[ 4 ]2 An overview of functions• MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE (MMS)Your phone is able to send and receive multimedia messages made up oftext and pictures. You may also be able to receive polyphonic ringingtones. You can also save pictures and ringing tones to personalize yourphone. See “Multimedia Messages” on page 64 for more information.This feature uses shared memory. Please see “Shared memory” onpage 13 for more information.• POLYPHONIC SOUND (MIDI)Polyphonic sounds are used in ringing tones and message alert tones. Theyconsist of several sound components played at the same time, like anactual melody through a speaker. Your phone has sound components fromover 40 instruments that can be used for polyphonic sounds and thephone can play four instruments simultaneously. The phone supportsScalable Polyphonic MIDI (SP-MIDI) format.You can receive polyphonic ringing tones via multimedia service,(see “Read and reply to a multimedia message” on page 68), ordownload them via the gallery menu, see “Gallery (Menu 7)” on page 105for more information.• GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE (GPRS)GPRS technology allows mobile phones to send and receive dataover a mobile network. Applications such as WAP, MMS, text messaging,and Java TM use GPRS. Your phone supports up to three simultaneous GPRSconnections.For more information on GPRS, see “GPRS” on page 125. Also, consult thePC Connectivity Guide. The PC Connectivity Guide, Nokia PC Suite, and allrelated software can be downloaded from the U.S. Mobile Phone productssection of www.nokia.com.
