Characteristics of MMS
- Multimedia Service: The main characteristic or feature of MMS is to send and receive multimedia content that is audio, video, or photos.
- More Characters: Including Multimedia, also allows more characters that are larger than 160 characters allowed in SMS.
- Group messaging: MMS also allows users to send messages to multiple recipients at the same time, making it easy to share multimedia content with friends, family, or colleagues. We may sometimes need to send one similar text to a large number of people in our contacts.
- Delivery reports: Some multimedia services provide a feature to check if the text you want to send has been sent, delivered, or read by the receiver (Read receipts) or not.
- Support for different file types: Imagine you need to change every pdf into jpg before sending, it may seem easy for one but what about everyday texts? But MMS comes to the rescue, MMS messages support a range of file types, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, MP3, and MP4, making it easy to share different types of multimedia content.
- Cost: It can be more expensive than SMS.
- File compression: To reduce the file size of multimedia content, MMS messaging apps often compress files, which can result in a loss of quality. However, some apps allow users to adjust the compression settings to maintain higher quality.
MMS Full Form
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is an extended form of SMS (Short Message Service). Where SMS only includes text messages(160 characters) but MMS also allows images, videos, and audio with up to 1600 characters of text.
The basic requirement to send one MMS is that both sender and receiver must have a mobile device that is MMS enabled So that they are able to view images and videos and listen to audio received.