iphone/at&t baffles me with SMS vs MMS
Thursday, July 10th, 2008, 8:36 am, by mg.
It’s obvious at&t want you to use email to send attachments, but what I’m confused about is the complicated way they address this when a friend sends you a picture via MMS, and at&t converts the message with a URL that goes to viewmymessage.com and generates, each time, a different (and very complicated) username and password for you to input so you can view it.
It’s not so much that it sends you to a website to view, but the fact you have to toggle back and forth many times because you can’t remember this complicated user information. Since it’s automated, and since it goes directly to your phone, why not just have a link to an image. Why not assign just a single username and password. It just doesn’t make sense with all the technology at hand.
Grrr
forced Says:
This bs they put you through is actually not AT&Ts fault -it’s Apples. For the same reason as why there is no copy and paste on the iPhone, there is no support for the well defined and universal standard multimedia message (MMS). That reason is ??? - who knows.
Almost all cell phones have long supported MMS. My kids cheap ($15) emergency only prepaid phone supports MMS. But not daddys ridiculudly expensive first generation iPhone. Worse, the iPhone didn’t let you save pictures that were attached in their workaround for MMS, using email - until the recent version 2 iPhone update released with the 3g iphone.
AT&T cobbled together the silly process you described for use - we were told - Apple added MMS support in an upcoming update. It never arrived.
I love my iPhone - it’s what a phone should be, mostly. The stuid omissions of basic functionality while they promote it’s cool new features is infuriating!
Yet I use it - what can I say.