View Full Version : MMS finally hits the iPhone
Only about 28 months late. Now iPhone users in the US can rejoice, we have a feature that has been standard on almost every phone sold for the past five years. It only took AT&T three months to do something that should have taken less than one minute.
It's great to finally have MMS but too bad AT&T has such a ****** *** network and I'll only be enjoying it for only a few months until my contract is up and I give up my iPhone.
The lack of MMS appears to have really affected sales.
What phone/network are you going to?
The lack of MMS appears to have really affected sales.
What phone/network are you going to?
Going to give Sprint and the Palm Pre a try. Test their network for a week or two and see if I can drive my normal places without dropping calls and test network speeds. I may wind up back with Verizon but I'm hoping Sprint's network suffices here.
The lack of MMS didn't effect anything, it was just stupid. When I first bought the phone I wasn't even aware that you couldn't send an MMS. MMS is such a basic feature that is standard across almost all phones that it never even occurred to me that it wouldn't be there.
Did you ever find a work around, live without it, or what?
RedRage00
09-14-2009, 03:40 PM
I thought it was coming out on the 25th?
Did you ever find a work around, live without it, or what?
Oh I jailbroke the phone almost immediately when I discovered that Apple had left out MMS. When the SDK came out I restored it back to original form and I started developing simple apps. When the 3.0 beta came out it had MMS and I've been actually using MMS for quite a while.
I thought it was coming out on the 25th?
It was supposed to come out on the 25th but AT&T launched it early apparently. I think the reason it is here today and not the 25th is because the 25th is 2 days after the last official day of summer. AT&T already has dozens of lawsuits over MMS to contend with but if they failed to deliver on the promise of delivering MMS "before the end of summer" a lot of those lawsuits would have legal ground to stand on.
Oh I jailbroke the phone almost immediately when I discovered that Apple had left out MMS. When the SDK came out I restored it back to original form and I started developing simple apps. When the 3.0 beta came out it had MMS and I've been actually using MMS for quite a while.
Gotch, your original statment led me to believe that you had not had it until today.
Only about 28 months late. Now iPhone users in the US can rejoice, we have a feature that has been standard on almost every phone sold for the past five years. It only took AT&T three months to do something that should have taken less than one minute.
It's great to finally have MMS but too bad AT&T has such a ****** *** network and I'll only be enjoying it for only a few months until my contract is up and I give up my iPhone.
Gotch, your original statment led me to believe that you had not had it until today.
Well, it isn't exactly seamless, which is why I said it like that. I have to type in carrier information into the device settings in the phone if I ever turn my phone off. Sort of like using duct-tape. Now AT&T is actually removing the MMS opt-out from everyone's messaging plan and people can just send and receive.
okt0ber
09-14-2009, 05:30 PM
Going to give Sprint and the Palm Pre a try. Test their network for a week or two and see if I can drive my normal places without dropping calls and test network speeds. I may wind up back with Verizon but I'm hoping Sprint's network suffices here.
The lack of MMS didn't effect anything, it was just stupid. When I first bought the phone I wasn't even aware that you couldn't send an MMS. MMS is such a basic feature that is standard across almost all phones that it never even occurred to me that it wouldn't be there.
Good luck with that.
the_phoenix612
09-14-2009, 06:58 PM
of course, since most of my friends have iPhones anyways, we just email pics to each other.
also, I could email to any of my verizon friends' cell phones through their numbers.
The only reason you couldn't have picture messaging is if you're too lazy to figure it out on your own.
okt0ber
09-14-2009, 07:09 PM
of course, since most of my friends have iPhones anyways, we just email pics to each other.
also, I could email to any of my verizon friends' cell phones through their numbers.
The only reason you couldn't have picture messaging is if you're too lazy to figure it out on your own.
Shouldn't have to go out of your way to figure something out. Also, the iPhone can't receive MMS, and I'm not gonna go out of my way to email something on my Storm when I shouldn't have to.
Also, how about video MMS? Didn't think so...
RedRage00
09-14-2009, 10:37 PM
Shouldn't have to go out of your way to figure something out. Also, the iPhone can't receive MMS, and I'm not gonna go out of my way to email something on my Storm when I shouldn't have to.
Also, how about video MMS? Didn't think so...
LOL You can't even compare the Storm to the iPhone...iPhone blows the Storm out of the water haha
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