Receiving video MMS works on iPhone OS 3.0?
Ever since the iPhone 3.0 beta was released, only the lucky and skilled have managed to enable MMS on their iPhones. It’s not that it’s impossible to do, you just have to know your way around the OS and do some modifications, enter settings, and that sort of stuff. What everyone has been wondering, however, was how the iPhone would handle videos sent over MMS. We’re happy to report that you can receive and play videos over MMS just fine. Check out one more screen shot after the jump!
Post inspired by a forum post on MacRumors
@Evilhomer
Yeah, and I would say that for every mindless hater of the iPhone, there is a mindless backer of it as well that posts after a preview of a new phone “it’s not an iPhone, who cares.”
And as for the G1 being a competitor (sales-wise) of the iPhone, it’s certainly not on the same stratospheric level that the iPhone 3G is currently on, but it sold 1 million units faster than the original iPhone did. That says that it has similar promise, especially considering it did it on T-Mobile and with less fanfare and advertising.
Janus09 Said:
@Evilhomer
And as for the G1 being a competitor (sales-wise) of the iPhone, it’s certainly not on the same stratospheric level that the iPhone 3G is currently on, but it sold 1 million units faster than the original iPhone did. That says that it has similar promise, especially considering it did it on T-Mobile and with less fanfare and advertising.
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I love when people make this comparison. The Storm people do the same thing. The “Storm/G1 sold more units at launch than the original iPhone”…
The original iPhone was sold for $500 and $600 unsubsidized. Not only that, initial sales were slower because Apple could not meet the demand. Stores sold out of multiple shipments each day and still turned away hundreds of customers.
The Storm and the G1 were what, $200 on contract? Also, there never really was much of a shortage of either of those devices. The Storm sold out in most stores the first day, but that was also due to the fact that most of the stores got VERY small shipments because of them needing to rollback the firmware.
I don’t know about the G1 but I called the store next to me on launch day and at late afternoon that day, they still had a dozen or so to sell.
So I don’t think the G1 has similar promise of sales as the iPhone does. I think anyone interested in Android as a platform is going to wait for a different device on a different carrier.
backbeat Said:
@EvilHomer who said: “Some people must really think if they bitch about the iPhone enough, Apple will pull it off of the shelves.”
That’s exactly the thing that gets me. The reverse also applies where all the gushing fanbois of whatever stripe cheerlead for the same false purpose. They’ve deluded themselves into believing that by repeatedly posting about their phone-based orgasms, others will be influenced to following suit. How insanely juvenile and low-brow can one get?!
Here’s to hoping 3.0 gets more robust enterprise support. That’s what I’m looking for.
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I am running 3.0 beta 2 and am VERY happy with this software. It’s not nearly what it’s going to be in June, but I feel like I already have a new device. Beta 2 is very smooth and so far, for me, very stable.
@Evilhomer
I am not going to argue with you and say that the iPhone and G1’s sales situations here are analogous. They absolutely are not. But just as there are conditions that make the iPhone’s sales more impressive, there are conditions that do the same with the G1.
First, the iPhone suffered from only a bit of scarcity early on and Apple kept up with supply well. The scarcity that did exist helps sales. It’s free publicity and free hype.
The things that make the G1’s sales more impressive isn’t just being on T-Mobile (less than half AT&T’s subscribers) and having less advertising. The G1 also came out during a much more difficult economic time and when the other carriers also had high end smartphones.
I would argue that these situations are at least roughly similar, but you could certainly argue otherwise, there are a ton of variables to compare different phones in different times/economic conditions. And I don’t know about the Storm’s situation much, but that phone’s never interested me so I don’t really care.
And the potential isn’t in the G1 itself (it will always be limited by the hardware/design,) it’s more in the Android OS.
It’s a joke.
Look at the carrier. It says iPhone. That means this screenshot was taken from the iPhone emulator included in the dev tools. It was taken on a computer. How can you possibly send a video to a phone that doesn’t even have a number or a network to run on. sorry guys it’s a fake.
it could be jailbroken and changed carrier png images
Am I the only person who noticed that the phone is connected to a wifi network and not a 3g or Edge? VidMMS probably only works when connected to wifi. I don’t claim to know this for fact, I was just curious.
I Have The 3.0 OS And The Option Is There To Send One, But Iv Been On The Phone With ATT And Apple For About An Hour, So Far Its Not Supported Yet And Will Not Send =(
mms on 3.0 works, restart the phone after u install carrier update