MMS and Streaming Video
It happens several times a week. One of the most
frequently asked questions that we get asked is
whether or not the Now SMS/MMS Gateway can
support streaming video in MMS messages.
The answer to this question is often complicated by
the fact that people often use the term "streaming
video" when they're not really sure what it means. In
order to answer the question, we typically have to ask
other questions about what exactly they mean
by "streaming video".
Often the user is just asking about the MMS features
that they saw in a recent television commercial, where
someone was sending a video message to their mum for
Mother's Day.
Ten second video clips are interesting, but they're not
quite streaming video. In this posting to the NowSMS
Discussion Board, Bryce explains how video works in
MMS today, and how streaming video will work with
MMS in the future (when there are phones that support
it). He also gives some quick pointers on how some
phones can support streaming video today, just not in
the MMS client.
Find out more....
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Dear NowSMS Customer,
Recent issues of our newsletter have focused primarily
on new features of v5.50 of the Now SMS/MMS
Gateway such as OMA Digital Rights Management
(DRM), WAP Push Access Protocol (PAP) and MMS over
CDMA. (If you are interested in viewing past issues of
our newsletter, please visit the "Newsletter" link from
the NowSMS homepage.)
In this issue, we are going to highlight some of the
recent postings to the NowSMS Discussion Board,
where there is always a mix of interesting discussions
regarding mobile technologies, as well as some
advanced tips on using the NowSMS product.
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| 2-way SMS: PHP Examples | | | One of the most practical applications of NowSMS is
the "2-way SMS" feature. "2-way SMS" simply refers
to the ability both send and receive SMS messages.
When NowSMS receives an SMS message, it can be
configured to launch different applications to process
the received message (via an HTTP request to a PHP,
Perl, ASP or other type of web scripting language, or to
an executable command). 2-way SMS commands can process the received
messages to update or query a database, optionally
return a response back to the sender, or trigger
various other actions. The following link provides some
good information on troubleshooting the setup of 2-
way SMS, and also includes links to some of the best 2-
way examples that we have, with a specific focus on
using PHP. Read on... | | |
| Sending SMS Messages to J2ME Apps | | | As more and more Java applications get deployed on
mobile phones, one of the most natural application
needs is the ability to send SMS messages to an
application and have the application take some action
based upon the content of the SMS message. However, while J2ME will let an application receive
messages, it will not let the application interact directly
with the phone's inbox. Instead, applications only
receive messages that were addressed to their specific
port number. In this discussion board posting, Bryce
works with developers who are trying to use NowSMS
to send SMS messages to their applications. Full Story | | |
| MM1 Proxy | | | A customer contacted us recently with an interesting
requirement. They were using another vendor's WAP
gateway and MMSC. Similar to the Now SMS/MMS
Gateway, the other vendor's MMSC is licensed based
upon a messages per second licensing. However, unlike the Now MMSC, which accepts all
submitted messages, and simply throttles/queues
messages for delivery based upon the license limits ...
apparently, this MMSC rejects messages if its limits are
exceeded. As a simple example, the MMSC could be
idle all day, and then if 2 users try to submit a message
within the same second, the MMSC will reject one of
the messages. As you can imagine, this type of
behaviour is almost impossible to plan for and control. Read about the solution ... | | |
| Working GSM Phones & Modems | | | What GSM phones and modems are supported by
NowSMS? It's impossible for us to purchase all of the available
phones and modems on the market today. But you can
help others (and us) by letting us know what devices
you are using with NowSMS in the following discussion
thread. Link to the thread ... | | |
| E-mail to SMS and MMS | | | NowSMS has a considerable amount of flexibility for
routing messages between e-mail and SMS or MMS.
However, the configuration can be somewhat complex
because of controls that are implemented to make sure
that users do not inadvertantly setup a potentially
expensive open SMTP to SMS or MMS relay. The following thread on our discussion board provides
configuration guidance for e-mail to SMS and MMS
configurations with NowSMS. Read more ... | | |
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