Video and audio messaging
Sep 23, 2009 Cellphones
Am pretty sure all of us know what picture messaging is? But have you heard about video and audio messaging? I didn’t know this stuff until my hubby got a new phone a month ago. I’m supposed to blog about this the day he got his new phone but as usual, I lacked the time to update this blog and talk about it. As what I’m saying, my hubby got his new Nokia 5310 Xpress Music last month. He decided to renew his contract at T-mobile and I forced him to get a new phone. He doesn’t usually like T-mobile’s phone because according to him carriers usually change the feature of the original phone. He doesn’t like the t-zone at all or any propaganda of the carrier. As long as there’s a WI-FI feature included on the mobile, he’s fine with it.
The Nokia 5310 Xpress Music has the ability to send video messaging. This is some how a new feature in today’s mobile phone. I’ve never seen any phone before that uses this kind of feature. Yes, you can send your video or audio using any smartphone but you must have INTERNET DATA PLAN or EMAIL to do so. MMS is way too different from EMAIL.
Multimedia Messaging Service or MMS, is a telecommunications standard for sending messages that include multimedia objects (images, audio, video, rich text). MMS is an extension of the SMS standard, allowing longer message lengths and using WAP to display the content. Its most popular use is sending photographs from camera-equipped handsets, although it is also popular as a method of delivering ringtones as well. The standard is developed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), although during development it was part of the 3GPP and WAP groups. – WIKIpedia.
As for myself, I find MMS cheaper. Imagine this you can send pictures, video, audio or any multimedia objects in the same rate as text message or SMS. That means if your mobile phone has a MMS feature you don’t necessarily need to have an internet data plan or EMAIL plan in your phone. Like our own line, we have unlimited text plan and I have no internet data plan but I can still send photos, videos and emails to any online social networking websites like Facebook, Flickr, Multiply and even in a blog platform like Blogger. Although, some other countries offer different price rates for MMS like in my home country, Philipines. All cellular companies in the Philippines offer MMS in a bit higher rate than SMS. MMS cost Php5.00 per send while regular text is Php1.00. Oh, by the way, I’ve heard that SMS rates in the Philippine will drop the rate of inter-network SMS down by half. Is that true?
I wonder why there are still a lot of people who do not know what MMS really is especially people here in the US. By the way, for complete review of Nokie 5310 click here.
Tags: MMS, nokia 5310, nokia xpress music, SMS
