iPhone MMS

OK so I knew this before I bought my iPhone 3G, but the more I use it, the more it bothers me.

I'm a teenager. I saved up my money to buy an iPhone 3G because my ipod broke and so did my cell phone so I replaced them both at the same time. I bought an iPhone 3G because it suited what I needed at the time (at the time being critical). I don't understand how this essentially revolutionary phone can do everything that cheap free phones can't but not everything that they can. For example, my friend paid $30 for his samsung phone and he can send and receive MMS messages. I paid $200 for my iPhone and I can't do that. The iPhone can find my location email to my parents so they can pick me up, I can find restaurants, I can schedule flights for when I visit colleges, and I can order from amazon all on my phone; he can't.

How can the iPhone do all these other (sometimes needless) things yet it can't send MMS messages? Is there something about the phone itself that prevents it from being able to send/receive MMS messages or is it something that Apple simply does not want to offer? If Apple did decide to allow MMS messaging on the iPhone would they have to release a newer version of the phone, or could it be a software update? To me, it seems like something that could be solved in a software update. I mean, in the last software update, my girlfriend used Street View to show me her new plants outside...If they can do that in a freakin update they can send a stupid jpeg or png or whatever cell phones use, over the network.

I find it annoying that this phone can do the extraordinary but not the ordinary...

 

That's like asking why the .Macbook (Pro) doesn't have a card reader or why the new MBP doesn't have a standard video output. And like, why the iPhone can't capture videos while 3rd party apps can.

I'm sure they will release an update. You'll just have to wait for it. I guess they have other priorities. For now, you could use Flutter ( http://www.juicecaster.com/flutter/). Personally, I just prefer SMS.

 

yeah I suppose there isn't a definitive answer anyone could really give me, but I thought maybe there was info you guys have that I don't (especially when it comes to hardware/software flaws). But yea I don't see what they're holding out on...and where the hell is push?

 

The reason Apple will NEVER add MMS to the iPhone is simple.......MMS messages will always incur an extra charge (whether pay per use, or via an extra "plan"). Since you're already paying for the data plan, you can just as easy email the picture instead of sending it by MMS.

Apple will introduce copy/paste before MMS.

 

Yea, its not like they cant add it, its just that they havnt/wont.

Think of it this way, you can send emails to other iphone users with jpegs attached. If everyone had an iphone, then you wouldnt need certain aspects of mms. Thats kinda my interpretation of it.

If anything, I would think iphone users would want a copy and paste function, before mms messaging. But yea im sure at some point in the future they will add it. If anything, I'd expect the next release of the iphone to have it. If that one doesnt have copy and paste (by then) or mms, then thats just silly.

 

I think they'll just add it later and try to charge you for it, supply and demand my friend . Copy and paste would be nice too, nearly every other touch-screen smart-phone can do it, except the iPhone .

 

There's hope for us.

 

I'd rather have MMS and not copy and paste, since most people I know have normal phones and don't use email very often...

 

MMS and SMS are old, outdated technologies. I just wish my friends would stop using SMS.

 

Actually, if you jailbreak your phone, you can get an app called swirlymms to send mms with your iPhone. Are we allowed to talk about jailbreaking here?

 

Yes we are, we just can't talk about getting applications for free, which we'd have to pay for otherwise. SwirlyMMS is in Cydia no?

 

SwirlyMMS is an app you have to pay for. Demo license at first, but then it expires and you must pay for it.

 

Then we'll use what? Emails

 

jailbreak your phone and get control of your phone...get Swirly MMS as already mentioned. I use it on my 2g iphone with no issues; i'm on tmobile btw

 

Ideally, yes. Unfortunately, Australians were silly when picking up new technology.

 

In Canada, we don't even have an unlimited data plan for the iPhone while there's a lot of plans that includes unlimited texts (and sometimes multimedia messages). And among my friends, I'm like the only one who has a smartphone. But I don't even have a data plan. I just prefer SMS to send short messages like "Where are you" instead of calling or worse, instead of sending an email

 

yeah exactly like my girlfriend has a verizon phone and sometimes she tries to text me pictures and stuff and I can't get them. Her phone is old school so she can't sync it with her computer to send them through email either so we're pretty much stuck. Even if MMS is an old school thing, the iPhone should be able to do it since it's new school.

 

how do you jailbreak your iPhone? I know there are a bunch of different methods, which seems to be the easiest? Also, how much is SwirlyMMS?

 

One good jailbreak is the iPhone Pwnage Tool by the iPhone DevTeam.

 

Google should answer both questions.

 

The thing about data plans, is that sending an email, and sending a picture, is such a small thing to do. Even if you have like the cheapest data plan, which is like in the mb range, you could still email comfortably.

That being said though, sms is still the king, and probably will be for a while. Though i guess its fair to say, in other countries like in japan, everyone emails. Theres no sms, or mms, its just emails.