Re: iphone2 - why no MMS?

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<megadethguy-3033A2.08541404072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Megadave <megadethguy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>>>> but MMS? yeah, thats a useful feature.
>>>> 
>>>> anybody have an inside track on why such a common feature is
>>>> sorely lacking here?
>>> 
>>> I'm repeating myself here (see my reply to Michelle) also but...
>>> 
>>> I'd guess the reason the MMS isn't in iPhone is that AT&T wants to
>>> generate more revenue from the data services capabilities of the
>>> iPhone. Also MMS is a rather restrictive and problem-wrought
>>> protocol.  For example.. sending an MMS picture between phone
>>> networks almost never works (picture is stripped) and between two
>>> different devices can have issues too (the receiving phone might
>>> not like the binary payload of pic data).
>> 
>> MMS works flawlessly in Sweden. I can't imagine why it would be a
>> problem in the states.
> 
> See what Madwen said.  In the US the industry evolved differently -
> compound that with MMS already showing it's age after so few years
> in existence and you get the problems that MMS has in the US.

He described nothing different between Sweden and USA in regards to 
MMS, actually. Here it works like a charm...


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