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Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services: SMS, EMS and MMS

Building on the success of the first edition, Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services offers extensive new and revised material based upon the latest research and industry developments. While early implementations targeted person-to-person messaging, MMS has now evolved to facilitate such requirements as the mass delivery of time-sensitive messages for content-to-person messaging. This Second Edition exploits the technical maturity of MMS as it is poised to generate a wealth of new business opportunities across the mobile communications sector. The author provides the fundamental technical background required for SMS, EMS and MMS, and supports this with industry cutting-edge developments.
? Contains a revised section on the fundamentals of MMS, including an updated section on GPRS to explain current commercial implementations such as GRX applications.
? Presents the latest developments in MMS standardization, including the design of synchronized multimedia integration language (SMIL) presentations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), transcoding techniques, postcard service and support of advanced multimedia formats.
? Describes the processes for standardizing telecommunications services and technologies (3GPP, OMA, GSM Association, IETF and W3C).
? Provides updated sections on SMS, EMS and heavily revised coverage of the developments in MMS, including MMS interworking and the forthcoming MMS version 1.3.
This resource will be invaluable for application developers, manufacturers, operators and content providers involved in the design and deployment of messaging services. It will also be of interest to practitioners involved in the process of standardizing telecommunications services and technologies. Postgraduate students and researchers will benefit from having access to state-of-the-art findings backed by numerous illustrative real-world examples.
Includes a companion website featuring information on relevant standards, available phones and developers’ resources.

This was part of the final few days for Status building on Church street, Gainsborough. The building opened in 1974 and was owned by British Telecom Pension Fund and leased to Status Kitchens. The top floor was subleased to Gordon Ellory who had a furniture and carpets business down Lord Street at the White Lion Yard.

They had the upper floor for carpets and bedding originally. Later Status kitckens and decorating pulled out of the building , leaving Ellorys with the full site to themselves. Carpets were moved downstairs and a D.I.Y store filled the remaining space.

In the 70's and 80's I don't think you would find many houses in the area that had not been improved by something from this store.

We see in the photo the remains of a fire that sadly claimed the life of one fireman. This was I believe in 1991 when it was leased by Paul Eyre Carpets.

Ellorys had struggled on for several years with the Pension Fund raising the rent yearly. Eventually the only way out of the 99 year lease was to declare bankruptcy. Paul Eyre took over in 1986 if memory serves me right.

Over in the top right we can see Co-Op petrol station and in the foreground Texaco.

Comments as always are welcome.

Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
Announced 2010.01.03
Status Available
Dimensions 114 * 56 * 16 mm
Weight 140 g
Display Type -
Display Size 3.2 - inch touch screen
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (64 chords)
Vibration Yes
Phonebook 2000
Call records -
Card slot microSD (TransFlash)
Internal Memory -
Connectivity WiFi, Bluetooth

Data Transfer
USB cable /U disc /Bluetooth (voice, stereo)
OS -
Messaging SMS, MMS
Processor -
User Profiles
General, Meeting, Outdoor, Indoor, Headset, Bluetooth
Camera
Dual cameras
0.3 MP front camera
1.3 MP back camera
Voice record
Video record
Games Yes

Support Mutil-Language interfaces
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Thai, Greek

Additional Features
Video / Sound Recorder
Video / Audio player
Facebook, Yamee, Ebuddy
Google, PDF view
Alarm, World clock
Calendar, Health
Calculator, Stopwatch
Unit / Currency converter
Bluetooth
Flight mode
Battery Li-ion battery
Package Contains :
1 x china mobile phone
1 x earphone
1 x cable
1 x charger
2 x battery
1 x Chinese / English manual

Contributions from Finn Trosby, Kevin Holley, Ian Harris
Written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of SMS standardization by the people who produced the standards, Short Message Service (SMS): The Creation of Personal Text Messaging, describes the development of the SMS standard and its ongoing evolution. The standardization of SMS started in February 1985 as a part of the creation of the second generation digital cellular system GSM, and the 25th anniversary of the first work on SMS provides an opportunity to review and understand how this service was developed. The book also looks to the future, as a large number of new GSM and evolved GSM phones will support SMS as a mass market high availability messaging service, a new simple Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) suitable for use by everyone and for implementation in every new terminal is proposed.
One of the only books which covers the complete SMS genesis from concept ideas to standardization of a first technical solution and its evolution to the present day.
Describes the service concept including the limitation of the message length to 160 characters and explains the rationale behind the concept.
Based on existing and newly retrieved documentation.
Concludes that SMS has a long future since most future GSM phones will support SMS as the only messaging service, and so an SMS evolution is put forward.