there are a bunch of apps in the app store that will give you free or low cost SMS/MMS. i don't know why people are complaining. i text a little from my iphone and its completely free
Again.MMS isn't that exciting.email has been working well for me.Also sending email via text to other carriers (i.e.------phone# @vzwpix.com) works pretty well.
Try explaining that to a hot girl prospect when you're sharing photos .. i'm with you, i even send SMS thru gmail phone#@vtext.com so i dont have to go to an unlimited plan.
MMS shouldn't be thrilling, but the rest of the world uses it for now. It's kind of like the fax machine IMO.
I'm a 3G owner, but i can't see the logic why this wouldn't work with a 2G. My old LG phone from 5 yrs ago was able to send/receive pic msgs, iPhone 2G is far superior.... I feel for ya 2Gers
p.s. hoping to go back to verizon when they get 4G and hope at&t loses exclusivity w/ Apple
It's embarrassing. You would think that AT&T is a start-up company the way they deploy wireless and network services in this country. These folks continue to play the planned obsolescence game with these not-so-new technologies. Build as little as you can get away with, knowing that dropped calls during normal peaks will be tolerated, and charge what the market will bear. And they wonder why they lost their land-line phone customers. Clueless.
It's embarrassing. You would think that AT&T is a start-up company the way they deploy wireless and network services in this country. These folks continue to play the planned obsolescence game with these not-so-new technologies. Build as little as you can get away with, knowing that dropped calls during normal peaks will be tolerated, and charge what the market will bear. And they wonder why they lost their land-line phone customers. Clueless.
You know, as happy as I am to finally be getting it, I really do have to jump on the WTF Wagon here. How the hell is it possible that AT&T has been unable or unwilling to enable MMS for TWO FREAKING YEARS? I mean really...you mean to tell me that it's taken them two years to get their network ready for some goddamned picture messages---while in the meantime we've been surfing, e-mailing, gaming, downloading, etc? I just can't buy that. I can download apps from the app store under 10MB, but I can't send or receive a 1MB picture?
Don't even get me started on quality of voice service. It is horrible. As I posted in another thread, AT&T is the worst cell service I've ever had, hands down. Dropped calls are constant (at least 1 every other day, usually more). Service drops in and out. Actual call quality is highly suspect most of the time. I get distortion. I often get corrupted calls...where it connects and then I hear what sounds like a F***ing alien eating a fax machine. I get calls that don't end properly.
Oohh...and how about delayed voicemails/recent call notifications and texts? This seems to happen on regular phones as well.
Apple has to be aware of these problems. I can only assume that if the pressure gets high enough, they'll go multi-carrier next year. If so, AT&T is going to be in a world of hurt. They'll lose customers almost as fast as they got them. People like me, who will be at the end of their contracts, will bail for Verizon.
May our "Hummers" text so much on Sept 25 that we crash that frakkin network and we all get to $ue AT&T.
We need to overload the ATT servers on the 25th! We sould text ourselves with "ATT SUCKS" 1000x. Copy & Paste SMS war!
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Totally agree! I don't understand why the username/password used to view them can't be autofilled into the browser when you click the link...
ATT reason: Why, b/c its too easy and it make sense, we want to piss off our customers and do everything ass backwards and charge you a arm & a leg for service.
Not the worst idea ever... Apple should probably think about how to unify user interfaces of Mail and Messages. The feature is called e-mail threads and has been existing since long now.
Most of my family members don't have email on their phone. They are always trying to send me picture messages. And I'm so tired of having to remind them that I can't receive them on my iPhone. It's so embarrassing to hear "you mean your iphone can't get picture messages?" They are incredulous when I tell them it can't.
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Again.MMS isn't that exciting.email has been working well for me.Also sending email via text to other carriers (i.e.------phone# @vzwpix.com) works pretty well.
Try explaining that to a hot girl prospect when you're sharing photos
MMS shouldn't be thrilling, but the rest of the world uses it for now. It's kind of like the fax machine IMO.
I'm a 3G owner, but i can't see the logic why this wouldn't work with a 2G. My old LG phone from 5 yrs ago was able to send/receive pic msgs, iPhone 2G is far superior.... I feel for ya 2Gers
p.s. hoping to go back to verizon when they get 4G and hope at&t loses exclusivity w/ Apple
"The volume of smartphone data traffic the AT&T network is handling is unmatched in the wireless industry.
I wish we could see some verified/verifiable hard data on a claim like that.
Just use e-mail.
Friends don't let friends use SMS/MMS.
Yeah, unless you're receiving them from people. Checking them through the browser is horrendous.
It's embarrassing. You would think that AT&T is a start-up company the way they deploy wireless and network services in this country. These folks continue to play the planned obsolescence game with these not-so-new technologies. Build as little as you can get away with, knowing that dropped calls during normal peaks will be tolerated, and charge what the market will bear. And they wonder why they lost their land-line phone customers. Clueless.
totally agree. AFT...
Yeah, unless you're receiving them from people. Checking them through the browser is horrendous.
Totally agree! I don't understand why the username/password used to view them can't be autofilled into the browser when you click the link...
Don't even get me started on quality of voice service. It is horrible. As I posted in another thread, AT&T is the worst cell service I've ever had, hands down. Dropped calls are constant (at least 1 every other day, usually more). Service drops in and out. Actual call quality is highly suspect most of the time. I get distortion. I often get corrupted calls...where it connects and then I hear what sounds like a F***ing alien eating a fax machine. I get calls that don't end properly.
Oohh...and how about delayed voicemails/recent call notifications and texts? This seems to happen on regular phones as well.
Apple has to be aware of these problems. I can only assume that if the pressure gets high enough, they'll go multi-carrier next year. If so, AT&T is going to be in a world of hurt. They'll lose customers almost as fast as they got them. People like me, who will be at the end of their contracts, will bail for Verizon.
/rant
Totally agree! I don't understand why the username/password used to view them can't be autofilled into the browser when you click the link...
I would accept login codes that could be read by human beings and passwords that didn't sound like subject lines of spam e-mails.
L: 8xoch7khH45T
P: tommy2whine
May our "Hummers" text so much on Sept 25 that we crash that frakkin network and we all get to $ue AT&T.
We need to overload the ATT servers on the 25th! We sould text ourselves with "ATT SUCKS" 1000x. Copy & Paste SMS war!
Totally agree! I don't understand why the username/password used to view them can't be autofilled into the browser when you click the link...
ATT reason: Why, b/c its too easy and it make sense, we want to piss off our customers and do everything ass backwards and charge you a arm & a leg for service.
We need to overload the ATT servers on the 25th! We sould text ourselves with "ATT SUCKS" 1000x. Copy & Paste SMS war!
With a pic attached of a Hummer! Crash date 9/25/09!
How about 3 years late.
With a pic attached of a Hummer! Crash date 9/25/09!
that would be nice, but how many of us would it take to crash the network?
that would be nice, but how many of us would it take to crash the network?
Well since I live in NYC and AT&T's network is so fragile over here, it would probably only take the first MMS to crash the network.
Just use e-mail.
Friends don't let friends use SMS/MMS.
Most of my family members don't have email on their phone. They are always trying to send me picture messages. And I'm so tired of having to remind them that I can't receive them on my iPhone. It's so embarrassing to hear "you mean your iphone can't get picture messages?" They are incredulous when I tell them it can't.
that would be nice, but how many of us would it take to crash the network?
One.
Well, one too many that is.
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