User's Manual

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The EMS standard
Enhanced Messaging Service
The GM825 has a new function making it possible to enrich and make
conventional SMS text messages more interesting and appealing.
EMS technology makes it possible to include sounds, images and
animations in the messages, which will then be reproduced by the
recipient's mobile phone (if enabled for this standard).
Default images and animations, already stored in the phone,
are immediately available for sending to other terminals.
Some of them are transmitted as true information packs (so they take up a
certain number of characters available for the message) and are reproduced
by the recipient's phone exactly as the send sees them (except, obviously, for
any differences between the displays of different phones).
Images and animations of this kind, received via EMS, can be saved in the
phone's memory and afterwards sent with other messages.
Whereas, for some animations, only the code representing them gets
transmitted (e.g., moods such as joy, anger, happiness, love), which activates
the display of the corresponding image on the recipient's phone; therefore,
each model of mobile phone will display them differently, depending on how
the manufacturer has interpreted the spirit of the message.
In this way, the message is not weighed down by transmitting a true animation,
since it remains in the phone and is displayed at the command of the EMS
received.
Note: EMS technology is a development of the conventional SMS, of
which it keeps all the features. This manual therefore uses the term EMS
to explain the meaning, even though the phone keeps the conventional
term of SMS.