JuiceCaster Tries to Fill iPhone MMS Gap with Flutter
First off, we have to say that we’re pretty impressed that Apple even let this application through to the App Store. Whatever the case may be, rejoice iPhone owners as you can finally [sort of] have some MMS love on your handsets without the need to jailbreak. Flutter doesn’t really provide “MMS” as video and audio messages are not supported and the app isn’t yet capable of receiving messages. Instead, it allows users to send image messages to any phonebook contact and even geotag the photos if they so choose. Users may choose an existing photo within the iPhone’s camera roll or snap a new pic right from within the app. Geolocation data can then be added and the picture will be whisked away to any recipient in the user’s phonebook. So there you have it folks, at least it’s a start. Oh and by the way, Flutter is completely free. Woo! Maybe some day Apple will get around to adding this amazingly sophisticated functionality itself so developers can stop messing around with these makeshift band aids and stick to the good stuff. Until then, Flutter is already available from the app store so head on over and give it a go.
HAHAHAHAHA UTTERLY PRICELESS!! My Sentiments EXACTLY! I still think one of the most standard features for 98% of the cell phones is still lacking in the iPhone. I along with you have used Email as my alternative to MMS because I had a T-Mobile Sidekick which also didn’t support MMS. Its not the sending of pictures that is the MAJOR flaw in the iPhone in my opinion. Its receiving pictures. I have idiot friends that take a picture of everything they find interesting and it’s like pulling teeth to get them to understand how to send a pic via email on their phones. They just shoot, select a contact and send! Simple enuf, but we have to find a desktop PC/MAC or a pen and a piece of paper to view the pics because of the idiotic AT&T site they make you go to, to be able to see the picture. The site itself always seems to be bogged down or unresponsive which doesn’t help the matter at all! hahaha U would think AT&T and Apple would have come up with a better solution for retrieving photos that are sent to iPhones. At the least a direct link from ur text message that autofills the login and password for you so u don’t have to memorize or write down the random generated login info! Just my two cents.
I don’t use MMS much, however, I do recieve a lot of mms messages from friends. Most recently from my cousin who took a pic of there new baby & sent it via MMS to everyone in the family with the note, better quality pictures to follow in your email. Which is how most people use MMS. You whiners who are moaning that “people don’t use MMS” probably don’t see a use for a camera or videocam on your phone either. Its convienience (ie the ability to communicate with the non-smartphone having public) & its easy as hell to implement in the OS. Its just something Apple couldn’t be bothered to do. Like Cut & Paste. Which incidentally, I can’t live without so I refuse to ditch my blackberry for an iPhone & will continue to carry my blackberry & my ipod until Apple gets it right. Get with the program Apple! It a bloody software patch for crying out loud!!!
Bill,
Thanks for the step by step on how to use MMS on my iphone. That is basically how I have been trying to use it, and I thought, there must be an easier way. I have had to resort to carrying a pad of paper and a pencil to write down the cryptic login and passwords to use my state of the art iPhone.
Are you nuts. Some people need the mms for there job to foward real time conditions to get help with engineering etc without whipping out a laptop or leaving the job site etc.
Grow up, just because you have no need for it doesn’t mean nobody else does.
You’re an idiot to like the rest that doesn’t want the most they can get out of a phone.
The problem, on the rare occasion that I want to send MMS, is that the receiving party may get no notification of the fact that there is a message in his/her email box.
You mean to tell me that you haven’t checked out http://mms.ifind2.com? let’s face it AT&T sucks big time! They over charge customers left & right and when push comes to shove they leave you high & dry. But if you want true working MMS on your I Phone then you must check this out.
MMS from ifind2 is the best; they now have tethering so you can use your i Phone as a modem, what else can you ask for. Stop waiting on AT&T, even if the MMS comes out on the 25th it will still have lots of bugs and glitches.