A middle eastern company, Aabee.net, claimed they will launch an application for Series60 and UIQ to submit photos via SMS, not MMS.
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Color Message via SMS ( not MMS)
It would be mighty expensive, because the only way they can do that is to compress and encode the photos into characters allowed by the SMS standard, then send them as several/multiple SMS messages (one message can only carry 160 characters or 70 Unicode encoded characters, UCS-2). And you cannot compress any photo to 160 bytes/characters. Most photos will probably require tens of SMS messages (if not hunderds or thousands), which makes it easily prohibitively expensive.
The receiving side would then also have to have the corresponding software to be able to decode such SMS messages.
Of course, the app could just put the images on a web or WAP server, and send a link to it as SMS (like many operators do with MMS, if they can't deliver the MMS).
In such a case the receiver doesn't need a separate client, but they must have a browser configured to access the net (site where the image really resides).
Done in any other way (unless I'm just too unimaginative), they would be breaking the SMS specification/standard and possibly also require an entirely new/non-standard SMS message center (hard to convince operators to use one, and set up roaming between operators/countries), when existing solutions are already there.
Other than that, it is simpler to just use MMS or email where things already work.
In any case, understanding what's really behind this (if it is just not a scam) would be interesting to learn.
MMS in reality an advanced form of SMS.
When you send an MMS you upload it to an MMMC and they then send a formatted SMS to the other phone cotaining download instructions of where to retrieve the message. The other phone then just downloads it via GPRS.