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Native MMS Application for iPhone

Wednesday December 5, 2007 11:36 pm PST by Arnold Kim
A native MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) application has been released for the iPhone. The 0.1 release only allows sending MMS messages and will not receive them. MMS allows you to send multimedia (such as photos) to others via text-messaging. In it's current incarnation, the iPhone only supports SMS (text messaging).

The application is still an early version and requires some manual setup to work with your provider. More information is available on the author's blog.

Owners of "hacked" iPhones can install it using Installer.app.
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mpuck972
Posted: 55 months ago
There is an APP to send MMS messages. Looks pretty cool, but I cant get it to work yet. It also says they are working on getting it to receive MMS messages too.

Info:

http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20032

Anyone know how to get the MMSC and Proxy Server Settings???
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chr1s60
Posted: 55 months ago
If it doesn't make it so you can receive them what is the point? You can already send them through email. Not much use for this until you can also receive messages.
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erandall38
Posted: 55 months ago
Well if this App actually works and gets to the point where you can send and receive, there is going to be a lot of happy people on here.

My question, and the main reason why I don't mind using email to send photos from my phone, does it cost money still?
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R.Youden
Posted: 55 months ago

Well if this App actually works and gets to the point where you can send and receive, there is going to be a lot of happy people on here.

My question, and the main reason why I don't mind using email to send photos from my phone, does it cost money still?


I don't think so. Your email usage will be covered in your data plan, that is if you are not using a hacked phone. If it is hacked and not on an official iPhone tariff then you may have to pay for data usage.
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MarkW19
Posted: 55 months ago
This is great for me.

If anyone sends an MMS to my phone, I can just view it on the O2 website.

But, I can't send MMS to other people AT ALL, and emailing usually isn't an option as most of my friends aren't tech-savvy enough to use email on their mobiles.

This is very useful.
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Piarco
Posted: 55 months ago
I've been using the O2 MMS web app from the Apple Web App page. No need to log onto the O2 website any more, when you get an "MMS is waiting" text just go to the web app - nice, simple and the pictures are displayed a LOT better than the O2 preview. It'll do until there is a real MMS application...
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mingisback
Posted: 55 months ago
Example:
Open Mail App.
Send Pic to address 3135551212@mms.att.net

Voila! They just received an MMS from your iPhone.

And most other phones can email out..... so receiving a pic on your iPhone isn't a big deal either.
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horrgakx
Posted: 55 months ago

My question, and the main reason why I don't mind using email to send photos from my phone, does it cost money still?


If you mean 'does email cost money' it depends on your contract. For example my O2 contract had 1Mb per month (which is nothing). Exceed that and I'd be faced with heavy charges. However I've bought a bolt-on for £7.50 / month which ups it to 250Mb of data. So I can send emails all day long as long as every month my total usage is within that 250Mb of data.

Of course MMS and TXT's are charged individually.
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bytethese
Posted: 55 months ago

Example:
Open Mail App.
Send Pic to address 3135551212@mms.att.net

Voila! They just received an MMS from your iPhone.

And most other phones can email out..... so receiving a pic on your iPhone isn't a big deal either.


This is great for my friends who have AT&T. But My sister has Nextel, friends have Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. I don't know who has what service off the top of my head so knowing which email address to use to send a MMS becomes a bit tedious. :)

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather email everyone anyway, but the fact that MMS is so pervasive in the market and is the method of choice on mobile phones, being able to send and eventually receive these rocks. :)
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Piarco
Posted: 55 months ago

Example:
Open Mail App.
Send Pic to address 3135551212@mms.att.net

Voila! They just received an MMS from your iPhone.

And most other phones can email out..... so receiving a pic on your iPhone isn't a big deal either.


Doesn't work in the UK to my knowledge, and I can count the people I know who use email on their (personal - friends with Blackberrys use them exclusively for work) phones on 1 finger... and they have an iPhone. MMS is a bigger deal in the UK than the States.
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