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
It’s probably real. And no, for the fellow that asked, it will not work on the original iPhone. They have already stated that MMS will ONLY work on the 3G and beyond due to some sort of hardware limitation. That SUCKS. I can’t get 3G service in my area, but to get MMS I would have to have a 3G phone, which costs another $10/month for the data plan! Freakin’ nuts.
Bill
hey sadov88
Where did you dl this?
My 8310 curve can mms big deal after 2yrs only now apple decides to add mms!!! I don’t know why it took so long for apple to add mms anyway big up to all you iphone fans can rejoice now!
Sent via BlackBerry.
I don’t like the fact that it only works on 3G network…
I can still e-mail the damn video over the Edge network, so I don’t see why I can’t get a video delivered via Edge.
Guess e-mail is still the way to go…until I can get the N97, 5800, or OmniaHD that is…
Even though mms might not work, will the new OS still add improvements to the original iPhone? I an asking because a friend is giving me his old iPhone tomorrow and i am wondering which tool to use to unlock / jailbreak and whether i should try to upgrade first
This is great, but unless it can play any 3gp, wmv, avi, or mov file, it will be useless.
The iPhone currently only supports a few video formats like you tube and H.264. It won’t play any wmv, 3gp, or mov files I’ve loaded. So does that mean it will only play video MMS that comes from another iPhone? (assuming video recording is even a possibility in 3.0)
Or am I mis-reading this, & sending video MMS will not be supported, but receiving is. In which case the sender has to know what formats your iPhone supports?
Either way, I’m not getting my hopes up.
Agree on battery issues. I keep 3G turned off to save battery and cause I dont have good 3G signal at my house. I have one bar of 3G and if it drops to zero, I drop the call. I leave it on edge and I have 4 bars and no voice issues. This is not a iphone thing, its a 3G thing and what I have always had to do to 3G phones.
To solve battery issue, I just keep a car charger handy as well as a desk charger otherwise I cant make a full day without it dying. Basically what i have always donr for a smartphone… I would always be charging it in the car on my way back home.
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I’m very, very new to my iPhone (read: got it yesterday) so forgive me for sounding like a total idiot when I say… But how on earth do you “do some modifications” to allow the phone to receive MMS files?? I’m rather like Kryptonite for computers and other technological devices, so I try not to go poking around unless I have some directions.
@ Counsel
I don’t think it won’t work on EDGE network, I’m pretty sure they mean it only works on the iPhone3G.
And I don’t believe that this is due to some hardware limitation, I think the MMS is going to remain blocked on the carrier’s side simply because you already get a $20 data and they don’t want you to stay with it for as long as you possibly can and do want you to upgrade. So, an other way to try to force users to upgrade.
Hi karissa if you want to enable the MMS In your iPhone, you are going to have to wait for the new OS upgrade coming in June or so, there are some guys playing with this option bucause the got the beta version of the new OS upgrade.
The current iphone 3g dose not support the MMS option.
Just wait for the upgrade.
Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Greensboro United States
Any of you iPhone who hacked 3.0 onto their iPhone bother to call AT&T and have them turn on MMS on your account? Like everyone used to do with SwirlyMMS?
“I think the MMS is going to remain blocked on the carrier’s side simply because you already get a $20 data and they don’t want you to stay with it for as long as you possibly can and do want you to upgrade.”
From someone who has paid only $15 for unlimited data on devices that supported 3G long before the iPhone 3G and used considerably more data than the iPhone is typically capable of (all with picture/audio/video messaging available), this is ridiculous. Hardware limitation or not, they’re using it to their advantage to make people switch. It’s just sad they’re using STANDARD features as the bait.
There has never been one handset company that had every feature built into the OS from the get-go. Apple is no exception. Apple has made a great a jump as any mobile manufacturer within less than two years. If you look at any of the history of mobile OSs you’ll find that they took years to add certain features. OSX Mobile was built from scratch so why should it have had everything from the start. If it’s going to be implemented poorly, why even bother.
A case in point. Shouldn’t Windows Mobile be a finished product by now after eight-odd years and six different versions if it already had all the features. I’m sure they’re still adding some that the iPhone already has.
The reason why the iPhone isn’t considered a corporate-class business handset because there still aren’t tools in place to manage thousands of them at once from a central area and I think there were still missing pieces in the OSX Mobile framework in keeping them fully secured. At least that’s what I’ve read in some IT articles.
@saber, Janus09, AgBand:
I love posts where every “point” is made on complete opinion, self-absorption, and conjecture…it makes the dismissal so absolute.
“it’s more of a multimedia device (which is true) and therefore less serious.”
It’s a statement like this that illustrates the kind of nonsense that your posts are made of.
Does the world need to close down on April fools? Must be annoying for you guys.
Janus09 Said:
Another “new” feature that should’ve been on ANY smartphone in that price range.
On one hand it’s great that Apple is finally gettin these features on board.
But on the other hand it just reminds you that somehow a high end smartphone didn’t have MMS or copy and paste.
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Thanks once again, Captain Obvious for continuing to beat that dead horse. Seriously, how long are you people going to bitch about this? It’s done and it’s a couple of months away. Do you really think that your post contributes anything by repeating the same rant that’s been echoed in every hater forum for the last two years?
thank man
@D9
I like that I was agreeing with you that the iPhone shouldn’t be labeled a “toy” and you still got all angry because I said that because the iPhone focuses more on multimedia features than business features it is “less serious.”
You act like this is some outlandish opinion. If a phone puts more focus and features into it’s display and music components, then I am sorry but those are entertainment features. That makes it overall “less serious.” It’s not like this is some horrible claim. Those entertainment features are what make is such a good seller.
And @evilhomer
Yeah, I agree they are old complaints (and soon to be invalid.) I was only bringing them up in response to D9’s claim that essentially said “Well now the iPhone has MMS and copy/paste, look out competitors!!!!”
Apple’s competitor’s don’t care and I don’t think a large number of people are waiting in the wings on these features before they take a dive into an AT&T contract.
Oh, and one last troll comment to give BGR a couple more hits…
MMS being included should NOT mean anything to most iPhone users, since most iPhone users were quick to tell you how obsolete it is when you have email on your phone (even though that same email client could only send a single picture and it was resized to MMS resolution anyway). If what they said was true, the addition of MMS should result in a resounding “Meh” from all the diehards and everyone who has waited for this feature should be the ones who are really excited. But we all know that’s not the case…
@Janus: I disagree. I think with so many of the younger generation buying smartphones now, MMS might have been a large hold back for many of them.
What I don’t really understand is this. Do the Trolls commenting on the negatives of the iPhone think that they are going to cause iPhone sales to drop? You haven’t bought one and aren’t going to, so that’s pretty much the extent of your impact on iPhones sales.
And I’ll say this as well. I would still give up MMS and C&P in trade for the incredible apps, games and business alike, that are on the iPhone. No other handheld platform has applications that look and run so beautifully as these.
So, be happy with whatever device that you have now that does MMS so you don’t wet yourself waiting to post some dumbass picture of yourself to your buddies. Unless you have an iPhone, you will NOT be enjoying the tens of thousands of applications out there. Keep your Nokia’s and BBs with your java based poop applications. Keep your WM so you can run 50 apps in the background and miss every other call that comes in because the device is frozen up.
But hey, at least you can MMS right now!
@evilhomer
I think I will let D9 answer that for me…
“I love posts where every “point” is made on complete opinion, self-absorption, and conjecture…it makes the dismissal so absolute.”
Thanks D9.
Do I think I am somehow impacting sales of the iPhone with my comments? What? Yes, you’ve finally caught on to my master plan of trying to hinder iPhone sales by making comments on a blog.
And these comments are not even that negative at all, there are a lot of points about the iPhone that I like a lot. If you’re looking for somebody that irrationally hates the iPhone, there are plenty of other posters to look at.
And to answer your question, i’ve messed around and used plenty of devices and my current device is a G1. And it’s been very good to me.
Yes, I have apps too, not the tens of thousands you do, but all the important ones are there, just the games are lacking. I have 15 tip calculators, you have 50, so what. You aren’t sorting thru all those tens of thousands of apps and trying them all out, you find one that does what you want it to smoothly and move on.
And the potential is greater because I have apps that the iPhone simply can’t have because they won’t allow your phone to multi-task. I can MMS, not that I do all that often. My phone doesn’t freeze and handles multiple apps quite well. I have a nice physical keyboard to type on. I have excellent chat/Email integration.
But on the downside the camera is iPhone level crap. No video recording and the overall design is “meh.”
Neither phone is perfect and zealots on any side of a debate are idiots to think that any well designed smartphone is light years beyond the others.
@Janus: Are you so arrogant that you think every post I make is directed at you?
And I could give a shit about your G1. The OS is nice but the hardware is crap. Post in a G1 thread and someone might care about it.
@Evilhomer
LOL, when you begin a post with “@Janus09:” I am going to go ahead and assume you are directing it at me. That’s not arrogance, that’s reading.
And I brought up the G1 because you were going thru iPhone competitors. Are you even aware of what you are typing?
Though I do agree with you that the hardware is (excluding keyboard) mostly crap.
@Janus: My mistake on that post. Actually only the first sentence of that comment was directed at you. I should have done a better job of defining that in the post.
As far as the G1, it’s not competition for the iPhone. Android itself may be on the right network and the right hardware, but as far as sales go, I think you would be hard pressed to find many that defected from the iPhone to the G1.
You MIGHT have seen a few more had it been on a better network. And blah blah, I’m not comparing network to network, but TMO is small and they have even less 3G coverage than AT&T.
And no, I don’t think the iPhone is perfect. No device ever will be not matter what it is or how feature packed. Perfection is such a relative term that it cannot be defined. So no matter what you see as perfection, someone else will find flaws with it. What I am saying is that for a LARGE majority of users, the iPhone gets fairly close to everyone you could want.
Popularity breed contempt and the iPhone certainly is it’s share of haters (not you) simply because most people really do love it. It does have the hight satisfaction rate of ANY device in the industry, so it must have something going for it. MMS or not.
And I wasn’t kidding about the negativity thing either. Some people must really think if they bitch about the iPhone enough, Apple will pull it off of the shelves.
@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.