Written by: Joel Askelöf, Charilaos Christopoulos, Mathias Larsson Carlander and Fredrik Öijer

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Ericsson constantly conducts worldwide consumer research to find out what kinds of application consumers want and how they want to use them. Besides making phone calls, imaging and messaging are on the tops of consumers’ wish lists for future mobile applications. Until now, imaging has mostly consisted of images and graphics that are displayed on Web pages. But because imaging will become a natural part of mobile services, image flow and digital-imaging requirements will change. This article briefly discusses third-generation-imaging services, including multimedia messaging services, which is perhaps one of the most important services. It also discusses some requirements being put on new imaging applications and formats, and describes JPEG2000—the newly finalized ISO/IEC standard.
[First published in Ericsson Review no. 02, 2001]