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Friday, January 7, 2011

Picture Message Creator

OTA(Picture Messages)Bitmap is a specification designed by Nokia for black and white images for mobile phones.

Picture Messages(.ota or .otb files)
The Over The Air(OTA)Bitmap was defined by Nokia Corporation as part of their Smart Messaging Specification, to send pictures as a series of one or more concatenated SMS text messages. The format has a maximum size of 255x255 pixels. It is very rare for an OTA bitmap to measure anything other than 72x28 pixels (for Picture Messages).

Basic format description
This format is the Copyright of Nokia Corporation. The OTA Bitmap format is a monochrome, uncompressed format using one bit per pixel. As the format was designed for cellular phones, there is no standard computer format. It may be stored as a binary file or as hex (usually without spaces) in a text file. Recognized extension is .ota | .otb.

Creation Of OTA files
It is possible to create Picture Messages Manually.For creating picture messages OTA Creator File is being used.This creates ota file which can be sent to mobile phone from PC by using USB Cable/Bluetooth.

About Picture Message Creator
It has OTA File Creator.
Instructions for using the software :

  • Draw your favorite image in pixel size of not more than 72x28 pixels.
  • Open the OTA file Creator.
  • Drag your own image in the rectangle box of creator software.
  • Then Press the "Convert" Button.
  • The xxx.ota is now generated in the current path/directory..
Screenshots of the Software :





Enjoy Creating Your Own Picture Messages..

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