Sending Pictures

[Bexxybex123]

What requirements does a mobile phone need to send/receive picture/video messages? And also, what does GPRS mean/do? Thanks x

[nigidivitch]

Well, GPRS stands for General Packet Radio Service.  It's simply a way maintaining a constant connection to the internet I think.  Regarding requirements of a mobile phone to send/receive mms and video mms, I'd say that GPRS is pretty necessary (or at least an internet conection), along with software (and a powerful enough processor) that tells the phone what to send, how to send it, and where it needs to go!

[Hammer]

And you'll need to make sure that your provider has it enabled on your account - not as easy as it sounds if you are with the one named after a fruit, took me four calls to customer services before they finally sorted it out!

[nigidivitch]

Good point Hammer - had a similarly fruity experience!  Think they have it a bit more sorted now as it used to be case that you couldn't send mms cross network, but that's fixed now!

[Bexxybex123]

Ok, so what's it called when you can send a picture message by like holding two phones together? Is that infra-red?

[nigidivitch]

Essentially that would be called "data-transfer" - depending on the phone, you could send it using either infrared, bluetooth, or wifi. 
Hope that helps!