As long as I have had mobile phones I have sent text messages to email addresses instead of phone numbers and it has always worked fine for me.
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Seriously, why no MMS?...
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Well then you have obviously never visited many countries outside the US...
This has been blocked by most UK operators for about ten years.
Phazer
Ah, let me change that then. I have always done it this way here in the U.S. and never had a problem.
And I have visited several countries, just never tried to send anyone an MMS in those places.
And I have visited several countries, just never tried to send anyone an MMS in those places.
unfortunately when I started my phonebook 5 phones, 3 palmtops and 4 Macs ago I never thought to ask everyone what their network was . . .
MMS App?
Cant some one make an app that you can send and recive MMS? If this is possible, why doesn't some one do it?
Cant some one make an app that you can send and recive MMS? If this is possible, why doesn't some one do it?
Keep calling Apple on this one. I do it all the time, and act all dumb and wonder why I can't get MMS's older than 7 days.
Sooner or later they'll cave in.
Sooner or later they'll cave in.
Without reading through every page of this thread, so it's probably been said before; Apple wants you to use .Mac / MobileMe galleries to send photos to people. Another point is that MMS and SMS are basically email that is "dumbed down" and marketed by the phone companies (which is why you can email pictures to phones), so I guess Apple figures you should email them.
I thought that you couldn't save picture on your phone though
You can with 2.0.
Read through every page and you'll see these points have already been addressed.
Phazer
Why no MMS support? I hate viewmymessage
I absolutely hate the viewmymessage site. It's flash, and loads a really ridiculous small size. Does anyone know of a way to get the full size picture? Ugh.
Come on apple / AT&T..
How about this idea:
when your phone number receives an MMS, AT&T convert that to an email with the attachment and send that picture to you? Is that too hard?
I absolutely hate the viewmymessage site. It's flash, and loads a really ridiculous small size. Does anyone know of a way to get the full size picture? Ugh.
Come on apple / AT&T..
How about this idea:
when your phone number receives an MMS, AT&T convert that to an email with the attachment and send that picture to you? Is that too hard?
SMS and MMS are not email in any way. They are much more related to phone calls, and pagers in particular.
The reason you can do any kind of email to phones, is that the carriers use conversion centers to translate between email and SMS/MMS.
Does AT&T offer email to their mobile customers? I know Sprint did (username)@sprintpcs.com but I haven't seen anything of the sort for AT&T. I have looked all over OLAM, if anyone has found it please share.
Otherwise, how does AT&T send the MMS via email?
There are also sites that use MMS as a quick data exchange mechanism.
For example, Thrrum lets you send them an MMS with a clear picture of some text, and they send back search results based on that text:
Thrrum MMS based search
For example, Thrrum lets you send them an MMS with a clear picture of some text, and they send back search results based on that text:
Thrrum MMS based search
Never mind. I see. I was going to say that didn't work, but I think I sent it to .com instead of .net.
Probably the same as the floppy back in the day. No real reason. Just don't really want to. Not on their priority list, I'm sure.
Wonderful, thanks.
This raises another question for me though -- if a user wants to reply to their sms or mms message, does it send their reply straight back to the email address that you originally sent it to them from?
Cause in the past week alone I've had more emails (from my iPhone on AT&T sent to an account of another AT&T iPhone user) be delivered (on both ends) without the attached pic/phone being unable to load the pic than I did in my entire 2+ years of sending MMS messages with my Razr?
And of course, as has been stated in dozens of these threads previously...not everyone in the country who owns and operates a cellphone has an iPhone, or an email account, or a phone where sending emails is either possible or easy.