Multimedia messages
Note: This function can be used only if it is supported by your network operator or service provider. Only
phones that offer multimedia message features can receive and display multimedia messages.
A multimedia message can contain text, picture and sound. The phone supports multimedia messages
of size up to 45 kB. If that maximum size is exceeded, the phone may not be able to receive or send the
message. Depending on the network, you may receive a text message including an Internet address
where you can view the multimedia message.
If the message contains a picture, the phone scales them down to fit the display area.
Note: If
Allow multimedia reception
is set to
Yes
or
In home network
, your operator or service provider may
charge you for every message you receive.
Multimedia messaging supports the following formats:
• Picture: JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP.
• Sound: Scalable Polyphonic MIDI (SP-MIDI) and monophonic ringing tones.
If the received message contains any unsupported elements, they may be replaced with the file name
and the text
Object format not supported
.
Note that you are not able to receive any multimedia messages if you have a call in progress, a game or
another Java application running, or an active service connection over GSM data (see Keying in the
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service settings manually on page 97). Because delivery of multimedia messages can fail for a variety
of reasons, do not rely solely upon them for essential communications.