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I’m an engineer, and Apple couldn’t patent it, because one they didn’t invent, and it’s a protocol mandated that any manufacturer of a phone that is MMS capable also be capable of supporting all formats. A phone can send an MPEG-4 video in AVI format, but the other party who is receiving the MMS may not be able to interpret it.

All mobiles should follow the standards defined by Open Mobile Alliance members include traditional wireless industry players such as equipment and mobile systems manufacturers (Ericsson, Thomson, Siemens, Reti Radiotelevisive Digitali, Nokia, Openwave, Sony Ericsson, Philips, Motorola, Samsung, Texas Instruments) and mobile operators (Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile), but also software vendors (Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle Corporation, Symbian, Celltick, Expway, Motive, Discretix).

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Please other phone manufactures don’t copy the MMS feature otherwise we’ll have to read those fanboys comments again for the zillionth time.

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Underused perhaps because of setup, usability and reliability issues. It predates 3G.

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Sorry Conrad , statistics show that 88% of the MMS users are under age of 22. You seem to be one of the other 12% You should be happy you are so “young at heart” at 45

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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