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Article: Testing MMS functionality in mobile phones: thorough and accurate Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) testing is critical to the successful deployment of any mobile phone offering a MMS capability.(Cover story)
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- Wireless Design & Development
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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Over the years, the mobile-phone usage model has changed quite dramatically. No longer is it used solely for its voice services. Instead, the mobile phone is now being used for a growing number of social and mobile, data-centric applications. In fact, in the past 10 years alone, the phone's Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging capability has become increasingly popular. Today, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) has further captured the consumer's attention with its ability to add pictures, music, images, graphics, and even ringtones to the original SMS text messaging capability.
As the popularity of MMS messaging rises, it will be incumbent on mobile-phone ...