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New article: MMS Coming Soon?

Are you sure your pictures come out full resolution when you e-mail them?

I'm sure they are resized. Full size pics should be 1600x1200...
 
I actually you guys are right. I just tested it and it did resize to 800x600. I used to send pics from my phone through email before I had my iPhone and I think that's what I was thinking of. I forgot that the ones I've gotten off my iPhone camera I did through an iPhoto sync. Sorry for the false hope I may have caused haha.
 
Michael CM1 said:
Seriously, what is the need to get pictures sent straight to your phone as opposed to waiting until you get near a computer?
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The problem with your argument here is that you can apply it to any feature of the iPhone (e-mail, internet, music, maps, calendar, games, Airshare apps, the list goes on...) or even the phone itself. Yeah, you don't need to call anyone, just wait until you can get to a landline....

As for MMS, just get the damn feature out. It doesn't have to be a native app, I really don't care, just let somebody develop it. They can charge $20 for the app and Apple would still make a killing off of it,
 
mms is a must these days some are saying that email is the way forward that maybe true but what about people sending you a mms, it would be nice to be able to view them, mms is like having a pc thats backwards compatible, just think if you got a pc with no usb ports on you would go crazy, you need them even if you dont use them every single day. It seems to be a feature more people want for receiving mms from people who don't have iphones and cant email off there phones. i think its a feature someone has to get sorted.
 
I just tell my friends to send the mms to my email works perfectly all they do is put an email in instead of a phone number. And then I put their phone number in the email area of their contact card and can email to their number. The carrier translates it into an MMS message on their end. Works with AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint numbers those are the only ones I've tried.
 
e-mail is archaic creeking technology that's swamped with junk and the only time i use it is to get receipts from online ordering & work account which i wouldn't be able to get on a phone other than company blackberry's anyway....

why not just blueto..... oh wait iphone doesn't do that does it....

so i'm abroad on holiday and i meet some friends there, we take pics on my phone and i want to send them to them, because i probably won't see them again...... i could bluetooth the pics or mms the pics... oh wait iphone doesnt' do this :p
 
If AT&T, Apple, whoever... is forcing us to use viewmymessage.com for the love of god please provide an encoded link in the text message. Trying to remember the message id and password is just crazy talk.. Just my 2 cents.
 
Michael CM1 said:
Seriously, what is the need to get pictures sent straight to your phone as opposed to waiting until you get near a computer?

I figure people who want to get pictures sent to them in an instant will move to the smartphone level.
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1. I bet if you told 100 people "Hey I got a new iPhone. I can't get picture messages. Here's my email address if you ever want to send me a picture: xxxxxx@xxx.com," less than half of them would remember to email it to you as opposed to sending a MMS.

2. The iPhone is a smartphone. We don't don't get images in an instant.
 
heaven said:
To be honest, I still think that not adding mms support was a good idea. Why bother with low resolution images when you can sent them by email!
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Apples mail app for the iPhone actually downsized the resolution of pics when you attach them. MMS actually sends at a higher resolution. This is well documented on other forums.
 
Aurial said:
Apples mail app for the iPhone actually downsized the resolution of pics when you attach them. MMS actually sends at a higher resolution. This is well documented on other forums.
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Oh, I didn't realize that. Haven't used them in a while now and last time I saw them, the resolutions were pretty terrible. Thanks for pointing it out ;)
 
kas23 said:
The problem with your argument here is that you can apply it to any feature of the iPhone (e-mail, internet, music, maps, calendar, games, Airshare apps, the list goes on...) or even the phone itself. Yeah, you don't need to call anyone, just wait until you can get to a landline....

As for MMS, just get the damn feature out. It doesn't have to be a native app, I really don't care, just let somebody develop it. They can charge $20 for the app and Apple would still make a killing off of it,
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Bingo!

I'm really getting tired of the Apple apologists insisting that only tool bags need MMS on their phones.

I work with dozens of people without MMS and only a handful of my friends have smart phones with email capability.

There are 100 million phones out there with picture message capability, the iPhone should offer it for no other reason than simple backwards capability.

This is also the #1 requested feature at pleasefixtheiphone.com

So apparently there are at more people ticked about this missing feature than any other one, including copy/paste!
 
hint:

If you need MMS so bad - get a phone that offers it. It's so easy. I really hope it never comes to the I-Phone, it's not needed and it's proponents annoy me so :) I just use fuzzyshot and anyone can see my pics instantly.
 
The argument against MMS is ridiculous

I know many people prefer not having MMS because pictures are better when sent through e-mail. I know most people can still send a picture to another person using email. I don't think this is a sufficient substitute.

Most of my friends don't have smartphones because we're all poor college students. However, all "dumbphones" still send and receive MMS. So when I'm at a concert or game and want to send a picture to my friends who couldn't be there, I NEED to be able to use MMS. Sure I can send them an email attachment, but then they won't get it for a day or two.

Perhaps the lack of MMS is an attempt to get everyone to get smartphones that can just email back and forth. However, THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN because not everyone can pay $80-$100 per month. I think forcing the "no MMS idea" down people's throat is a big mistake because it ignores the youth market (who cannot necessarily afford smartphones/data plans).

Just my 2 cents...
 
It's not just poor college students. My wife is a dentist (they do pretty well btw) and she really likes her old Motorola PEBL because it's really compact and has great battery life. It has bluetooth that works in her car and that's all she really needs.

It drives her nuts that she can't send me picture messages from her phone and vice versa.

Not everyone wants to use email to get/send picture messages when MMS technology has been around for years and millions and millions of handsets on many different networks support it.
 
kdarling said:
Most importantly of all, if Apple would just put out MMS, then...

We could all go back to complaining about Copy&Paste, Turn-by-Turn and Slingbox.

:p
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Yeah! Yeah! I can't wait until that day. I will be able to divert my bitchin & moaning elsewhere.
 
Turmoil said:
If you need MMS so bad - get a phone that offers it. It's so easy. I really hope it never comes to the I-Phone, it's not needed and it's proponents annoy me so :) I just use fuzzyshot and anyone can see my pics instantly.
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Those dreaded MMS whiners... :)

I think it would be a nice feature. They can add it right after they fix the Safari crashes...
 
jmpage2 said:
Not everyone wants to use email to get/send picture messages when MMS technology has been around for years and millions and millions of handsets on many different networks support it.
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I do. Honestly, I really do want to use email instead of MMS.

However, considering that it takes an average of FOUR TIMES going through the process of sending a pic via email to someone (both have iPhone 3G, both using Yahoo email, both in 3G reception area with full bars) for me to actually send a picture and have someone receive it, I'd like to have something that might actually "just work".
 
Michael CM1 said:
Seriously, what is the need to get pictures sent straight to your phone as opposed to waiting until you get near a computer? I NEVER used MMS with my pre-iPhone phones because of the cost jacking associated with it ($5 for one picture that someone sent me).

I figure people who want to get pictures sent to them in an instant will move to the smartphone level. People who don't will use stupidphones. I know that a lot of you use MMS, so maybe you can just tell me what the greatness is.
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I dont use a computer for work. Not everybody here has a desk job....and thank god for that.
 
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