Because some devices aren't MMS compatible, service providers sometimes build in a feature that alerts a user when he or she has received a multimedia message.

Cloud texting is a method of sending electronic text and multimedia messages to and from multiple devices with cloud computing connectivity.

Devices that transmit multimedia messages can contain speech but also images and sounds that describe states of affairs with a richness not found before.

The folding phone features color screens on the inside and outside of the handset and can send and receive multimedia messages containing text, photos and sound.

In either case, you must create your multimedia message first, then send it to the appropriate e-mail address.

Mxit allows users to send and receive one-on-one text and multimedia messages to and from other users, and in general chat rooms.

There he developed a series of standards so the various electronic mail systems could exchange multimedia messages in a common way.

An "unlimited" mobile phone package for €19.99 with calls included to 40 countries, texts, multimedia messages and internet.

For another $10, Cingular's Media Works gives 5 megabytes, 1,000 text messages and unlimited multimedia messages.

Today, multimedia messages carrying photos, animation or music files can only be exchanged with someone who has the same kind of cellphone over the same network.