Actually the Apple software does not only use 3g. All ActivateMMS does is make the Apple software work.
There was MMS software for the iPhone before Apple provided it. I'm not sure why one would be needed to work with Apple's software.
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I'm sure the experience is enjoyable as I have it on my phone as well. It doesn't change the fact that lots of folks send loads of MMS messages to Facebook daily with no problems.
Like I said I don't hang around middle school crowd. Most of my friends are grown ups with smartphones.
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I've never gotten a piece of text spam.
This is probably an example of the entrepreneurial spirit in the US to exploit all means of making money. Text spam happens here.
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What phone? What are you talking about? There are entire groups of phones now advertised as messaging phones. Just because one of them hasn't crushed all the others doesn't change the fact that there are loads of them out there.
Well every modern phone can send messages. That in itself isn't much of a marketing tactic. My point is that the Blackberry is marketed as a superior email device. That is an important function that is widely used.
What percentage don't have MMS either, the largest selling phone of all time (Nokia 11xx) didn't.
Judging by their average handset sale price of just over €30, I'd say it would be a lot.
I also think you'll find that most Nokia phones that are capable of MMS are also capable of rudimentary email, I'm calling you on that 80% number, I reckon you just made it up.
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Tell that to Nokia. The largest phone manufacturer in the World. 80% of their phones don't have email but have MMS I'd call Bull Shit.
Apple tried to mold their users into what they think you need.
I'm a consumer, I know what I want and need in my products. I don't need Apple or Steve jobs to tell me.
The 100 million phones out there that don't buy into Apple's upgrade every year or be left out policy.
Just a question - which phones get regular software feature updates AT ALL apart from the iPhone.
You expect them to update it with every feature you want via software updates.
How many of those "100 million phones" get free major software upgrades at all?
I wish you'd just go away. You've degraded every conversation I've seen you enter since you got to this site. If you can't add anything constructive, why don't you just GO AWAY?
Sharp released the first camera phone in 2000, MMS came a couple of years after that.
Get off the cloud, you continuously just make stuff up.
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What amazes me most about this pathetic update is that Apple screwed the original iPhone owners out of the update.
Free piece of crap non smart phones have had this ability for years.
Way to go Apple, stick it to the faithful user and make them upgrade their 2-3 year old phone for a feature that is a decade old.
There is more to mobile tech than they iPHone. In know it's hard for you to accept but it's not about "CURRENT FEATURES" MMS is a decade old and there are 10's of millions of phones that don't have email
Just so everyone knows, NonVendorFan has been given a 3 point infraction for his behaviour towards TenoBell. I'd like to say thanks to TenoBell for rising above it.
They are very nervous about the amount of traffic so what do they do? Thats right, tell everyone exactly when it's going to be enabled so the network will be flooded.
Instead, what they should have done was quietly turned the feature on in a rolled out manor over the course of a week or two so that they could control the amount of traffic, initially.
They are very nervous about the amount of traffic so what do they do? Thats right, tell everyone exactly when it's going to be enabled so the network will be flooded.
Instead, what they should have done was quietly turned the feature on in a rolled out manor over the course of a week or two so that they could control the amount of traffic, initially.
Really a bad mistake.
I thought they were quietly rolling it out. Some people noticed MMS capability a few days ago.
hahaha WOW what planet have you been on? Apple didn't come up with that, that feature has been available on most phones for a while. Back in 2006 when I had a RAZR I could do that. Apple isn't being revolutionary in this instance they are catching up :P
I'm sure MMS is extremely popular among middle school girls. Not so much for professionals over thirty.
Seeing as many email users have multiple email accounts along with the facebook account and twitter account. There is little need for MMS.
Yeah then why did Apple give it to us at all? By your inane logic we should never even be discussing this issue. Just because you don't use it (most likely because you've owned an iPhone for 2 years and 3 months and 10 hours- probably waited in the loser line as well) and have never had it, everyone else uses it. You really need to get over it- Apple has listened and all of us who've waited over 2 years to buy iPhones are happy with it.
I'm marginally excited for MMS, but I'd much prefer a more staggered release (as opposed to what apparently happened where a small test group got it early) that didn't crash AT&T's network. I'm going to be travelling on friday and I've already printed off hard copies of my directions in case the network crashes and maps doesn't work.
Now when they actually, if ever, get around to turning tethering on. That would be worth waking up early over.
I'm marginally excited for MMS, but I'd much prefer a more staggered release (as opposed to what apparently happened where a small test group got it early) that didn't crash AT&T's network. I'm going to be travelling on friday and I've already printed off hard copies of my directions in case the network crashes and maps doesn't work.
Now when they actually, if ever, get around to turning tethering on. That would be worth waking up early over.
If AT&T is so afraid of MMS do you think we will ever even see tethering? Talk about crashing the network.
hahaha WOW what planet have you been on? Apple didn't come up with that, that feature has been available on most phones for a while. Back in 2006 when I had a RAZR I could do that. Apple isn't being revolutionary in this instance they are catching up :P
The entire delay and launch of this service is nothing but hype. Nothing. But. Hype.
Not to mention that if there are crashes this will only mean bad publicity not only for AT&T but Apple as well as it will draw attention to the fact that something so basic has been missing from iPhones for over 2 years and 1st gen iPhones still can't handle it.
The source said AT&T was "very nervous" about the launch, due to seeing a surge in traffic from just a limited number of iPhone users selected to participate in advanced testing of the new service.
Apparently they just never learn. They cheaped out on the infrastructure -- read: they built it out based on arbitrary budget not rational analysis of likely demand -- and now they see that even the test users are overloading their servers. No doubt Seth, wearing a neck brace this time to keep his head upright, will soon be starring in a new video explaining how those evil iPhone users are overloading the MMS servers.
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Actually the Apple software does not only use 3g. All ActivateMMS does is make the Apple software work.
There was MMS software for the iPhone before Apple provided it. I'm not sure why one would be needed to work with Apple's software.
I'm sure the experience is enjoyable as I have it on my phone as well. It doesn't change the fact that lots of folks send loads of MMS messages to Facebook daily with no problems.
Like I said I don't hang around middle school crowd. Most of my friends are grown ups with smartphones.
I've never gotten a piece of text spam.
This is probably an example of the entrepreneurial spirit in the US to exploit all means of making money. Text spam happens here.
What phone? What are you talking about? There are entire groups of phones now advertised as messaging phones. Just because one of them hasn't crushed all the others doesn't change the fact that there are loads of them out there.
Well every modern phone can send messages. That in itself isn't much of a marketing tactic. My point is that the Blackberry is marketed as a superior email device. That is an important function that is widely used.
Judging by their average handset sale price of just over €30, I'd say it would be a lot.
I also think you'll find that most Nokia phones that are capable of MMS are also capable of rudimentary email, I'm calling you on that 80% number, I reckon you just made it up.
Tell that to Nokia. The largest phone manufacturer in the World. 80% of their phones don't have email but have MMS I'd call Bull Shit.
Apple tried to mold their users into what they think you need.
I'm a consumer, I know what I want and need in my products. I don't need Apple or Steve jobs to tell me.
The 100 million phones out there that don't buy into Apple's upgrade every year or be left out policy.
Just a question - which phones get regular software feature updates AT ALL apart from the iPhone.
You expect them to update it with every feature you want via software updates.
How many of those "100 million phones" get free major software upgrades at all?
I wish you'd just go away. You've degraded every conversation I've seen you enter since you got to this site. If you can't add anything constructive, why don't you just GO AWAY?
Sharp released the first camera phone in 2000, MMS came a couple of years after that.
Get off the cloud, you continuously just make stuff up.
What amazes me most about this pathetic update is that Apple screwed the original iPhone owners out of the update.
Free piece of crap non smart phones have had this ability for years.
Way to go Apple, stick it to the faithful user and make them upgrade their 2-3 year old phone for a feature that is a decade old.
There is more to mobile tech than they iPHone. In know it's hard for you to accept but it's not about "CURRENT FEATURES" MMS is a decade old and there are 10's of millions of phones that don't have email
Instead, what they should have done was quietly turned the feature on in a rolled out manor over the course of a week or two so that they could control the amount of traffic, initially.
Really a bad mistake.
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Stop being so childish. As far as I'm concerned, you lost the argument for name calling. We try to not let name calling fly around here.
edit: oops, I see Mr. H. already dealt with it, somehow I didn't see his post before.
They are very nervous about the amount of traffic so what do they do? Thats right, tell everyone exactly when it's going to be enabled so the network will be flooded.
Instead, what they should have done was quietly turned the feature on in a rolled out manor over the course of a week or two so that they could control the amount of traffic, initially.
Really a bad mistake.
I thought they were quietly rolling it out. Some people noticed MMS capability a few days ago.
hahaha WOW what planet have you been on? Apple didn't come up with that, that feature has been available on most phones for a while. Back in 2006 when I had a RAZR I could do that. Apple isn't being revolutionary in this instance they are catching up :P
Wooooooossshhhhh...
Too much sun?
MMS has not been around for over a decade.
Sharp released the first camera phone in 2000, MMS came a couple of years after that.
Get off the cloud, you continuously just make stuff up.
it was in japan in the 1990's
it was in japan in the 1990's
Might that a similar standard that predates MMS? I can't find a hard date earlier than 2002 for MMS.
I'm sure MMS is extremely popular among middle school girls. Not so much for professionals over thirty.
Seeing as many email users have multiple email accounts along with the facebook account and twitter account. There is little need for MMS.
Yeah then why did Apple give it to us at all? By your inane logic we should never even be discussing this issue. Just because you don't use it (most likely because you've owned an iPhone for 2 years and 3 months and 10 hours- probably waited in the loser line as well) and have never had it, everyone else uses it. You really need to get over it- Apple has listened and all of us who've waited over 2 years to buy iPhones are happy with it.
Now when they actually, if ever, get around to turning tethering on. That would be worth waking up early over.
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Interestingly enough he sent it via EMAIL.
The first commercial cameraphone was the Sharp J-SH04 launched in November 2000.
The first commercial MMS service was launched by Telenor in March 2002.
it was in japan in the 1990's
I'm marginally excited for MMS, but I'd much prefer a more staggered release (as opposed to what apparently happened where a small test group got it early) that didn't crash AT&T's network. I'm going to be travelling on friday and I've already printed off hard copies of my directions in case the network crashes and maps doesn't work.
Now when they actually, if ever, get around to turning tethering on. That would be worth waking up early over.
If AT&T is so afraid of MMS do you think we will ever even see tethering? Talk about crashing the network.
hahaha WOW what planet have you been on? Apple didn't come up with that, that feature has been available on most phones for a while. Back in 2006 when I had a RAZR I could do that. Apple isn't being revolutionary in this instance they are catching up :P
Can you say "sarcasm"....
Google has more than 10,000 apps and lets face it they just have an Internet Browser and are a only a 5 year or so old company.
Google is only a 5 year old company? Did you just come out of cryo?
The entire delay and launch of this service is nothing but hype. Nothing. But. Hype.
Not to mention that if there are crashes this will only mean bad publicity not only for AT&T but Apple as well as it will draw attention to the fact that something so basic has been missing from iPhones for over 2 years and 1st gen iPhones still can't handle it.
The source said AT&T was "very nervous" about the launch, due to seeing a surge in traffic from just a limited number of iPhone users selected to participate in advanced testing of the new service.
Apparently they just never learn. They cheaped out on the infrastructure -- read: they built it out based on arbitrary budget not rational analysis of likely demand -- and now they see that even the test users are overloading their servers. No doubt Seth, wearing a neck brace this time to keep his head upright, will soon be starring in a new video explaining how those evil iPhone users are overloading the MMS servers.