MMS for the iPhone has been, for the most part, a touchy issue since it was missing since day one. Apple, however, made amends when they finally included it in iPhone 3.0, but as far as AT&T subscribers were concerned, this still provided very little help since the US carrier still didn’t provide such a service for iPhone users in the country. Well, that’s about to change though as news just broke out that AT&T is ready to offer up MMS services for the iPhone beginning this Friday, September 25th. An update will be released via iTunes were the appropriate settings for AT&T MMS services will be included. It’s about time they do this, but come on now guys, is MMS still really that important to you? With a variety of ways to share pictures through iPhone apps such as Facebook, is MMS still relevant nowadays?
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September 23rd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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September 23rd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Yes, They should stop making excuses, and give what they promiced!
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Whoever wrote this article is clueless as to the use of MMS versus social applications. Of course MMS is relevant. If it wasn’t, there would be no uproar over the lack of this feature on the iphone. MMS is point to point, phone to phone. With a few clicks of your finger, a video or photo is sent to someone else. Facebook and social applications require you to log on and view those items. So yes, believe it or not, it is relevant.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
@DaveBoy…You’re right, MMS’ main advantage is its phone-to-phone, but with mobile apps now a regular staple in most phones these days, it’s now easier to share photos through social networking sites such as Facebook. MMS has been available in our country for several years now, and while many were into the whole MMS craze when it was first introduced, now, most of the people I know don’t use it anymore opting to use Facebook instead to share photos.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
” now, most of the people I know don’t use it anymore opting to use Facebook instead to share photos.”
That’s because you’re either a twenty something Facebook juvenile or an adult with no life. “I’m sitting on the porch”.
For the ADULTS who have no interest in yer “social networking” craze I’d have to say YES, it’s been a long wait.
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Mms is so overrated! Facebook rocks!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
MMS is old skul…there are soo many other ways of sending pics to phones.
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Of course MMS is still necessary. That’s neat that we can share pictures via Facebook, Twitter, etc., but when I want to immediately share a picture with a friend without a smartphone, how will Facebook help me? It won’t.
I’m excited that AT&T is finally offering to us what they should have included from the beginning.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Yes. It’s not about having other iPhone apps that offer ways to send photos. It’s about compatibility with services offered to other customers. Currently when I get MMS from non- iPhone users, I have to follow a round about process to view them most often, I just skip it.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
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September 24th, 2009 at 4:28 am
MMS is a 100% different way of sending multi-media than the use of any social networking site is. You have to think that there are still a ton of people out there without smartphones and without the ability to check pictures in various ways (i.e. E-Mail, Facebook, etc.). That being said — there are pictures I would love to send that I may not want all of Facebook to be able to see. MMS is relevant, useful, and will be a great tool for the iPhone — which has been way behind the ball by not having this service.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:48 am
I have to agree with several of the responses. The person that published this article doesn’t really understand the point of MMS. It isn’t necessary because it was promised or anything to that effect. The point is that when someone sends me a picture to my phone and I have to go through an elaborate and broken system, i.e. http://wwww.viewmymessage dot com, to attempt to retrieve the image… I get frustrated. The image should be delivered directly to my phone. Don’t send me in some alternate direction with a randomly generated login and password that I have to write down or bounce back and forth between screens to enter. And the use of Facebook is irrelevant to MMS. Facebook isn’t about sharing multimedia messages with an individual. Facebook just allows you to send out your pictures or videos to the masses. Unfortunately, contrary to the author of this article, there are times where I would like for the picture to go directly to someone rather than posting it up generally for everyone to see and then waiting for the intended recipient to go to Facebook just to look at it.
I’ve been surprised that AT&T has b/sed around this long about implementing it. At this point, all I can do is wait and expect the MMS services that AT&T offers to crash and burn.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:05 am
I have read a few articles that all state the same “mms is oldschool, mms irrelevent, etc.”
that is the most ridiclous thing I ever read!
MMS is the most important tech on cellphones! I have iphone 3g, and all my friends finally stopped sending me MMS, because I refused to follow the weblink bs! Now I have to start telling them its ok to start MMSing me again after all these years!
Emailing pics is worthless when most people do NOT have iphones!
SO please stop writing that MMS is useless, its the MOST important way of sending pics…social networking has NOTHING to do with MMS. My mom can recieve MMS, my mom has no idea how to setup an email client on her cellphone even if she had a smartphone!
MMS will be around FOREVER!
September 24th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Surprisingly, despite all the clamor for MMS, this is the least-used feature I have on my iPhone. Nonetheless, for those who need it, it’s about time AT&T delivers on their promise.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:50 am
MMS is necessary and quick. Facebook is for kids. Why should anyone have to utilize facebook or any other online program just to send a pic over to a friend instantly.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:20 am
MMS is just a fad. Having it for almost a decade in our country, less and less people are now using it. It maybe cool at first, but the novelty wore off after several years, and since MMS messages gets stored on the phone rather than online, it easily eats up memory on the phone. It’s still a hot service in the US coz it’s still relatively new, but I doubt it’ll still be as hot 10 years from now. It’s a nice add-on for the iPhone but it won’t be much of a deal-breaker either if it’s not there.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Phone to Phone is why we need MMS. It is a lost easier to send Grandma a picture of little Johnny through MMS then to try to talk her through Facebook. Even if she had a computer.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Bottom line, this is a business and AT&T made a promise/commitment and they failed to live up to. Let us customers try that one its time to the pay our bills. This whole issue has been BS an their part and should offer us some type of small discount or compensation. I never expect nothing for nothing, but they really screwed this one up and lied/mislead their customers.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:42 am
“is MMS still relevant nowadays?”
Yes. In my line of work, we send photos back and forth all the time. It is relevant and would save much frustration to have it. First, because you can shoot and send–simple. Second, most folks have it, so they expect us (iphone users) to have it too. It’s taken a while to get people trained to send me photos through email and to look in their email box (if they can in fact access their email on their mobile phone) to get the photos I’ve sent. And every time I get a new client I have to do the whole “I have an iPhone spiele. Anyway, glad that will be over.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Right on buckeyes
September 24th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Even still - yeah here’s social networks, But people want to send me MMS messages that I can’t see, cause of this missing update. It’s about time.
September 24th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Mms mostlikely would not have been aproblem if AT&T would have made it easser to retrive the MSG that login and pass thing is just so much a pain it’s not worth the trouble and I do not want to use my email I need simple like mms was on my old ph. I’m sure you yunger folk don’t need simple. But AT&T needs to remember most older folks pay the bills
September 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Yes it is. (to answer your question shortly) MMS is a capability that most all cell phone users flex on a daily basis. If this phone is to have “everything” and be the biggest kid on the block then not only should it have MMS it should have better MMS for the money iphone users have shelled out.
September 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
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September 28th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Contractor, it seems the layout on the prints doesn’t jive with the designers drawings and my builder has an alternative compromise for the area in question.
Architect, I haven’t seen the designers drawings since last we me but I would be most interested if you can explain the alternative method.
Contractor, MMS’s a quick photo of the space along with a close up of the designers renditions to confirm acceptance of the change. Has also done the same for the Designer and she accepted the compromise.
Architect, That would be great! Let’s go ahead with your builders alternative design!
MMS comes in REAL handy in a scenario like this. These professional folks need answers quickly and have no time for tweets and Facebook. Save yur precious “social networking” photos for pictures of yur drunken buddies or your last family reunion and let the Adults continue to communicate without worrying about how many “friends” they have.