iMessage Confusion

[mcmul]

The majority of my friends are BlackBerry users so I'm not as clued up as I should be about iMessage yet. Let's say I've been SMS'ing an iPhone friend and then for whatever reason, it switches to iMessage. Should I then send a picture over iMessage, will that register as an MMS or will it send it like an attachment in an e-mail (no extra extortionate charges). If it is like an attachment, is there a way to absolutely TRIPLE check your buddy still has iMessage activated and it will be sent in the way intended? Should for whatever reason their connectivity drop and it's now SMS, will it abort the picture or at least prompt me saying 'are you sure? Vodafone are about to rip your eyes out with an extortionate some of money for a few measily kbs of data which should be included in your already extortionate price plan?'.

Thanks.

 

[saving107]

The majority of my friends are BlackBerry users so I'm not as clued up as I should be about iMessage yet. Let's say I've been SMS'ing an iPhone friend and then for whatever reason, it switches to iMessage. Should I then send a picture over iMessage Your device will send it as an iMessage automatically, unless you turn off iMessage, you can't decide how each message is sent, will that register as an MMS or will it send it like an attachment in an e-mail (no extra extortionate charges) If sent over WiFi, their is no charge at all (sent over 3G, it will count as part of your data plan). If it is like an attachment, is there a way to absolutely TRIPLE check your buddy still has iMessage activated and it will be sent in the way intended? Your device will know if your buddy has iMessage enabled or not (blue text bubble is an iMessage, Green in SMS/MMS) Should for whatever reason their connectivity drop and it's now SMS, will it abort the picture or at least prompt me saying 'are you sure? if an iMessage fails to be delivered within 2 minutes of being sent, your device will ask you if you'd like to send it as an SMS/MMS.Vodafone are about to rip your eyes out with an extortionate some of money for a few measily kbs of data which should be included in your already extortionate price plan?'.

Thanks.

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[mcmul]

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Perfect. Thanks, mate.

 

[netnothing]

I believe the timeout for iMessage to fallback to SMS is closer to 5 minutes.

A trick learned is, if you are sending via iMessage (using the blue bubbles), then you automatically get the little Delivered text when the message you sent is delivered.

One way to tell if there is an iMessage delay is....if you send a message, and that delivered doesn't show up right away. If that's the case, then likely iMessage is having a problem sending the message. You don't have to wait for 5 minutes. You can press and hold the bubble of your message, and it will popup asking you to force send it as an SMS.

-Kevin

 

[TM WAZZA]

I believe the timeout for iMessage to fallback to SMS is closer to 5 minutes.

A trick learned is, if you are sending via iMessage (using the blue bubbles), then you automatically get the little Delivered text when the message you sent is delivered.

One way to tell if there is an iMessage delay is....if you send a message, and that delivered doesn't show up right away. If that's the case, then likely iMessage is having a problem sending the message. You don't have to wait for 5 minutes. You can press and hold the bubble of your message, and it will popup asking you to force send it as an SMS.

-Kevin

Thanks for the tip