What does MMS mean?

MMS is the abbreviation of (Multimedia Message Service), which means multimedia short message service in Chinese. Its biggest feature is that it supports multimedia functions. Multimedia information makes the transmission of content and information have comprehensive functions, including multimedia information such as images, audio information, video information, data and text, and can support various high-speed data services such as voice, Internet browsing, e-mail, conference TV and so on. With the support of GPRS network and WAP wireless application protocol as the carrier, video clips, pictures, sounds and texts are transmitted. Multimedia message service can realize instant multimedia information transmission from mobile phone end to end, from mobile phone terminal to Internet or from Internet to mobile phone terminal.

MMS information is compressed in a standard way, so the receiver can confirm the content format it does not support and process it in a controlled way. This is also a method to solve the problem of Internet content interaction.

The media types supported by MMS standard are: JPEG, GIF, text, AMR voice and other non-mainstream formats. In order to get better interactivity, Nokia and other manufacturers have drafted a "MMS conformance document", which lists the minimum set of content types that MMS phones can support.

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