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my MMS is working perfectly, i didn't have to call AT&T or anything. I just uploaded the carrier file and it worked
*one video
I wonder if they will have a cap on the size of a video you can send. Or if it will just depend on signal strength and the time factor of sending a large video... I havnt used mms in a long time and when I did I never sent a video. Is there a cap on the size of data you send?
I wonder if they will have a cap on the size of a video you can send. Or if it will just depend on signal strength and the time factor of sending a large video... I havnt used mms in a long time and when I did I never sent a video. Is there a cap on the size of data you send?
I must ask once again... maybe it is my lack of understanding, but let me try anyway.
What is the advantage of MMS over standard E-mail? If I understand it correctly, they both go through the data channels of the cellular network, not the voice channels like SMS does. They can also both contain images and other attachments, not just short text. They are (or "will be" in the case of AT&T) free - except that your plan must include an SMS bundle in order to get free MMS, in which case MMS can actually be most costly than e-mail.
Can someone enlighten me on this?
What is the advantage of MMS over standard E-mail? If I understand it correctly, they both go through the data channels of the cellular network, not the voice channels like SMS does. They can also both contain images and other attachments, not just short text. They are (or "will be" in the case of AT&T) free - except that your plan must include an SMS bundle in order to get free MMS, in which case MMS can actually be most costly than e-mail.
Can someone enlighten me on this?
Well theres a couple things,
1. Some of the other people in this world do not have iphones. This causes problems when sending emails from the iphone to other phones ex. Razors
2. It is also a problem when the Razor wants to send you a picture or video. The user if they do have email capable phones still has to have your email address and send it via email, but can't mass email a phonebook with a cool pic cause most other phones support MMS and its just easier.
I cant rebuttal good today, but im still half asleep i just felt i needed to comment
How did you guys got MMS to work? Do I need to call AT&T, reboot iphone or what? I am clicking on Message app and see no camera icon
Because you need to install a hack to get it to work. There are numerous different methods that people have tried. I assume you haven't tried any.
LOL, lies. All one needs to do is look at your comment history to see you have hacked to enable MMS before. Why you felt the need to throw it out there like AT&T did it for you, I do not know.
I chose to ignore him. That's why I asked for his developer ID, since he doesn't act in any way like a developer. He's probably just some kid. BWT, did you notice the MMS with the "just got back from church" and then the pic of the scantily clad girl? The irony amazed me.
Haha, wow I didn't even notice that pic. Thanks for pointing it out though. Some people in the forums just do things like that. At least I know now to ignore posts by him on any other threads I may see.
You may have also noticed that all I said was "In short, NO" and then he went all off on me. I basically thought from his original post that he got the message that many get on here get about MMS and that it doesn't mean you get MMS....ya da ya da. Then he gets all juvenile and tells me to shut up, etc.
Well not true.. If you know what your friends carrier is then it is real easy.. Like my wife has Verizon and I just email her phone but it goes to her phone as a MMS.. See At&t, Verizon etc. all have MMS email address.. Verizon is phone number @vzwpix or vzwtxt.com example (2095555555@vzwpix.com) .. So she get it as a MMS and when she reply in goes to my email on the iPhone... It is more a pain do this because it take long to receive email then if it went thought MMS. But you can send email to none email phones.
That's how much I've figured out myself. Each carrier seems to have their own hostname dedicated for MMS (i.e. "mms.att.net" for AT&T) so you can actually send mail with attachments from your iPhone to those standard phones as MMS. I wasn't sure how a reply would be formatted when it arrived on the iPhone. Thanks for clearing that part up for me.
I have been doing this since I was on my first gen iPhone. I have one major problem with this when compared to MMS. Depending on what email service you are using and whether they have push, POP, iMap or whatever, it can sometimes take a while for the iPhone to register that you have an email. If I am using MMS, I know that as soon as the person replies to me with another mms or text, I will receive it almost immediately. When using email, I either have to continue checking my email or hope that my iPhone will register that I have an email and alert me. That is the one main advantage of mms over email that I have been waiting for.
Update
AT&T just released a press release saying MMS on the iPhone is delayed until Q1 2010. Crap
Link: http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=25791
In reality, I don't think anyone knows.
AT&T just released a press release saying MMS on the iPhone is delayed until Q1 2010. Crap
Link: http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=25791
In reality, I don't think anyone knows.
Quite amusing! Were the badgers some freudian thing about how we are "badgering" AT&T?
While this is true...I don't think everyone knows who their friend phone service is through. And then even if they did know the company, you'd have to look up where to send to: @vzwpix.com @tzwtxt.com @mms.gocbw.com etc
Also, you don't know if a person is sitting right in front of their computer reading emails, most do have their phone on. Most of the time I kind of want them to get the photo right away.
Even if you know the mms email addres (and I have my mom's programmed in) when they reply or send a picture to you it does that stupid viewmymessage.com email that requires you to go to a website, type in the username and password to view it.
Simplicity for the simpleton.
And in reality, because it's an ***** feature of the phone.
My guess on when AT&T will turn on MMS: as late this summer as they can possibly get away with. I'm sure they'd like another year but Apple said no. So I figure they will push it as far as they can to give them as much time as possible to increase network capacity, fill holes, and complete their 850 mHz overlays in the big cities. Some of this work will drag into next year, so they are just trying to do damage control and get as much done as possible before they flip the switch and then try to clean up the mess in areas where the network just doesn't have the room for more data. Then over time they'll get the overlay work done in those areas too, and we'll all finally be happy, sometime in 2010.
Just go to Howardforums.com and look over the "3G Expansion" AT&T subforum. LA and NY are making pretty good progress on their 850 mHz overlays, but they still have a ways to go (I'd guess 3-6 months to complete it based on the rate of progress I'm seeing).
The SF (San Francisco) overlay hasn't even started yet. They may be working on it behind the scenes but nothing has been turned on yet. Once they start flipping the switch, it seems to take several months to fine tune and troubleshoot before it's done. Right now, SF capacity is pretty horrible.
So no, AT&T is not at all ready for MMS. They are trying to buy as much time as they can.
Just go to Howardforums.com and look over the "3G Expansion" AT&T subforum. LA and NY are making pretty good progress on their 850 mHz overlays, but they still have a ways to go (I'd guess 3-6 months to complete it based on the rate of progress I'm seeing).
The SF (San Francisco) overlay hasn't even started yet. They may be working on it behind the scenes but nothing has been turned on yet. Once they start flipping the switch, it seems to take several months to fine tune and troubleshoot before it's done. Right now, SF capacity is pretty horrible.
So no, AT&T is not at all ready for MMS. They are trying to buy as much time as they can.