Argh!
iPhones don’t do MMS. I don’t know why, they just don’t. That means that if you like to take pictures with your cellphone and send them to someone with an iPhone, they won’t get it, no matter how many times you resend it. What you will get (at least on AT&T, for you non-unlockers like moi) is a text message telling you to go to viewmymessage.com with instructions to put in such and such message ID and such and such password to view your message.
Which would be fine except for the fact that it never works. I think I’ve successfully looked at an MMS message through viewmymessage.com maybe twice. The rest of the time it fails with a nonspecific error message and an exhortation to “try again later.”
Do you have any idea what it’s like to have someone send you an MMS only to tell them you can’t view it WITH AN IPHONE?! I mean, come ON. The cheapest goddamn camera phone that you can get for free with any carrier will do MMS but not the fucking Jesus Phone? Are you frigging kidding me?
Yes, I know that I can send picture messages with email. Email to MMS gateways are rather flaky in my experience. I’ve never succeeded in sending a picture to someone’s phone that way. Pictures to someone’s email, sure. Phone? Never. As for getting my friends and family to email me their camera pictures vs. MMS let me just ask you this: how many of your friends who aren’t using smartphones know how to use them for email, even if it’s possible? Hell, two of the people I know actually using smartphones can’t do email!
I don’t use MMS all that much, I’ll admit, but I have used it in the past and I’ll bet that if my iPhone could do MMS, I’d use it in the future. What possible reason is there for leaving this feature out? I can’t figure it out.
MacWorld can’t get here soon enough. I really hope we see a major iPhone update.
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