Internal AT&T Memo Indicates Groundbreaking iPhone 3G Feature: MMS
Check this out. New reports are coming in that a very interesting memo is currently circulating internally at AT&T. Said memo reportedly lists a variety of features that will supposedly be included on the upcoming iPhone 3G. Among them is an exciting new service that - get this - allows you to send SMS-like messages that include multimedia attachments. Imagine! The service, cleverly named Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) supposedly allows users to attach one or more image, audio file or even video and deliver the message along with text. The recipient of the message will then see and / or hear the multimedia on his or her mobile. Nutty. None of this is confirmed as of yet, but how sweet would it be if a mobile phone had functionality like this?! Oh Apple, you’ve done it again! Next thing you know we’ll find out that Apple has figured out a way to copy text from one place and paste it to another. Ok, that’s just crazy talk.
Tags: Apple, AT&T, iPhone, iphone 3g, leak, memo, messaging, MMS, rumor
I’ve been able to send/receive MMS on my 3Network phone for years. Nothing new even if it’s true
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ummmm.. am i the only one (along with yode) that noticed this is EXACTLY LIKE SWIRLYMMS!?!?!?!?! THIS IS THE FAKEST SHOT I HAVE EVER SEEN! IT COULDNT BE ANY CLEARER BECUASE ON TOP OF THAT IT IS RUNNING ON TMOBILE.
the only reason i would see that this could be real is if BGR used this as an example and NOT the real thing. just to show us what it was like.
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Lmao at every1 above. Good eyes, I definitely didn’t catch it. Regardless the iphone should have already had MMS, nevertheless I still want an iphone but not on att.
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Yea the memo has no pictures. That is a pic added by BGR for illustration purposes.
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Wow they finally added MMS. I’m tired of all the iPhone fanboys saying that this feature isn’t necessary because the iPhone does email and you can send a picture as an attachment. That’s such BS because email is not a replacement for MMS. Most people don’t have smartphones so they can’t get their email easily. Almost every phone (except the current iPhone) is capable of receiving MMS messages. That’s why it’s useful feature. If you want to send a picture to another cell phone, you can simply send it through a MMS.
And I know that all the service providers MMS emails gateways so someone can send an email to the receipient’s phone which they will receive as an MMS but then you need to know the service provider of every person you want to send MMS messages so you can know which email gateway to use. Most people won’t memorize the service provider of every person in their phonebook so that suggestion would be ridiculous.
And I agree with Conrad. Now all Apple needs to do is add copy & paste and stereo Bluetooth.
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soon as I read it could send videos I knew it was bullshit
iPhone can’t capture video
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yep looks like it is just SwirlyMMS..wow for a minuite i though apple was making progress..oh well
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Also notice that the image has T-Mobile as the carrier on the phone! My guess is that this is a mockup of an MMS app that somebody wrote for a jailbroken iPhone.
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the screenshots were just pulled from the archive for this story. They weren’t circulated in the supposed internal memo.
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Email, Email, Email!
Find out your friend’s phone’s email address (every carrier assigns one) and EMAIL THE FREAKING PIC to them!!!!
http://iphone.macworld.com/2007/08/sending_and_receiving_mms_on_y_1.php
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That is an iPhone using the Swirely Space MMS app.
Screenshots of Swirly Space AKA the Alleged iPhone 3G MMS Feature:
http://www.swirlyspace.com/iphone/apps/mms/screenshots.html
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You’re right - most aren’t smartphones.
However, read the link I sent. Every carrier gives your phone an email address. It’s usually your phone number @ carrierphonedomain.com or something. Or you can personalize it like myname@mycarrier.com or whatever.
Items emailed to that address come as text message. If it’s a picture - it comes as MMS. We seem to have forgotten this feature, with email connections etc… these days. But it’s been around forever.
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Retards with no sense of humor. The effing picture was not with the memo. BGR is just dropping visuals because some of you picture book M-Fers need colors and pretty stuff to draw your attention. For the guy who thinks the article isn’t 95% sarcastic, please leave. Bottom line, Doubtful that it has MMS, MMS has been around forever, & the picture is photoshopped. Shoot.
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@ “Pom”
I did the homework assignment you gave us. I read your fancy article. In fact, here is the final paragraph that I COPIED from there and am PASTING here using my BlackBerry Curve:
“It’s hardly an ideal solution, and I’d hope that Apple adds in real MMS support in its first major software upgrade, but for the moment, it may tide you over.”
I agree with your article - hardly an ideal solution. But I’m testing it out on my mom who’s 100 yrs old and doesn’t have a smart phone. I’ll report later.
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So, the iPhone is finally starting to catch up to the Sidekick?
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@ “Pom”
Update - as promised.
That didn’t take long. Experiment failed. I used the address provided by your article. Pls see error message below:
The following message to was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.2 - Bad destination host ‘DNS Hard Error looking up vzw.pix.com (MX): NXDomain’
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@Conrad
Yes, it’s not ideal. But it should work. That was not the only place that I found that answer. Though I had thought that’s how it would work - I was glad I found the answer.
Keep in mind that the domains are not always just the carrier name. They often are something different (as the article pointed out.) You’ll need to find that out.
But again - it should work. Email a picture directly to a phone, using the phone’s email address, and it should arrive as a MMS message.
I CAN verify that I’ve received emails (and sent) as text messages. I’ve sent myself an email using the text message application, and I’ve sent an email and received it as a text message.
I’m not trying to be rude or sarcastic, and I hope you’re not either (as tends to be the trend today online) - I’m just sick of seeing people whine about this MMS and calling it a dealbreaker for them.
If you don’t like the iPhone - fine. There are lots of phones out there I don’t like. I don’t like the BlackBerry - but I don’t harass others over it. (And I know it wasn’t you doing this.)
All I’m doing is giving an option and hoping it works.
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@ Pom
Yeah, I *am* being a little sarcastic for the sake of entertaining the rubes. But I don’t intend to rude.
But I do like the iPhone, a lot. And MMS is not exactly a deal breaker, but there are other shortcomings in the product that I, my pal Galvatron and others have discussed. The frustration is that the missing features are old hat for almost all devices. It doesn’t make sense that Apple left them out.
And I’m punched out.
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FAKE! Terrible UI.
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Pom,
Yes, the carrier email gateways have been around forever, but you obviously didn’t read my whole posting. Do you know the carrier for every single mobile phone number in your contact list? I certainly don’t. So without that piece of information, those carrier email gateways (on your macworld.com link) are useless. And with number portability, your friends could easily switch carriers at any time. If the iPhone would simply support MMS, then you wouldn’t need to know the carriers that your friends are using or the appropriate email address to use.
By the way, phones from 3 to 4 years ago supported MMS. For the amount that Apple was charging for the original iPhone, MMS should have been built in.
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Other great workarounds for basic features that the iPhone should have:
Cut & Paste: get yourself notepad & pencil, copy it down by hand, and then re-type it in.
Stereo bluetooth? just get one of thoe fancy new wired headsets I’ve been hearing about.
Video? Just take a whole lot of pictures real fast & stitch them together into a movie in FinalCut.
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I guess the writer of the article does not know that MMS exists on any $49+ phone made by any other company than Apple since 2003-2004? To be sincere I never used MMS (it’s for kids), but it’s just lame that iPhone still does not support it and you have to use additional software to do it. But Apple fans seems to find this groundbreaking
as they did with the touchscreen, which was already on the market when iPhone 1.0 appeared but they thought it was revolutionary.
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I don’t get the hype about MMS…its been around since forever and its been on my blackberry pearl since I bought it…
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@ Dan T
Dammit Dan T, just when I think I’m out they pull me back in!!
MMS is not just for kids. I’m 45. I use it all the time. But thanks for the jab to the kidney.
I agree with the balance of your post.
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http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2008/01/02/mms-update-to-swirlymms-02/
This article just shows the hack application SwirlyMMS… take a look at the screenshot on the link above and you can see that they are the same as the article’s screenshots
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