All of my mobiles since the Ericsson R520m I had in 2002 (I think) have had email clients, I'm still the only person I know that uses email on their phone. Now I'm the only person that can't send MMS. Ironic since I believe I have the best phone....
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All of my mobiles since the Ericsson R520m I had in 2002 (I think) have had email clients, I'm still the only person I know that uses email on their phone. Now I'm the only person that can't send MMS. Ironic since I believe I have the best phone....
I know I'm repeating myself but check out http://www.iapps.co.uk/o2mms/#_home
It makes reading MMS on o2 in the UK a breeze, something that o2 and ATandT should have written themselves when they started supplying the iPhone.
Jailbreaking allows developers to access parts of the system that the SDK doesn't.
As I understand it a proper MMS app would have to have access to the baseband, and the SDK doesn't allow this (and isn't ever going to - the networks would consider that to be a security risk).
So no, I think a full MMS app is pretty unlikely.
Phazer
Doesn't Steve Jobs know that guys want their girlfriends (or any girls) to be able to send them dirty nasty picture messages? Am I right? Seriously. No? Ok.
I can just imagine:
girl:hey babe i have a pic to send you
guy
k just send it to your email, or sync your phone with your computer, download the photo, attach it, and then email it to me, and then ill check my email on my iPhone!!!
But really, I wouldn't mind going to viewmymessage.com if it wasn't the most worthless and unreliable service on the planet.
I can just imagine:
girl:hey babe i have a pic to send you
guy
k just send it to your email, or sync your phone with your computer, download the photo, attach it, and then email it to me, and then ill check my email on my iPhone!!! But really, I wouldn't mind going to viewmymessage.com if it wasn't the most worthless and unreliable service on the planet.
MMS is great for sending naughty pics.
THANK YOU!!! I thought I was the only one who misses it for at least this reason, if not more. Anyone know how annoying it is that in order to keep pics your girl sends you you have to login to the page on a laptop and printscreen (damn viewmymessage.com the pic as flash so you cant even save images) instead of just saving it to your phone when its sent...and that you lose them in 7 days if you dont do that? i dunno i guess it just pisses me off is all...plus it makes it much harder to show buddies the pics
girl: switches to another window of the IM.girl:hey babe i have a pic to send you
guy
Would it not just need access to the carriers mms server and that unified push notification service thing that they talked about in the keynote?
Actually it would just need to open an Internet connection to a specific APN (all configuration needed is readable from an MMS-enabled phone of this operator) and then send a standarized message via http or wap. Technically it's nothing to write home about.
To improve the iphone it must be easy to use. We get those mms messages from other phones and it is a real pain to look at them. Thus even if its not the best system to add this function would make the use of them much easier.
so apple make sure you add it!
so apple make sure you add it!
Doesn't Steve Jobs know that guys want their girlfriends (or any girls) to be able to send them dirty nasty picture messages? Am I right? Seriously. No? Ok.
I can just imagine:
girl:hey babe i have a pic to send you
guy
But really, I wouldn't mind going to viewmymessage.com if it wasn't the most worthless and unreliable service on the planet.
lol
Sometimes though, in order to expedite everyone moving into the future, you need to cut out the past.
If you keep inserting MMS in every device, it is going to take that much longer for people to adopt the superior email techonology that they should be using.
So someone has to step up and say, hey you cavemen, pull your head out and get in the 21st century!
I should say seriously, why no email on ALL phones ?
MMS is the floppy disk of media messaging...it's an antiquated impoverished means of sending media. I think for the most part even MMS hardly works on most phones...the user get's a cryptic message about a media attachment and it simply never arrives...this is anti-iphone FUD...if you have buddies that can only receive MMS make them get an iPhone!!
MMS is the floppy disk of media messaging...it's an antiquated impoverished means of sending media. I think for the most part even MMS hardly works on most phones...the user get's a cryptic message about a media attachment and it simply never arrives...this is anti-iphone FUD...if you have buddies that can only receive MMS make them get an iPhone!!
More people use e-mail than SMS on a daily basis. That makes more sense.
Regardless, as we get further down the road the chances of MMS ever being added get slimmer and slimmer. It is an outdated tech and the further they get away from it the chances of it ever getting implemented become closer to zero.
I would say if it does not show up in the next 6 months it is never coming to the iPhone.
I'm 17 and I agree 100%.
E-mail is far, far different than MMS.
You have to check your e-mail, half of which is probably junk, that doesn't need to be seen right away. E-mail is made to be seen at a later date. Text messaging is made to be seen right away. That's why your phone alerts you. "Hey were are you?" isn't a message that you should read in 4 hours. Someone wants to know where you are, right now. Same goes for MMS. It's not for sharing family photo albums, but when someone sends you a picture, they want you to see it now! "The restaurant is on the far left side of the plaza, it looks like this [PICTURE]"
Think of it the other way. Let's say email had come first on phones and MMS hadn't been invented yet. So everyone is waiting for messages, and needs to know both phone numbers and email addresses. Plus some email clients have no pictures or sound capability. And data plans are costly.
Then.. suddenly... Apple comes up with a way to instantly get a multimedia email, without a data plan, pushed to the recipient, and all you need to know is that person's phone number.
People would fall all over themselves praising it.
I think MMS only appeals to people under 25 and spotty teen chavs who like to take photos/videos of some kid getting happy slapped and share it with their mates with via Bluetooth or post on Youtube.
Think of it the other way. Let's say email had come first on phones and MMS hadn't been invented yet. So everyone is waiting for messages, and needs to know both phone numbers and email addresses. Plus some email clients have no pictures or sound capability. And data plans are costly.
Then.. suddenly... Apple comes up with a way to instantly get a multimedia email, without a data plan, pushed to the recipient, and all you need to know is that person's phone number.
People would fall all over themselves praising it.
Too true.
They even believed Apple last year when they said Edge was quick enough
Mms
I'm sure someone has brought this up, but I didn't see it so I thought I would offer it.
I simply had my friends add my email address to the contact for me on their mobile phones. Then they just select that address when they send me a picture and it arrives via email on my iPhone.
On my iPhone contacts I simply add an entry for each friend's mobile MMS address. Then I can just select that and email a pic to their phone and it arrives just like an MMS.
Here are some mobile carriers MMS address. I can't verify these are all correct as I have only needed to use a few of them.
Alltel = xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com
AT&T = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net
Boost Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com
Cingular (AT&T) = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.mycingular.com
Einstein PCS = xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com
Sprint = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net
US Cellular = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com
I'm sure someone has brought this up, but I didn't see it so I thought I would offer it.
I simply had my friends add my email address to the contact for me on their mobile phones. Then they just select that address when they send me a picture and it arrives via email on my iPhone.
On my iPhone contacts I simply add an entry for each friend's mobile MMS address. Then I can just select that and email a pic to their phone and it arrives just like an MMS.
Here are some mobile carriers MMS address. I can't verify these are all correct as I have only needed to use a few of them.
Alltel = xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com
AT&T = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net
Boost Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com
Cingular (AT&T) = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.mycingular.com
Einstein PCS = xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com
Sprint = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net
US Cellular = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com
That's the future of mobile computing. Whether you like MMS or not, it is here to stay and it is very tedious to view MMS on iPhone. Just as we have IM and SMS, iPhone should have email and MMS.I think MMS only appeals to people under 25 and spotty teen chavs who like to take photos/videos of some kid getting happy slapped and share it with their mates with via Bluetooth or post on Youtube.
Whether you think MMS should be on the iPhone or not, Apple appears to have no immediate interest in adding the feature, regardless of threads like this.
And the more iPhones that are sold, the smaller the market of "phones with MMS" becomes, too.