Please attempt to use some punctuation. I'm still waiting for the end of that sentence.
I think you mean "It's resolved." As in, It is resolved, not its' (ownership).
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Please attempt to use some punctuation. I'm still waiting for the end of that sentence.
I think you mean "It's resolved." As in, It is resolved, not its' (ownership).
Well, considering that the internet, especially forums, is not the place to come and hope for good punctuation/grammatically correct sentences.
petvas
macrumors 603
Oh come on, this is a forum about computers and technology, not a grammar lesson. Nobody is writing his/her essay here!
Many time people write "its" instead of "it's" . Of course we know the difference!
Using your example (A new way at looking at it):
Your daughter and son-in-law have a new baby. Dad works all day and mom stays home and takes care of the baby. She likes to send pictures to dad so he can be a part of the experience. She takes picture with the iPhone, and then attaches that to an email and sends a email. Dad can then read on his computer or phone. Problem solved, MMS not needed. MMS was good before email made it to the phones.
soundsgoodtome
macrumors regular
It's not that the iPhone isn't "MMS-capable"; of course it's capable. it's that AT&T doesn't want the massive additional bandwith usage that MMS on the iPhone would create. It's part of Apple's agreement with AT&T that MMS is not available on the iPhone.
AT&T would want to charge even more than they're charging now, to include MMS. They had to "cut corners" somewhere, so they chose (for now) to omit MMS. Perhaps if enough people complain to AT&T and Apple, they'll change their minds about this.
But if you want to point fingers, blame AT&T, not Apple.
petvas
macrumors 603
Not everybody uses email for that. Imagine the following situation:
You are among friends and someone wants to have a picture you have on your iPhone. Normally if you had a different mobile, you would immediately send him/her the picture per Bluetooth. That's one feature missing on the iPhone.
Second example: You want to send a nice video message to your girlfriend. She has a typical mobile phone. You send her an email but she will see it when she will go online. If you had MMS, you would create a nice video and send it immediately and your girlfriend would see it at the same time. That's direct communication...This feature is also missing from the iPhone...
I read so many negative postings here, I thought I'd post a positive experience.
I to was looking forward to 2.1, even though it was mostly about bug fixes. The download and install went smoothly. My 3G reception is significantly better. My contacts are snappier as well. I'm not sure yet about the battery life, but so far it's all been positive. The other main thing I'm looking forward to is turn by turn software.
I to was looking forward to 2.1, even though it was mostly about bug fixes. The download and install went smoothly. My 3G reception is significantly better. My contacts are snappier as well. I'm not sure yet about the battery life, but so far it's all been positive. The other main thing I'm looking forward to is turn by turn software.
Actually, all AT&T needs to do is send a regular SMS message with something like:
MMS Message Received
Click http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to view.
That way you can view it in Safari without having to remember the website and weird password.
petvas
macrumors 603
Not everybody lives in the US. You know the world existed many many years before the US even was discovered...
NinjaHERO
macrumors 6502a
Just to add a little fuel to the fires. Turns out even us American's are texting a whole lot more.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/survey-american.html
Story made all the funnier with the Iphone being the pic they used.
Well since this is a iphone discussion, and American's invented the telephone, for the purposes of this debate, only we exist. 😀😀😀😀😀
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/survey-american.html
Story made all the funnier with the Iphone being the pic they used.
Well since this is a iphone discussion, and American's invented the telephone, for the purposes of this debate, only we exist. 😀😀😀😀😀
Text message recovery?
Ive noticed a new 2.1 feature. When scrolling to the top of a long text message thread, there is an option to recover more messages.
Ive noticed a new 2.1 feature. When scrolling to the top of a long text message thread, there is an option to recover more messages.
jayducharme
macrumors 601
Maps
Regarding Maps:
I noticed that now if you don't have Location Services turned on, when you press the location button a message box comes up telling you to go to your settings and activate it. Before, by pressing "Okay" GPS would automatically be activated.
Also I noticed that Maps had a lot of trouble connecting on the road. I got a "cannot connect with server" error even though I had 3 bars on 3G. The map would only show an empty grid. Before the update I never had trouble. The pulsing blue dot was moving but there was nothing else to see.
Regarding Maps:
I noticed that now if you don't have Location Services turned on, when you press the location button a message box comes up telling you to go to your settings and activate it. Before, by pressing "Okay" GPS would automatically be activated.
Also I noticed that Maps had a lot of trouble connecting on the road. I got a "cannot connect with server" error even though I had 3 bars on 3G. The map would only show an empty grid. Before the update I never had trouble. The pulsing blue dot was moving but there was nothing else to see.
bigandy
macrumors G3
Actually the telephone was invented* by Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman. From Scotland.
FAIL.
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NinjaHERO
macrumors 6502a
So he invented it in Scotland and then raced across the Ocean to patent it in American where he was working on it? You have an interesting idea of how that worked. 🙂
How about I conceed your Bell point and rephrase my statement. Invented IN America.
hiimamac
macrumors 6502a
ANY Reports on WI FI?
When I went from 2.0.1 to 2.0.1 I went from 600K to 100K so brought the phone back and haven't updated since.
Haven't seen any threads on this yet and this (2.0.2) was a KNOWN issue according to some of my Apple Genius friends.
Experience with WI FI speeds on 2,1?
Thanks
bassproguy07
macrumors 6502a
I cant even download it, my itunes freezes when it is backing up....I cant cancel the backup either idk its pissing me off
missing the point. Email hasn't made it to the phones. At all!!
Yes, the iPhone wins in the smartphone niche of the market, but Apple doesn't like to compare it with teh whole of the mobile phone market.
There, email doesn't exist (almost.). People with phones that aren't blackberries or iphones do not have data plans. They do not use email.
And they most certainly are not gonna buy an iphone just so that they can receive pretty emails with pictures (sorry, with a picture, seein as Apple forgot people like to send emails with more than 1 photo) from us iPhon"ers".
I mean, if you don't see this i don't know how to explain any further.
For god's sake: SMS has not dissapeared and it's the predecessor of MMS. First came SMS, then EMS, then MMS.
And again, don't forge than in the US you can use email to mms gateways because people actually pay to get calls or texts or photos (incoming traffic). This is really the exception worldwide - hence mail gateways aren't popular and barely enabled on the internet to phone direction.
westernmass
macrumors 6502
battery life for me seems worse. Charged phone all night, 8am left for Sox game. Used the phone on and off checking emails and sent a few photos. No calls and no push emails by the way. Now 8 hours later and well below 70% it looks like. I had to reboot so usage at zero until full charge. I will try again tonight to charge and use again to tomorrow. It is gen1 and always thought I had battery issues this seems to confirm if everyone else is doing much better. 🙁
"Building a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles." - Chris Demorro
And anyway, this update is awesome, installing apps is much faster, everything seems smoother, I'm a happy iPhone user. Thanks to this update I have turned on auto-syncing on iTunes.
We're all humans. Doesn't matter where we are from. A human invented the telephone; quite an accomplishment.