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Seriously, why no MMS?...
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This statement is always made, but isn't there a MMS app for jailbroken iPhones?
One of the best points and value of MMS said right here on this thread. I so agree and it isn't an age thing at all. I know plenty of people in 30's that do it all the time. MMS is a feature this phone should have.
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.
ok... dont roll your eyes at the youth because we like things like mms.... there should be feautures for adults, and children (using "children" loosley) and teens and such.
as a 19 year old, i would really like mms, but i dont care for stocks and all that, but i dont mind having it for the people that do want it....
that solves sending... but what about receiving?? (which is more important if you ask me)
I explained that in the first part of my post.
In your (non iPhone) friends phone address books, have them add your email address to your contact.
Then when they want to send an MMS they simply choose your email address instead of your phone number.
I've had a least a dozen friends do that and haven't had any problems receiving their pics.
In your (non iPhone) friends phone address books, have them add your email address to your contact.
Then when they want to send an MMS they simply choose your email address instead of your phone number.
I've had a least a dozen friends do that and haven't had any problems receiving their pics.
Isn't the standardarised message sent via a special protocol that isn't http or wap, and only accessable via the baseband?
That was my understanding.
Phazer
This does not work in many countries - providers have to specifically forward messages and many do not as they charge for MMS.
Phazer
to hell with the lack of MMS, that aint a problem..
...not being able to view any of the plethora of flash-based adult websites is!
C'mon! Flash-based web access is a must!
...not being able to view any of the plethora of flash-based adult websites is!
C'mon! Flash-based web access is a must!
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.
Me and my wife use it when out shopping - if she sees something I might like then she takes a snap and sends an MMS. Same for me. As has also been mentioned it's great for visual directions.
Stupid generalisations are just that: stupid.
It's been mentioned before in this thread, but jailbroken phones have full access to everything Apple and the cell-networks don't want them to have access to. Like the cell network, where they can intercept MMS requests. The official SDK does not give access to the cell network, for security and bandwidth reasons. Nor does the SDK allow running an app in the background, so even if it did work, the user would have to be running their MMS Receiver app all the time and nothing else. Apple is going to provide a workaround for background apps, let developers run a server sending the iPhone messages, but that wouldn't work in this case, since the phone itself is what receives messages from the cell network, thus an internet server somewhere wouldn't receive any messages to send to your iPhone.
I don't see why a regular application couldn't send a MMS. All it'd need to know is the name/IP of AT&T's MMS server.
As for receiving it, if "viewmymessage" wasn't Flash, if someone wrote a program that could launch Safari and log you in based on the stuff in the SMS notification you get, that'd be almost a decent workaround.
As for receiving it, if "viewmymessage" wasn't Flash, if someone wrote a program that could launch Safari and log you in based on the stuff in the SMS notification you get, that'd be almost a decent workaround.
MMS is old, Apple knows it, and you should.
Just like your old tapes, old DVD's and now old CD's ... the digital revolution is happening, and Apple is helping it along nicely.
There are now much more convenient ways to store, send and receive data - as i'm sure you all well know, your just not coming
to the point of accepting it yet, but you will.
MMS is gone, and as soon as the mobile carriers realize this, the better.
E-mail is a much more standard, convenient way to send images, and might I add, will work mighty fine with Apple's new MobileMe service.
Nearly everyone has an e-mail address these days, and what are they used for? - well, communication. A picture speaks a thousand words.
Why not utilize this technology it in such a way everyone can interact.
Send a picture directly from your iPhone straight to your recipients e-mail address.
Minutes later, they send you one back, it lands in your inbox on your iPhone ..
and with v2.0 of the software, one tap, and you have it in your camera roll.
Send one back? - Tap on a photo > Bottom left icon > Email Photo.
I really can't see the desire for MMS support.
Get over it people, it's old hat, and you know it.
My 0.02
R-Fly
Just like your old tapes, old DVD's and now old CD's ... the digital revolution is happening, and Apple is helping it along nicely.
There are now much more convenient ways to store, send and receive data - as i'm sure you all well know, your just not coming
to the point of accepting it yet, but you will.
MMS is gone, and as soon as the mobile carriers realize this, the better.
E-mail is a much more standard, convenient way to send images, and might I add, will work mighty fine with Apple's new MobileMe service.
Nearly everyone has an e-mail address these days, and what are they used for? - well, communication. A picture speaks a thousand words.
Why not utilize this technology it in such a way everyone can interact.
Send a picture directly from your iPhone straight to your recipients e-mail address.
Minutes later, they send you one back, it lands in your inbox on your iPhone ..
and with v2.0 of the software, one tap, and you have it in your camera roll.
Send one back? - Tap on a photo > Bottom left icon > Email Photo.
I really can't see the desire for MMS support.
Get over it people, it's old hat, and you know it.
My 0.02
R-Fly
If you only you could actually download photos from your email to your iphone.
Software version 2.0, Early July?
It has this functionality for both Mail.app & Safari.app
R-Fly
im 18, and i recieve like a couple of MMS a month and would actually liek to get them natively on my damn iphone. I also would send them more if i had the option. my friends dont bother checking the pictures i email them, they just dont email that much.
Did they fix the inability to send more than one picture per email in the 2.0 FW?
Being under Apple's Development NDA, I cannot disclose that information. Sorry.
R-Fly
Being under Apple's Development NDA, I cannot disclose that information. Sorry.
R-Fly
Ah, no worries. Didn't even know you were apart of the program.
It was just something that seemed odd to leave out. Especially if email is supposed to replace mms.
Note, it would also be nice to be able to send and recieve video mail via email.
I believe they actually could make this work on Apple's push notification system, but that's not to say an MMS app will be allowed.
I would agree with all of this were it not for the fact that most of the people I know don't do email on their phone. I would like it if they did, but they don't. Eventually all the people I know will have email on their phone and we'll all be happy. But by that time I'll be on my 3rd or 4th Iphone and I will have spent a year or two, logging on to the internet to see the picture I was sent.
Maybe a better option while we are waiting for the rest of the mobile world to catch up would be for AT and T , 02 and the rest of the official iPhone carriers to automatically forward MMS we are sent to our email? Or would that be too sensible?
But until people stop sending me picture messages or the carriers get sensible, I would like a MMS app, either free from apple or bought from the App Store.
This means you have to find out what carriers all your contacts have.
Also, it doesn't seem to work in the UK. At least for o2.
The number of MMS sent went up this year.
The ones that took the better part of fifteen years to fall out of general use?
The DVD format isn't going anywhere for a decade. Probably twenty years.