That won't work (GSM phone on a CDMA network). The only other national US carrier is T-Mobile. Do any of the smaller carriers use GSM?
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AT&T Announces iPhone MMS Launch Date: September 25
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That won't work (GSM phone on a CDMA network). The only other national US carrier is T-Mobile. Do any of the smaller carriers use GSM?
I cant wait for the MMS commercials to start rolling out
they are going to feature that MMS is innovative on the iPhone
Well that sucks for me I own a 2G iPhone but i seriously don't care that's why i use e-mail instead
cant wait for my contract to end on November so i can Fully Unlock my phone and use it on another carrier
they are going to feature that MMS is innovative on the iPhone
Well that sucks for me I own a 2G iPhone but i seriously don't care that's why i use e-mail instead
cant wait for my contract to end on November so i can Fully Unlock my phone and use it on another carrier
MMS is great, but not if I still have 'No Service'
Hey AT&T, Can you please fix your network so I can make phone calls and access the 3G network? I get 'No service' at my new address... and when i emailed you, you said I was lying. When is the iPhone coming to Verizon? Hurry, Please...
Hey AT&T, Can you please fix your network so I can make phone calls and access the 3G network? I get 'No service' at my new address... and when i emailed you, you said I was lying. When is the iPhone coming to Verizon? Hurry, Please...
i think i'm going to call up and tell them I'll pay my bill by the end of summer and see how that goes.
I haven't read through all the comments, but does anyone find this whole "MMS will choke the system" argument to be idiotic? MMS is going to account for so much less data than normal web usage does now.. I can't believe they've taken so long.
...peanut?
And yes, I realize I'm in the minority here, but I've got a phone that's getting 1/9 of what AT&T's network is theoretically capable of and 1/18 of what the phone is capable of. So you'll excuse me if I'm not thrilled that AT&T is about to introduce a service that chokes that bandwidth even further (let's see if we can get back to EDGE speeds so I can just give up and turn off the 3G entirely! that'll be fun!)
Because a majority of my friends do not have smartphones, and occasionally send me a picture of something interesting or funny, which never makes it to my phone, nor does a notification. ViewMyMessage.com hasn't worked since I got my 3Gs, so people are sending me messages that I'm not getting and wondering why I don't respond.
I haven't read through all the comments, but does anyone find this whole "MMS will choke the system" argument to be idiotic? MMS is going to account for so much less data than normal web usage does now.. I can't believe they've taken so long.
Yes, but MMS is not going to replace normal web usage, it's going to supplement it. It's just added strain on an already badly strained network. Moreover, while most people think of MMS as just sending a pic you took with your phone's camera, it could be used to send other image, audio, or video files, and those are not small amounts of data.
Funny but my response would be ...
Dear Delusional, try it and let us know how that works out for you.
Avoid ETF ?
Me: I purchased an iPhone 3GS knowing that I would be able to send MMS by the end of the summer, but I still don't have it.
AT&T rep : We will be rolling out MMS on 25th September.
ME: Oh, summer ends on Sept 22nd. I would like to cancel my contract then.....
Anyone with me on this ?
Me: I purchased an iPhone 3GS knowing that I would be able to send MMS by the end of the summer, but I still don't have it.
AT&T rep : We will be rolling out MMS on 25th September.
ME: Oh, summer ends on Sept 22nd. I would like to cancel my contract then.....
Anyone with me on this ?
Because they have nothing better to do with their time then bitch about AT&T, tethering, MMS, smudges on their phones, Apple's app store, etc.
Wow...missed their own deadline how funny is that? We've been working for years to give you a service that's been available for years to people who pay less money than you do for service.....
Excellent. Stupid wait for a basic service available on some of the cheapest non-smartphones in the universe but ok.
I hate to say this, but he does kind of have a point. The contract is a 2 way street.
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Not that it would have helped me much out west in the US. I don't know about anyone else, but the 3G/Edge data service in Las Vegas, NV was absolutely atrocious! Though voice service seemed ok, and I always had indication of strong signals, I was lucky if I could send or receive data 1/4 of the time I spent there recently on vacation.
By the way, 2 different, 3G family iPhones both exhibited the exact same awful data services out there. The phones worked fine back home here in New England.
It seems to me AT&T has a long way to go before they can be touted as a serious data network provider.
Whether he has a point or not I seriously think it's stupid to take 3 days and figure you're going to run with it. This is similar to saying a cup of hot coffee burned your mouth and you're damaged by the millions.
Frankly there is a date, it will be here, and hopefully that makes these people **** about it.
Wait until it is out and it fails ... at least then you'll have something to whine about.
Cool, but I almost wish they just did it w/out giving any warning. Every couple days I would think "Maybe if I check now it'll be on," knowing that eventually I'd be pleasently surprised. Now we know we have to wait 3 weeks for this to happen.
MMS isn't even that big of a deal to me (I could probably count on both hands how many pix messages I've sent in my cell phone-using life), but now the wait is gonna have me twitching...
MMS isn't even that big of a deal to me (I could probably count on both hands how many pix messages I've sent in my cell phone-using life), but now the wait is gonna have me twitching...
Didnt say I agreed with him. However, I can see there being many people with this mindset, and it is somewhat justified. If they say late summer, you paid for a phone to have that by late summer, and it is not summer when it gets released, that is false advertising.