iPhone MMS on Sept 25 (AT&T)

[James Bond]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/0...phone-on-september-25/

 

[ViviTheMage]

woo hoo

from the horses mouth :

http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=1574

 

[Kmax82]

Wow.. let's see how many more dropped calls I get once this is actually turned on. I swear I'm so done with AT&T.

 

[Nothinman]

Wow, next thing you know they'll let you run more than one app at a time!

 

[secretanchitman]

ive been getting around the lack of MMS by emailing my friends pictures to their cellphone email address (@tmomail.net, etc). this will finally eliminate that...and its about time too!

i cant complain about gay-t&t's service in my area though...ive never had a dropped call and my signal has been stellar - way better than my touch pro, which always got 1-2 bars.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Wow, next thing you know they'll let you run more than one app at a time!

If AT&T had any control over that, sure.😛

Anyhow, I still don't get the big deal about MMS. Have fun paying out the rear end for text messages, meanwhile your data plan is effectively unlimited.

 

[Nothinman]

If AT&T had any control over that, sure.

You can't deny that AT&T has some influence over Apple's decisions about the iPhone.

Anyhow, I still don't get the big deal about MMS. Have fun paying out the rear end for text messages, meanwhile your data plan is effectively unlimited.

MMS is included in my unlimited SMS plan with Verizon, is AT&T going to charge for them separately?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
Wow.. let's see how many more dropped calls I get once this is actually turned on. I swear I'm so done with AT&T.

What's funny is...so what if another new popular phone came out with a camera...every single other phone in the universe has MMS standard on it...so what's the big deal? 😛 Can't wait for a CDMA iPhone, I'm jumping ship to Verizon same day 😀

 

[Ka0t1x]

He's saying that in addition to the iPhone's data plan ($30) you still need to pay a fee for text messaging. Which is clearly considered "data" to most of the world.

To me this means nothing because I'm perfectly happy with my 450mins/mo with rollover.. but I don't use voice that much, text and data is all I'm after. Compared to other carriers a meager $100/mo isn't so bad.

 

[Kmax82]

Originally posted by: Kaido
What's funny is...so what if another new popular phone came out with a camera...every single other phone in the universe has MMS standard on it...so what's the big deal? 😛 Can't wait for a CDMA iPhone, I'm jumping ship to Verizon same day 😀

I don't even want SMS or MMS. I'm content to just use IM, or the other million text alternatives. The problem is my wife won't use anything else, so we're stuck with it at the moment, until I can convince her to switch.

[rant]
My main issue is that over the last couple months, I have dropped pretty much 2-5 calls per day. This is unacceptable. If you can't handle the load that is being put on your network, then stop selling phones, or pipe more money into your infrastructure. I'm so sick and tired of their, "Oh poor us, the iPhone is destroying our network." Really? Basically what it boils down to is AT&T got handed a superb opportunity and they flushed it down the drain. They have gotten more bad press because of the iPhone and it only gets worse as they make a big deal about little features like this. Ugh...
[/end rant]

 

[NaOH]

SOL for 2G owners =(

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

If AT&T had any control over that, sure.

You can't deny that AT&T has some influence over Apple's decisions about the iPhone.

Oh sure, otherwise we would have things like Skype and Slingplayer. But I don't believe for a moment that they're the ones killing the idea of multitasking. That would be all Apple.

Anyhow, I still don't get the big deal about MMS. Have fun paying out the rear end for text messages, meanwhile your data plan is effectively unlimited.

MMS is included in my unlimited SMS plan with Verizon, is AT&T going to charge for them separately?

I bolded the important part. You already pay $30 a month for 5GB of data with the iPhone; then AT&T wants to charge you another $2/MB (or $20/month) for text messages, because somehow they're not data <insert a "I just saw a 2 in a binary stream!" joke here>.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Kmax82

Originally posted by: Kaido
What's funny is...so what if another new popular phone came out with a camera...every single other phone in the universe has MMS standard on it...so what's the big deal? 😛 Can't wait for a CDMA iPhone, I'm jumping ship to Verizon same day 😀

I don't even want SMS or MMS. I'm content to just use IM, or the other million text alternatives. The problem is my wife won't use anything else, so we're stuck with it at the moment, until I can convince her to switch.

[rant]
My main issue is that over the last couple months, I have dropped pretty much 2-5 calls per day. This is unacceptable. If you can't handle the load that is being put on your network, then stop selling phones, or pipe more money into your infrastructure. I'm so sick and tired of their, "Oh poor us, the iPhone is destroying our network." Really? Basically what it boils down to is AT&T got handed a superb opportunity and they flushed it down the drain. They have gotten more bad press because of the iPhone and it only gets worse as they make a big deal about little features like this. Ugh...
[/end rant]

I hate getting MMS on my iPhone, because I can't read them natively. It always wants me to go to a website, type in a passcode, blah blah blah. Sorry, don't have the attention span for that lol.

Edit: Also, no joke. I could count on one hand how many times my Verizon phones dropped calls, whereas I need that hand count daily with my iPhone 😀

 

[speg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD4ThSJxslw

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: Ka0t1x
He's saying that in addition to the iPhone's data plan ($30) you still need to pay a fee for text messaging. Which is clearly considered "data" to most of the world.

Most carriers around the world still charge for text messages separately from data. My overseas cellphone account in Taiwan charges an equivalent of $0.15 per international text, $0.03/in-network text, and $0.10/out-bound text, which are in effect roughly the same as how much they are in the States. Flat rate of USD$0.15/MMS.

AND cellphone service is supposedly cheaper in Asia?

What's the point of this response? Text messages and MMS are ripoffs, compared to the cost of data alone.

I do wish carriers in the US offer more data-only options though. My Taiwanese cell account gives me 500MB of 3G data without port restrictions for USD$13.75, with a maximum cap of $30/month if bandwidth is exceeded. On top of that I pay no monthly fees for voice calls and simply get billed by the second.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

If AT&T had any control over that, sure.

You can't deny that AT&T has some influence over Apple's decisions about the iPhone.

Anyhow, I still don't get the big deal about MMS. Have fun paying out the rear end for text messages, meanwhile your data plan is effectively unlimited.

MMS is included in my unlimited SMS plan with Verizon, is AT&T going to charge for them separately?

No, it will be just like your Verizon plan.

 

[mmntech]

I've had mms all along on Rogers/Fido. Never used it though. I prefer other IM apps like AIM as the number I can send is virtually unlimited. Personally, I've never understood the allure of texting all the time. I can see why AT&T customers want mms though. Apple really dropped the ball signing an exclusive deal with them. I've heard nothing but negative things.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: mmntech
I've had mms all along on Rogers/Fido. Never used it though. I prefer other IM apps like AIM as the number I can send is virtually unlimited. Personally, I've never understood the allure of texting all the time. I can see why AT&T customers want mms though. Apple really dropped the ball signing an exclusive deal with them. I've heard nothing but negative things.

Apple didn't drop the ball, they took the best deal they could at the time. They went to Verizon first, but Verizon told them to take a hike. It's funny how most people forget, or don't know that.

 

[Parasitic]

Problem with AT&T is that they're pretty much the only choice in the US when it comes to a GSM/UMTS provider, and after all for Apple to think globally they have to go GSM/UMTS. The iPhone isn't cheap to develop and make, and just imagine what the added costs will be if they had to do CDMA/UMTS dual mode.

 

[NiKeFiDO]

Originally posted by: Ka0t1x
He's saying that in addition to the iPhone's data plan ($30) you still need to pay a fee for text messaging. Which is clearly considered "data" to most of the world.

To me this means nothing because I'm perfectly happy with my 450mins/mo with rollover.. but I don't use voice that much, text and data is all I'm after. Compared to other carriers a meager $100/mo isn't so bad.

Paying for texting has always been a scam. It's technical different from 'data' as it uses the same thing as voice while email/apps/internet/whatever will use Edge or 3g or whatever your phone is equipped to handle. Basically you've always paid for a few extra bits of voice data. Total scam. (At least, that's how it's been explained to me...)