Multimedia messages enable you to share special life moments with friends, family, and work colleagues.

For example, you can send pictures of your party to those who could not make it and let the images speak for themselves!

The Nokia 6170 phone supports the following ways of messaging:

• SMS messages to send simple text messages
• Multimedia messages to make your messages live with pictures and presentations
• E-mail allows you to access your e-mail account
• Chat for spontaneous and fast communication

A multimedia message can contain text, sound, a picture, a calendar note, a business card, or a video clip. If the message is larger than 100 kB in size, the phone may not be able to receive it. Some networks support text messages that include an Internet address where you can view the multimedia message.

Multimedia messaging may support the following formats:

• Picture: JPEG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, OTA-BMP and PNG
• Sound: scalable polyphonic MIDI (SP-MIDI), AMR audio, MP3/AAC and monophonic ringing tones
• Video clip: 3GP format (H.263 baseline and MPEG-4 simple profile)