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AT&T Activates MMS Functionality for U.S. iPhone Users
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I was thinking the same thing. My network has enabled MMS since the iphoneos 3.0 betas and I havent ever felt the urge to use it. it's just an overpriced hack compared to sending higher quality photos/videos/sounds via email. i can believe people are spazing out over such a mediocre addition to the iphone
I can think of two reasons it matters, one less important than the other.
1) Other people use it and try to send you pictures. Obviously they could send it to your email address on most networks. They could even use email often. But they don't know this and I'm not interested in retraining every single person out there just so they can feel happy they sent me one stupid picture of a bag of cats.
2) It's technology that has been standard on basically every other cellular phone available for nearly 10 years. It fills in a gap that overly self-conscious phone owners have been embarrassed about since the release of the iPhone.
You know, it's only an advantage to have yet another potential vector for communication in your pocket. Nobody's forcing you to initiate these messages but at least now, if someone insists, you have the choice to use it and that's a good thing.
I just got off the phone with AT&T. They echoed what everyone else on here is saying. The network is clogged with millions of MMS. They are still working to expand the network so it can handle the traffic and it should be fixed by Monday. I can receive MMS but I can't send them. I get the red !. That is normal according to AT&T with the high traffic at the moment.
I didnt say it was a bad addition, nor that it shouldnt have been added. all I stated was that the celebration surrounding the addition of such of an uninteresting feature is amazing.
if it had been a feature since day 1 (as many will argue it should have) no one would have batted an eyelid over it.
This is the main reason I'm taking multiple photos and sending as MMS messages. I want them to understand some capacity planning for a change.
You're the second person who's posted this. I'm not sure why, because I have 3.1, and Exchange sync works fine for me. What am I missing? What supposedly doesn't work?
That's why I don't support Jail-breaking whenever there's a feature added update you always got to wait for someone to crack the newer version but you gotta wait with no estimated time frame. If it was meant to be it would be easier to work with.
I live in NYC and to be honest it's going great! I've Been sending pictures to everyone in my contacts just because I can. Lol
And It works with other phones NOT just people with iPhones.
Thanks Apple . . . DON'T SCREW THIS UP FOR ME AT&T
And It works with other phones NOT just people with iPhones.
Thanks Apple
. . . DON'T SCREW THIS UP FOR ME AT&T I know they do, then why are they whining?! You hacked ur phone for more functionality and then hacked it to MMS. Why want for the "official" MMS?
And by that they mean little babies like below will be done being a baby and the little kids with a new toy will be board of it by Monday so they know MMS will go back down to about the same as normal.
thanks it ass like you that screw it up for everyone else flooding the system with MMS because they can. When the real problem with this traces back to APPLE for failing to deliver MMS on day 1.
It people like you with a new toy the flood the system that screw it up for the rest of us. My sister (non iPhone users) wanted to send me a MMS on my blackberry today and the system was flooded with iPhone MMS.
I honestly kind of hope AT&T did a smart thing and shoved all iPhone users off to there own private servers so when/if they crashed the system they are only screwing over other iPhone users who abusing the system and playing with there shiny new toy that should of been on there phone over 2 years ago.
Well, its taking me about 6-7 minutes to send a picture. I cannot see how anyone thought MMS was going to be better than email, it is dog slow. I send the same picture over email, and yes over 3G as well, and it's quick.
Can't imagine trying a video.
Can't imagine trying a video.
Surely this should be page 99 news?
AT&T get MMS!!
Not very news worthy. Shows how prehistoric compared to the rest of the world they actually are.
Yep, AT&T crumble under a few MBs of messages! What utter crap.
AT&T are *****.
Canada isn't much better since iPhone users have to bend over and take it from Robbers ( aka Rogers ).
$25 for 500MB - rip off.
AT&T get MMS!!
Not very news worthy. Shows how prehistoric compared to the rest of the world they actually are.
Yep, AT&T crumble under a few MBs of messages! What utter crap.
AT&T are *****.
Canada isn't much better since iPhone users have to bend over and take it from Robbers ( aka Rogers ).
$25 for 500MB - rip off.
My 1st gen iPhone is still going strong but sadly no MMS.
I was at the AT&T store today and of course the idiot working there said I would be able to update my 1st gen iphone to allow MMS. I asked him multiple ways and he was persistent that it would work.... of course he was wrong!!! idiots!!
Network capacity problems do NOT trace back to when Apple enabled the feature (which, in turn, was long before AT&T did).
I'm actually glad the first iPhone users had to use email: I consider it a good habit
I'm also glad to have more options (which I hope to never use). And I blame AT&T for their network's failings (MMS and otherwise) but I also know that ANY other (US) carrier would also have had serious problems with iPhone network usage. The iPhone makes things easier to do, and people do them a lot more than ever before. Many of those things use the network. That, not a failing of Apple's, is at the root of the capacity problems with AT&T.I do think it's interesting that AT&T expects iPhone users to use MMS more than other phone users. Are they right? I might have guessed the reverse... but I guess messaging of any kind (and photo management) is easier on an iPhone than on most generic phones out there. (Or maybe it's simply that AT&T's entire user base has grown--and they've "bought time" to catch up by disabling features on a highly popular phone. Maybe they don't expect iPhone users to be the heaviest MMS users, it's just that it's a block of customers they CAN conveniently block services for--ones who weren't using MMS to begin with--and so they did?)
You blame AT&T for this all you want but would be insane to exect a company to have to prepare there system for a MASSIVE and mean MASSIVE one time spike in the system with millions of iPhone users playing with there new toy. Chances are you have Terabytes of MMS pictures being sent and it is over loading the system. You have people intentionally trying to crash the system with the new toy and all those people add up.
You basicly have people doing DNS attacks on AT&T and you thing AT&T should of had there system set up for a one time weekend DNS attack.
Network capacity problems do NOT trace back to when Apple enabled the feature (which, in turn, was long before AT&T did).
I'm actually glad the first iPhone users had to use email: I consider it a good habit
No this one time problem traces back to Apple failing to deliver MMS on day one.
Your argument would only be valid if lets say be Tuesday-Wednesday AT&T is still struggling with this. If by then it goes back to normal it means it was a one time spike cause by Apple failing to deliver MMS day one and people playing with there new toy. Hell I expect by Sunday everything will be back to normal and the new amount of MMS will be rather small.