Do you really need MMS when you got Mail and Safari? I barely use MMS anymore. The images are small and low quality. I guess it was cool when it was first introduced but now it's just obsolete.
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Seriously, why no MMS?...
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I am not sure why the people who don't care for MMS just don't ignore these threads
I use MMS a lot. I am going on vacation in July, and I would love to be able to take a picture and send it back to friends to show them the sights. Emailing is fine for some of the folks I will send pictures to but for my friends who don't have constant email access, MMS would have come in awfully handy.
Again, it is just incomprehensible that a $500, now $300, phone does not have this ability.
Jude
I use MMS a lot. I am going on vacation in July, and I would love to be able to take a picture and send it back to friends to show them the sights. Emailing is fine for some of the folks I will send pictures to but for my friends who don't have constant email access, MMS would have come in awfully handy.
Again, it is just incomprehensible that a $500, now $300, phone does not have this ability.
Jude
Like I said in a different thread. Since MMS is outdated and better handled by email. When will SMS become outdated and be handled better by email? Both features are newer than email.
I suppose SMS and MMS can be handled by email but I prefer to receive both right away. The last time I checked my iPhone can only check for mail every 15mins.
I travel often for work and when I'm on the road and get the viewmymessage.com notification I cringe. I'd like to see the photo of my kids first (whatever) and talk to my wife about it right then. I understand that I can teach her how to email photos from her cell phone but find that unrealistic when dealing with other elder members of my family that also send MMS's to me. In my opinion the feature needs to be implemented asap. Pathetic.
I suppose SMS and MMS can be handled by email but I prefer to receive both right away. The last time I checked my iPhone can only check for mail every 15mins.
I travel often for work and when I'm on the road and get the viewmymessage.com notification I cringe. I'd like to see the photo of my kids first (whatever) and talk to my wife about it right then. I understand that I can teach her how to email photos from her cell phone but find that unrealistic when dealing with other elder members of my family that also send MMS's to me. In my opinion the feature needs to be implemented asap. Pathetic.
I am not sure why the people who don't care for MMS just don't ignore these threads
Why can't people who care about MMS stop making them?
I don't care for in-car GPS, but I don't feel compelled to respond to most threads started on topic that express a desire for this feature, either.
It takes no effort to simply move along if a topic/thread is distasteful.
Jude
I am not sure why the people who don't care for MMS just don't ignore these threads
I use MMS a lot. I am going on vacation in July, and I would love to be able to take a picture and send it back to friends to show them the sights. Emailing is fine for some of the folks I will send pictures to but for my friends who don't have constant email access, MMS would have come in awfully handy.
Again, it is just incomprehensible that a $500, now $300, phone does not have this ability.
Jude
Again, I think MMS was just an intermediary step since Internet on a mobile device wasn't so widespread back then. Of course, it's instantly, but if my friends would send me pictures, I'd rather have them send me a big picture to my email and find out about it in the evening than a small, low quality image directly to my phone.
Most phones that support MMS also support E-mail, too.
You may have your email. Your recipient doesn't need to have one. But he has the ability to view the MMS on their phone. And this is the sort of communication that is perfectly enough for most of the users. It allows sending a video that has been captured by the phone in the resolution it has been captured, it allows sending a pic taken by the phone, in the resolution it has been taken (granted, some phones are 3.2 mpix nowadays) - yes, the resizing is disabled in most European networks. It just works, no matter if you have an email or not, if you're in wifi range, 3G range or wherever.
It
Just
Works.
You are free to send your pics via email or whatever. MMS is a basic and widely spread function in Europe. Face it or just **** if you cannot understand it.
It
Just
Works.
You are free to send your pics via email or whatever. MMS is a basic and widely spread function in Europe. Face it or just **** if you cannot understand it.
Oooooh c'mon.
In order to be able to send MMS, you just have to configure your phone - it's just as complicated as setting up an Internet connection (in fact, it is an Internet connection setup) and in most networks is done by OTA programming. You receive the settings when you first turn on your new phone, press "Save", done. There are better networks and worse networks, so YMMV - but it is a mature and well developed technology over here. And it is just easy as sending an SMS.
The point is, that most people here who keep insisting on "MMS is not needed" are people who never have received an MMS, let alone sent one. In this case all their argumentation is simply irrelevant. This whole "I use email, so MMS not useful" is that stupid, it disarms me.
So all of you, who don't use MMS - move along and find a better thread to display your ignorance. Thankfully, there are people who were able to actually develop a rock-solid open-source MMS-centre, so writing an MMS app for iPhone is well within reach of developers.
In order to be able to send MMS, you just have to configure your phone - it's just as complicated as setting up an Internet connection (in fact, it is an Internet connection setup) and in most networks is done by OTA programming. You receive the settings when you first turn on your new phone, press "Save", done. There are better networks and worse networks, so YMMV - but it is a mature and well developed technology over here. And it is just easy as sending an SMS.
The point is, that most people here who keep insisting on "MMS is not needed" are people who never have received an MMS, let alone sent one. In this case all their argumentation is simply irrelevant. This whole "I use email, so MMS not useful" is that stupid, it disarms me.
So all of you, who don't use MMS - move along and find a better thread to display your ignorance. Thankfully, there are people who were able to actually develop a rock-solid open-source MMS-centre, so writing an MMS app for iPhone is well within reach of developers.
I too can't understand why the non MMS fans feel the need to defend the lack of it. There surely must be enough people that want to have it to justify Apple including it. There certainly is enough of a demand to justify someone writing and selling an app for it.
So instead of agreeing that there is a demand for it and it is a bit strange that apple have not included something that practically every other mobile has, they say that only numptys would want to send MMS etc. and give convoluted alternatives involving emailing mobile numbers that don't work for every carrier.
Did the lack of MMS stop me from buying an iPhone? No.
Does a significant section of mobile users want to send/recieve MMS? Yes.
Is it reasonable to expect Apple to include MMS? Yes.
I still have an old PAYG phone for sending pictures to my friends and family that don't have email on their phone (i.e. all of them) and I use Ross McKillop's WebApp to read any MMSs that I am sent. If you are in the UK its well worth using.
So instead of agreeing that there is a demand for it and it is a bit strange that apple have not included something that practically every other mobile has, they say that only numptys would want to send MMS etc. and give convoluted alternatives involving emailing mobile numbers that don't work for every carrier.
Did the lack of MMS stop me from buying an iPhone? No.
Does a significant section of mobile users want to send/recieve MMS? Yes.
Is it reasonable to expect Apple to include MMS? Yes.
I still have an old PAYG phone for sending pictures to my friends and family that don't have email on their phone (i.e. all of them) and I use Ross McKillop's WebApp to read any MMSs that I am sent. If you are in the UK its well worth using.
Are you being serious? Point, click, send. It's ridiculously easy.
As for people going on about MMS and size/quality, you appear to have missed the point - MMS is used to send pictures immediately which are then viewed on a 'phone screen. You're not sending high quality images. The whole point is to be able to see it straight away.
If you don't understand that then MMS isn't for you which is fair enough but don't tell other people who do know what it's for that it isn't a nice feature to have.
I agree. The majority of my friends and family do not have a iPhone or a email capable handset (certainly no data tariff). MMS is often used by them to send me photos and it would be nice to receive these in a quick easy way and also to be able to send photos directly to their phone. MMS is very popular in the UK.
Theoretically. Until the image gets compressed, cropped or corrupted. Or the network fails to send it somehow. Sounds like US has much more reliable MMS than Australia.
The point is, it's not happening. If you don't understand why the iPhone doesn't, and never will have MMS, you just don't get it.
The lack of MMS is a joke. I've never had any problems sending or receiving an MMS. My phone, and most of my friends own email capable phones, but we all use MMS because it suits our purposes.
Some people just can't seem to grasp the simple fact that MMS, just like SMS, serves a function which compliments voice and email.
The iPhone does have a nice UI, but it'll need to get the basics right -file transfer etc.- before I consider one.
Some people just can't seem to grasp the simple fact that MMS, just like SMS, serves a function which compliments voice and email.
The iPhone does have a nice UI, but it'll need to get the basics right -file transfer etc.- before I consider one.
Really? MMS was a little gimmick people (at my college and uni) used when they got a new phone.
Heh, even my 2 year old Razr has email support.
It will happen I believe. Either apple will eventually release an update that includes it, or sell it as an App or someone else will write an app, because MMS is quick, easy and there is a demand for it.
Maybe you don't get MMS?
There is already an MMS app on jailbreak so I'd be shocked if it wasn't on the AppStore at/near launch.