Matador,
<< EMS will not see the light of the day. >>
New life being breathed into EMS ...
... recently standardized by 3GPP2 for 1xRTT so EMS will be Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig. <g>
Made "The Buck" VERY happy. <ggg>
He still hasn't commented on Samsung licensing Nokia Series 60 "Dumb Messaging" yet.
>> Now CDMA adopts EMS - the Enhanced Messaging standard is selected by 3GPP2
Simon Buckingham
Mobile Streams
20 July 2001
In a momentous step, last week the CDMA world in the form of the 3GPP2 standards body adopted the Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) standards that were originally developed by the 3GPP. The 3GPP took over from ETSI in setting standards for the GSM/ W-CDMA/ UMTS world, whereas the 3GPP2 is the equivalent standards body for the CDMA/ cdma2000 world.
The implications are that EMS content and services such as ringtones and picture messages will be available on CDMA phones as well as GSM ones. Sources have told Mobile Streams that getting EMS implemented within TDMA standards will be a struggle. Nokia has implemented its proprietary Smart messaging alternative to Enhanced messaging on its GSM phones and TDMA phones, leaving the total mobile market fragmented between the EMS and smart messaging protocols.
This latest news is another sign of the growing momentum behind the EMS standards. In the past few weeks, the first EMS phones have started to ship in markets such as Italy, the UK and Singapore (the Ericsson T20e), Alcatel, Ericsson, Siemens and Motorola have all publicly committed to EMS and version 5 of the EMS standards was agreed which added great features like sophisticated (polyphonic) ringtones, support for a wide range of colors and sounds and many other features.
Nokia’s smart messaging, which does not include these features or other EMS features such as animated messages, is starting to look more and more like "dumb messaging". Not wanting to repeat the mistake it made supporting HSCSD rather than GPRS in the high speed data space, Nokia will surely wish to adopt EMS rather than spend more time updating its own Smart Messaging protocol. Nokia cannot afford to be late with MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) devices so it is likely to focus on that. As well as leading the EMS world, Ericsson is already leading the MMS world with plans for its T68 phone. It can surely only be a question of time before Nokia adopt EMS- the company is surely smart enough to recognize a brilliant advance in features and functionality over what it can offer. <<
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