with GSM Modems and any binary SMS gateway such as SMPP or HTTP.