MMS for iPhones today... - Page 2

Trip · 09-25-2009, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Apple insisted that "MMS isn't required when you have e-mail"

google voice app integrated into the phone would have been nice

I disabled texting on my phone as well, use google voice texting integrated into my phone for the great price of absolutely free.

Gas Man · 09-25-2009, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by azoomm

Crackberry ftw!

FTW

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trip

google voice app integrated into the phone would have been nice

I disabled texting on my phone as well, use google voice texting integrated into my phone for the great price of absolutely free.

it works? I could download that.

I'm with Marko... completely stupid. Been doing MMS on sprint for 10 years!

neebelung · 09-25-2009, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Apple insisted that "MMS isn't required when you have e-mail"

I totally agree though. I haven't once had the NEED for MMS since we got them, because of the ease of email.

Trip · 09-25-2009, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gas Man

it works? I could download that.

I'm with Marko... completely stupid. Been doing MMS on sprint for 10 years!

Google voice is the shit. It calls my cell phone/work phone/home phone all at once. Only have to give out one number to people. Free text messaging. It is completely integrated into the blackberry, so it is no different than sending a text normally. I don't have to open the app to get messages or go to a webpage. They go straight to my normal inbox on my phone. Best part is voicemail. Voicemail is automatically put to text and emailed to my phone, so I don't even have to call my voicemail box to get the message, I can read it.

marko138 · 09-25-2009, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trip

Google voice is the shit. It calls my cell phone/work phone/home phone all at once. Only have to give out one number to people. Free text messaging. It is completely integrated into the blackberry, so it is no different than sending a text normally. I don't have to open the app to get messages or go to a webpage. They go straight to my normal inbox on my phone. Best part is voicemail. Voicemail is automatically put to text and emailed to my phone, so I don't even have to call my voicemail box to get the message, I can read it.

Sounds cool.

HurricaneHeather · 09-25-2009, 11:21 AM

What I understood was that AT&T's servers couldn't handle all the traffic that would be caused by letting iPhone users have MMS capability. That makes more sense to than the 'well you can just use email' thing.

jtemple · 09-25-2009, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaneman

Well when you decide to step into the 21st century you'll be able to understand a lil' better.

I'm excited about it, my wife and I send lots of pics back and forth and this will be a better way to do it than email. Now if only they would make a wide angle lens for my....

Johnson brats, we're having those for dinner tonight.

21st century my ass. You step into the 21st century and get instant push email notification. That completely negates the need to pay carriers ridiculous texting fees. It would cost me an extra $30 a month to get unlimited family texting that brings nothing to the table that email doesn't already handle.

SMS/MMS are about as 21st century as fax machines. Don't even get me started on those.

For all you 21st century schmucks that cling to your text messaging like Titanic survivors, I have Google Voice.

Trip · 09-25-2009, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtemple

For all you 21st century schmucks that cling to your text messaging like Titanic survivors, I have Google Voice.

You have google voice's website, not complete google voice because apple stripped you of that. You lose a lot of neat integration features because of that.

Not everyone uses push email on their phones, text messaging is still easier than push email because most phones have it setup in contacts to just text message and you have to find the work around to push email. So you aren't really gaining anything but annoying the large majority that uses text.

jtemple · 09-25-2009, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trip

You have google voice's website, not complete google voice because apple stripped you of that. You lose a lot of neat integration features because of that.

Yeah, I know that. It does let me give people a number that I can use to screen calls more effectively, and a way around texting fees, until that happens.

I can at least give out a real telephone number for people to text, instead of an email address. Some of the 21st century texters get confused when I tell them to text me at my email address.

Homeslice · 09-25-2009, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neebelung

I totally agree though. I haven't once had the NEED for MMS since we got them, because of the ease of email.

The whole advantage of MMS is that you can send a pic right after you take it......instead of haivng to d/l it to your pc first.

09-25-2009, 11:21 AM	#16
HurricaneHeather AMA Supersport Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Sydney Moto: '98 Honda Fireblade Posts: 3,696	What I understood was that AT&T's servers couldn't handle all the traffic that would be caused by letting iPhone users have MMS capability. That makes more sense to than the 'well you can just use email' thing.