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Media Object Timing 
Timing of individual media objects must be within the overall slide time except for audio. This 
provides plenty of flexibility and greatly reduces the complexity of building a presentation. 
 
The user may add text, an image and a sound clip to each slide. The timing of each within the 
slide can be adjusted. The default timings are as follows: 
 
 
Object type  Start Point  
(Seconds from start of slide) Default Duration 
(Seconds) 
Text 0  5 seconds 
Image 0  5 seconds 
Animation  0  Duration of animation 
Audio  0  Duration of audio clip 
No Content  0  5 seconds 
 
The user is not allowed to shorten the duration of a slide such that any media item would be 
truncated, meaning that the minimum duration of a slide is never less than the duration of the 
longest object within it. 
 
The following example helps explain P800 timing behaviour: 
 
 
 
   
The user creates a new message using the 
Blank template. An image and some text is 
added. Both of these are set to last 5 seconds, 
which is the default duration of a slide A 4-second audio clip is now added. The 
duration of the slide is now set to the duration of 
the clip and the display time of the image and 
text objects is shortened too. 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
						

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The user may shorten slide duration to less than 
the duration of the audio track. If there is audio 
on the next slide, the audio will be stopped and 
the track for the next slide will be played. 
 
If there is no audio on the next slide, the audio 
track will continue playing until it finishes or a 
later slide is displayed which has its own audio 
track. 
 
If Page time is un-checked, then the display 
time for the text can be set to shorter than the 
page duration.  
Special case where audio can continue playing 
after the end of a slide. 
Templates 
A template is a predefined message containing one or more slides. It may be modified by the 
user to quickly produce an attractive message. The Blank template is the default – in this case 
nothing is pre-selected and the user may create slides as required. 
 
Users may store a favourite message as a template. Templates can also be deleted. 
 
The P800 comes with 8 pre-defined templates, all of which have sound and an animated image 
(GIF format, 160 x 120 pixels). These and other useful content pre-loaded by Sony Ericsson are 
described in ‘Personalisation and Customisation’ later in this document. 
Notification and download 
Incoming multimedia messages are normally notified to the user as soon as they arrive, in the 
same way as text messages. Basic download options are: 
• On – always download the message 
• 
Home only – messages are downloaded only when connected to the home network. 
• 
Off – download messages manually. 
 
Additionally, filters may be set, based on: 
• 
Message size 
• Message class (Advertisement, Information)  
• 
Anonymous sender (exclude messages from senders not listed in Contacts, or where 
sender information has been hidden) 
Interoperability and Conformance 
MMS is a very flexible and extendable specification. To help mobile operators launch MMS 
services that are consistent and reliable, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Siemens, CMG, 
Comverse and Logica have worked together to produce a Conformance Specification (‘MMS 
Conformance Document V2.0.0’). This provides additional guidelines that are intended to make 
sure that messages sent between different products are played back correctly. 
 
The main areas covered by the specification are: 
• 
Picture formats (JPEG/JFIF, GIF, WBMP) and size (160 x 120 pixels) 
• Sound format (AMR) 
• 
Slide layout (2 objects plus sound, layout is the same for all slides) 
• SMIL subset (all timing elements are within a slide) 
• Maximum message size of 30kbytes 
  
						

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The P800 has much greater capability than that stated above. The user may therefore choose 
between two conformance modes: Standard and None. The setting may be found in Control 
Panel, Messaging accounts, MMS, Advanced. Standard mode is useful when sending messages 
to smaller MMS-capable phones. 
 
In Standard mode, the user may select any media items, but will be warned if the selection falls 
outside of the standard. For example: 
• 
Selection of a VGA (640 x 480) sized image will result in the warning “Recipient may not 
support this image size” being displayed. The user can choose to continue composing 
the MMS message, or select a different image. The image can be reduced to 160 x 120 
pixels by taking it into the editor. 
• If the message is greater than 30kbytes in size the warning “Recipient may not support 
this size of message” will be displayed 
 
When ‘None’ is selected, no warnings are displayed. 
 
When non-conformant messages are received, they will be displayed within the capability of the 
SMIL player. If the message is edited, objects may only be saved. If the message is saved as a 
template or forwarded then objects can be deleted or changed and new slides can be added.
 
Media Object Summary 
The table below shows the media standards supported by MMS on the P800. 
 
  Conformance 
Mode 
Standard Media 
Type Standard None 
US-ASCII (IANA MIBEnum 3)  Text  Y  Y 
UTF-8 (IANA MIBEnum 100)  Text  Y  Y 
UTF-16 (IANA MIBEnum 1000) with explicit 
BOM (Byte Order Mark) Text Y Y 
UCS-2 ISO/IEC 10646  Text    Y 
AMR Audio Y Y 
AU Audio  Y 
IMelody Audio  Y 
MIDI Audio  Y 
RMF Audio  Y 
WAV Audio  Y 
JPEG/JFIF Image Y Y 
GIF-87a Image Y Y 
GIF-89a (spec includes animated)  Image  GIF89  Y 
WBMP Image Y Y 
BMP Image  Y 
PNG Image  Y 
 
The MMS player will render all of the above formats. The display window for images is 200 x 120 
pixels in FC mode and 200 x 200 pixels in FO mode. These are the optimal sizes for images 
where MMS messages are composed specifically for the P800. Incoming images larger than this 
will be re-scaled to fit within the window, preserving aspect ratio. 
 
 
  
						

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Composing a multimedia message 
Multimedia messages may be created in FC or, as shown below, in FO mode. 
 
 Composing an multimedia message is like building a small slide 
presentation. A typical slide will consist of a picture, some text 
and a sound. Text and sound can be added to complete a slide. 
 
The user can set the duration of the slide. If a sound is added, 
the slide duration is set to the duration of the sound clip. 
 
Slides can be chained together to make a sequence. Timing 
elements can be added to control the display of images and 
text within a slide. The user can preview the message before 
sending and make any timing adjustments via the UI. Slide 
order may also be changed. 
 
Multimedia messages can be created using any suitable media 
in the user storage space – including media downloaded from 
the internet, synchronised from a PC or created on the P800 
itself. Simply tap the placeholder in the slide template and 
select the required item. 
 
 An image editor is provided so that images may be modified 
before sending. The available functions are: 
• Crop (Select a part of the picture, for example just the 
cat) 
• Rotate  
• 
Pen (Draw on the picture in a choice of colour and 
thickness) 
• 
Scale (Resize image) 
• Undo and Undo All operations 
 
The pen function enables notes and drawings to be made on 
images. These become part of the image and cannot be erased 
separately from the image itself. The annotated image (with 
pen) is saved separately and sent with the message, leaving 
the original image unmarked. 
 
The MMS message is compiled using MIME standards and consists of the following parts: 
• One part containing the description of the slides, using MMS SMIL. 
• 
One part containing the actual contents of the slides – text, images and sound. 
  
						

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Receiving a multimedia message 
Incoming MMS messages typically arrive just like SMS messages – automatic delivery with 
notification to the user. Messages are located in the MMS Inbox.  
 
 
 
 
 
  
FC playback of a multimedia message 
  
FO playback 
 
 
Receiving a multimedia message on other terminals 
Interoperability is dependent upon the capability of the receiving terminal and the MMS server in 
the mobile network. Here are some examples.  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Sony Ericsson T68i is enhanced with MMS, 
enabling multimedia messages to be exchanged 
with excellent compatibility. A mobile without MMS may be sent the text 
by SMS together with a URL which enables 
the picture and message to be seen via the 
WAP browser. 
 
Hi Paul, here are my 
contact details as 
requested! Hope to speak 
to you soon. 
 
Full message at 
http://www.myoperator.co
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MMS technical features 
The MMS standard, just like SMS, offers store and forward transmission (instant delivery) of 
messages, rather than a mailbox-type model. MMS is a person-to-person communications 
solution, meaning that the user gets the message directly into the mobile. He or she doesn’t have 
to call the server to get the message downloaded to the mobile. GPRS enables a continuous 
connection and rapid transfer of data. 
 
Architecture 
The P800 communicates with the WAP Gateway using WAP transport protocols. That data is 
transported between the WAP Gateway and the MMS Relay using HTTP protocol. 
 
The MMS Relay is at the centre of an MMS system. The MMS-C is primarily a message store. In 
some implementations the MMS-C is combined with the MMS Relay. The MMS Relay is linked to 
other MMS-Relays in order to forward MMS messages to external networks. The MMS relay can 
also send an MMS over e-mail using the SMTP protocol over the internet. The Relay can also 
format messages as SMS and send them via the SMS-C, enabling users of non-MMS terminals 
to receive MMS messages and view the text as SMS and the whole message via Web or WAP. 
 
 
Example Usage Cases 
User A will address a multimedia message to user B’s mobile number (MS-ISDN). The completed message 
will be sent via the WAP Gateway to the MMS-Relay. The MMS-Relay will store the message at the MMS-C 
and send a notification to User B’s T68i. The T68i will retrieve the message (depending on user settings) 
and the user will be able to read it from the MMS Inbox. 
 
If User A sends an MMS to a user on a different network, the MMS-Relay will forward the message to the 
correct MMS-Relay in the target network (assuming interconnect agreements are in place) and the message 
will be stored in the MMS-C in the target network. It will be retrieved and read by the recipient’s mobile 
phone in the same way. 
 
If User A sends an MMS to an e-mail address, the MMS-Relay will package the contents and use SMTP to 
send the message as an e-mail over the internet. 
 
 
  
						

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Message conversion 
The MMS-C is able to perform limited message conversion - for example, from MMS to SMS – so 
that processing and air time is not wasted in sending messages to mobile terminals that do not 
have adequate capability to receive them. It also handles service aspects such as store and 
forward, guaranteed delivery, subscriber preferences, operator constraints, and billing 
information. The MMS-C also vouches for high quality messaging, e.g. by format conversion. This 
means that the MMS-C recognizes which formats are supported in the mobile phone, and adapts 
the MMS messages to these formats. The WAP User Agent Profile (UAProf) is used to 
communicate the handset’s capabilities to the MMS server. These features depend on the 
configuration of the MMS servers and will therefore be operator-dependent.  
 
OTA configuration 
Users can easily get MMS into their phone. MMS is configurable via OTA, meaning that the user 
does not have to configure the settings manually. The configuration is done by the operator. 
 
 
E-Mail 
P800 E-Mail Features 
The P800 E-Mail client supports the following standards: 
 
POP3  Post Office Protocol 3  POP is used to copy, move and delete messages 
from an incoming mail server in the network 
IMAP4 Internet Message Access 
Protocol IMAP is also used to copy, move and delete 
messages from an incoming mail server. IMAP has 
more features than POP, but the P800 behaves in 
the same manner whichever is used. 
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail 
Extension MIME is a protocol describing data, for example to 
define the attachments included in an e-mail. 
  
These standards are supported by most Internet Service Providers and many corporate 
environments.  Any number of E-Mail accounts may be set up – a typical configuration will be one 
business and one personal account. OTA configuration of E-Mail and ISP accounts is supported. 
E-Mail accounts and associated ISP accounts may be remotely configured over the air. 
 
Built-in password generators from RSA Security and Secure Computing and make it possible for 
the P800 to connect corporate networks which use these popular access controls, so allowing 
corporate e-mail to be used.  
 
When connected via GPRS, automatic polling can be used so that E-Mail is automatically 
collected and presented in the Inbox. Controls are provided to filter messages based on size, 
enabling cost and download time to be managed. Another option enables only e-mail headers to 
be presented in the inbox. Headers are quick to download. The user may read and select 
headers and request the message to be downloaded. 
 
Attachments may be viewed using the built-in viewers for Microsoft
®  Word, Excel, PowerPoint® 
and Adobe® Acrobat® (PDF).  More viewers may be loaded from the supplied CD-ROM. See 
Viewer section for more information. 
 
A signature may be set up so that essential details are automatically copied to the end of each 
outgoing E-Mail. 
 
The supplied PC Suite for P800 enables E-Mail to be synchronised with Microsoft
® Outlook® and 
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corresponding ‘Synchronised e-mail account’ inbox on the P800.  Messages and replies written 
using this account on the P800 are transferred and sent via the PC. 
 
Web and WAP based E-Mail can, of course, be accessed using the P800’s browser. 
 
Technical Explanation of E-Mail 
Configuring and using the E-Mail client in Messages is very straightforward in most cases, 
especially where the e-mail service is provided by the mobile operator. Reading e-mail from third-
party ISP services will normally work over GPRS with no problems. Sending e-mail may require 
some special configuration, however. This section provides a basic explanation of the end-to-end 
path involved in an e-mail transaction and some of the issues that may be encountered when 
using GPRS. Note that all examples refer to a POP server, but equally apply to an IMAP server. 
 
A more detailed explanation of GSM and GPRS is given in the chapter ‘Technical Explanation of 
CSD, HSCSD and GPRS’ later in this document. 
 
A common PC solution is to connect to the internet using a modem and a circuit-switch call over 
the public telephone network. In the diagram below, User B’s laptop PC uses this method to 
connect to the internet using Internet Service Provide ISP B. 
 
 
 
User B has an e-mail address [email protected]
 and communicates with the POP server at ISP B to 
receive mail and uses the SMTP server at ISP B to send mail. Note that these servers are inside 
the ISP’s facility and that a firewall exists between the ISP and the internet itself. 
 
When [email protected]
 sends an e-mail to [email protected], the e-mail client on User B’s laptop will 
connect to the SMTP server and ISP B, which will in turn connect over the internet to the POP 
server at ISP-A and transfer the message. The e-mail will be stored here until User A connects to 
retrieve waiting messages. 
 
User A has a P800 and therefore several different ways of connecting to the internet: 
1.  Using CSD/HSCSD to an ISP service offered by the network operator or a third party 
2.  Using GPRS to connect to an e-mail service offered by the network operator 
3.  Using GPRS to connect to an e-mail service offered by a third party 
  
						

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In case (1) User A will connect using a circuit –switched call in much the same way as User B. A 
circuit-switch call will be established from the Interworking Centre (IWC) at the mobile operator to 
the modem bank at ISP-A. The P800 Messages application will perform a ‘Get&Send’ operation. 
Messages will access the POP server at ISP A and collect waiting messages. 
 
If User A now replies to the message and selected ‘Send Now’ on the P800 whilst connected to 
internet, the Messages application will connect to the SMTP server at ISP A, which will in turn 
connect to the POP server at ISP B and the message will be transferred. 
 
In Case (2) everything happens as in case (1) except that the connection to the ISP is made 
directly from the GSM/GPRS network using TCP/IP networking rather than modems. Because 
everything is managed by the mobile operator, the POP and SMTP servers can be made 
available. 
 
In case (3) the P800 will be connected to the internet via the GSM/GPRS network and the route 
to the servers is over the internet. Most ISPs allow a connection from the internet to the POP 
server since access to the POP server is password-controlled. In other words, the firewall at ISP 
A will allow the connection from the P800 Messages application to the POP server to be made. 
The P800 will therefore be able to collect mail over GPRS. 
 
Sending e-mail requires access to the SMTP server. The ISP will have configured the SMTP 
server to behave differently when the user is accessing it from the internet. This is done as a 
precaution against it being used to send spam (unwanted e-mail).  E-mail send is therefore likely 
to fail when connected over GPRS and trying to use the third party ISP settings for SMTP. 
 
Typical configurations include: 
• 
Block all external access to the SMTP Server 
• 
SMTP server works provided the sender address is in a domain belonging to the ISP. 
• SMTP server works provided the recipient is in a domain belonging to the ISP. 
• 
SMTP server works only after a successful login has been made to an associated POP 
server. 
• 
SMTP server requires a username and password 
 
There are a number of possible workarounds: 
• 
Switch to an e-mail service offered by the mobile operator 
• Check if the SMTP server can be accessed in ‘Secure Mode’ using a password. 
• 
Find out if the mobile operator has an SMTP server configured to work where the sender 
e-mail address belongs to a different domain. 
• 
Try checking the mail on the POP server and then sending – some ISPs will allow access 
to the SMTP server from a user who has recently successfully logged in to the POP sever 
• 
Ask the ISP to allow external access from the IP number range used by the mobile 
operator’s GPRS service 
• Connect to the ISP using CSD or HSCSD when e-mail needs to be sent 
E-Mail Fetch and Delete Operation 
The P800 is designed to work both as the only means of accessing e-mail and to work together 
with a PC which accesses the same e-mail account. It is useful to explain how each case works. 
 
Basic Operation 
The P800 Messages application fetches e-mail from the POP server using the COPY method. 
This means that each e-mail is copied from the sever and therefore two copies exist, one at the 
server and one in the P800 e-mail inbox. 
 
When a message in the P800 inbox is deleted, the P800 will delete it from the server the next 
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In the above example, there are 6 waiting e-mails on the POP server when the P800 does the 
first Get&Send for the mail account. After the Get&Send all 6 e-mails are copied to the P800 
inbox (header only or body, depending on advanced settings). The user then deletes messages 2 
and 5. After the second Get&Send, messages 2 and 5 have also gone from the POP server. 
 
If the P800 discovers during a Get&Send that a message has been deleted from the server, for 
example by another e-mail client, then it will also be deleted from the P800 inbox. 
 
Sent messages are stored in the P800. Sent e-mails will need to be deleted as required to free up 
storage space. 
 
E-Mail account accessed only by the P800 
The P800 e-mail inbox will stay synchronised with the POP mailbox at the ISP. The action of 
tidying up the P800 inbox will automatically tidy the POP server inbox upon the next Get&Send 
operation for the e-mail account in question. 
 
E-Mail account accessed by the P800 and another device 
A common configuration is to use the P800 to access e-mail whilst on the move, but to maintain a 
master copy of e-mail on a PC. 
 
The E-Mail client on the PC must be set to copy from the server. For example, in Microsoft 
Outlook Express this is done by selecting Tools, Accounts, Properties, Advanced tab and tick 
‘Leave a copy of messages on server’ 
 
All messages will now be received at both the P800 and the PC. 
 
From time to time it will be necessary to delete messages on the P800 in order to create free 
storage. Before doing this, ensure that the PC has already collected the messages that will be 
deleted on the P800.  
  
E-Mail account accessed by the P800 and another device – Alternative 
If the P800 is only used for reading mail when away from the PC and it is not required to retain 
any mail on the P800 after it has been copied to the PC then this alternative may be preferred. 
 
Leave the PC e-mail client on the default setting of MOVE messages from the server (i.e. do not 
leave a copy of the message on the server). In this case the behaviour will be as follows: 
 
1.  PC Sends and receives e-mail before leaving the office. 
2.  P800 inbox will be emptied if ‘Get&Send’ is performed immediately after the PC 
3.  New messages through the day will be received on the P800 
4.  Upon return to the office, a Send and Receive on the PC will collect the day’s messages, 
minus any that were deleted on the P800. 
5.  P800 inbox will emptied if ‘Get&Send’ is performed immediately after the PC 
 
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