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iPhone 3G Getting MMS Support?
Posted by Jason Chen at 3:12 AM on June 27, 2008
iPhoneAtlas claims to have received an internal AT&T memo detailing what the iPhone 3G MMS app might look like. Even iPhoneAtlas doesn't believe that these photos are 100% real, and lookin at the button layout and the UI design, we can pretty much say that these things better NOT be real. The memo doesn't list what kind of pricing will be on this mythical MMS plan, but since the iPhone won't have any included messages on AT&T by default, expect to be paying a little extra for picture messaging if this pans out. Likelihood of this being true? Not so good. [iPhoneAtlas via Boy Genius Report]
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Mayor McRib
Posted 4:12 AM 27/6/08
@s0x:
I'm sure the iPhone would be cheaper on T-Mobile too.
im just saying. dont compare the hype.
Mayor McRib
Joseph
Posted 4:11 AM 27/6/08
I could mock that up with 5 minutes in Interface Builder. If I don't see a video associated with the app, I'm going to assume it's fake.
Joseph
SilenceisGolden
Posted 4:10 AM 27/6/08
Apple should have all the capabilities WM6 should have..at the least. This why most people are whining about Copy/paste etc.
SilenceisGolden
s0x
Posted 4:04 AM 27/6/08
ive said it once and ill say it again
sidekick unlimited internet email txt msging picture msgs and my favs + takes video.... 80 bux a month including insurance.
iphone 900 min unlimited interenet unlimited txt msgs NO picture msgs NO video NO my favs. NO Insurance. 120 bux a month no insurance.....
im just saying. dont buy the hype.
s0x
SilenceisGolden
Posted 3:56 AM 27/6/08
This is retarded. You would think this is the last thing we would be discussing about a feature the iphone would have.
SilenceisGolden
justinpe
Posted 3:50 AM 27/6/08
@mnit:
I agree that it would be fairly simple to implement something like that, but I think Apple has some bigger fish to fry (Copy & Paste, MMS, video recording etc.). They will usually go after the most complained about features first in order to make their customers happy. For example, the new firmware will allow contact search, multiple calendars, save images from emails, more attachments supported, multiple email deletion, 3rd party apps, etc.
Those were typically the most complained about things that the 1st iPhone lacked. I'll bet that we see lowercase letters displayed on future updates, but it seems like a silly thing to complain about at this point.
justinpe
mnit
Posted 3:42 AM 27/6/08
@justinpe: I agree, but you think it'd be a small step to make it go lowercase when the shift wasn't down.
mnit
justinpe
Posted 3:40 AM 27/6/08
@gotsmart:
That's how most standard physical keyboards are laid out, with all caps. I suppose you have an Optimus Maximus keyboard???
Guess I'm not sure why it is such a big deal. How hard is it to understand that when the shift key is not active that the letters will be typed in lower case?
justinpe
mnit
Posted 3:39 AM 27/6/08
On closer inspection, the original article over at iPhone Atlas never uses the SwirlyMMS screenshots. It just says they've had "corroborated word" of MMS support being listed as a feature of the new iPhone. It would appear that maybe BGR added these screenshots just for illustration.
Fingers crossed the memo is legit.
mnit
aeroworks
Posted 3:37 AM 27/6/08
hahahahah, that really is SwirrlyMMS.
What really blows about this app, is the fact that it won't veiw the damn messages! only receives them. in order to veiw them you need to get another program called IMMESS
way to go giz on the rumor injecting. i was feeling a bit down since the 3g was announced and the mill stoped pumping out fresh rumors.
aeroworks
mnit
Posted 3:36 AM 27/6/08
I'm not arsed about not being able to send MMS messages, it'd just be useful if I could receive them instead of having to fart about with all that o2 website polava. Then again if they implemented receiving I suppose it'd be a small step to implement sending. Shrug.
mnit
frigg???
Posted 3:33 AM 27/6/08
With MMS, cut and paste, and a few more functions, iPhone bashers will have less and less to bash about. As as a techno-conservationist, that concerns me, as I would hate to see iPhone bashers become an endangered species.
frigg???
littleSavage
Posted 3:28 AM 27/6/08
I'm hoping iPhone 2.0 will finally have landscape (horizontal) keyboard orientation for ALL apps, not just URL entry.
That is the single most annoying feature absent from day 1 in my opinion.
littleSavage
pzich
Posted 3:27 AM 27/6/08
Personally, I think that looks too ugly to be Apple's, it really doesn't seem to match the rest of the iPhone style completely either.
pzich
chizelord
Posted 3:27 AM 27/6/08
dont need it, dont care
chizelord
cashoverass
Posted 3:26 AM 27/6/08
haha, tmobile...
cashoverass
fastthumbs
Posted 3:23 AM 27/6/08
In the current iPhone software, Apple always puts the plus signs in the text fields, not next to them. Fake, but it looks like we have the answer already with SwirlyMMS.
fastthumbs
rxe7en
Posted 3:22 AM 27/6/08
I've never really used MMS before, but while the wife was away I wanted to send her some photos of the kids I took on the phone. Ended up researching this and found (which I'm sure everyone knows but me) that I could email the photos to her MMS "account". For anyone that's not familiar, here's a good link on how to do it-this also avoids charges for the non-existent MMS on the iPhone. [www.modmyifone.com]
rxe7en
Ken_Darrow
Posted 3:21 AM 27/6/08
Fake. Steve Jobs for some crazy reason doesn't believe MMS is needed. He thinks rich HTML that you can embed large high quality images is the right thing to do to for future smartphones.
Ken_Darrow
shorty63136
Posted 3:21 AM 27/6/08
Yeah, I was about to say. That looks an awwwwwful lot like SwirlyMMS.
iPhone Atlas needs to do better. My iPhone screenshots look just like that. Internal memo my ass.
shorty63136
Shifty203
Posted 3:20 AM 27/6/08
@ar7983:
My thoughts exactly. Why would AT&T Have a leaked screenshot of a phone on another provider, when that provider isn't even getting said phone.
Shifty203
mnit
Posted 3:19 AM 27/6/08
Yeah, that's SwirlyMMS, an app for jaibroken iPhones.
[blog.swirlyspace.com]
mnit
ar7983
Posted 3:18 AM 27/6/08
Plus, internal memo with T-Mobile at the top?
ar7983
gotsmart
Posted 3:18 AM 27/6/08
I can't believe they still haven't put a case-sensitive keyboard in the iPhone. The keys should NOT be displaying upper-case letters when i'm typing in lower-case.
gotsmart
Neone
Posted 4:51 AM 27/6/08
E-Mail FTW!
MMS, like SMS, is just another reason for companies to charge you 5 billion dollars a month more for the iPhone. Do I want that? The iPhone and it's rate plans is expensive as it is...
Neone
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Posted 4:41 AM 27/6/08
@s0x: That's why I stick with T-Mobile. Unfortunately, T-Mobile's lineup is fucking shit.
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
DMcGrew
Posted 4:35 AM 27/6/08
@gotsmart: Tell that to the keyboard you are typing on dumbass..
DMcGrew
Shabbis
Posted 5:26 AM 27/6/08
Fake! Or at least not an app from Apple. If the iPhone gets a MMS app from Apple, it'll look will be the SMS app that is there right now with an option at the bottom to include multimedia in a "text bubble" just like how iChat works in OS X.
Shabbis
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
Posted 5:16 AM 27/6/08
@gotsmart: The keystroke is a lie.
Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!
SilenceisGolden
Posted 5:14 AM 27/6/08
i forgot, does the new iphone have tactile feedback?
SilenceisGolden
gotsmart
Posted 5:10 AM 27/6/08
All caps on the keyboard is a throwback to hardware keys, and doesn't really matter because most people touch-type anyway.
On a soft keyboard where you HAVE to look at the keys because there's no tactile feedback, there's no reason why the keys should not reflect the current case status of the characters.
It doesn't bother me as much when i'm typing, but having to double-check every single keystroke when entering a password. That's where the weakness of the mono-case keyboard really shows.
gotsmart
Totorototoro
Posted 5:02 AM 27/6/08
I use SMS somewhat regularly, and have for a couple years-I know my old Sony-Ericsson could send/receive MMS, but I never used the feature. No one I SMS with has ever sent me an MMS.
Who uses this feature? Is it a teenager thing?
Totorototoro
Totorototoro
Posted 6:13 AM 27/6/08
@gotsmart:
"having to double-check every single keystroke when entering a password."
did you see that nifty feature on the iPhone 2.0 software? It shows you the password text as you enter it before replacing it with asterisks? I definitely need that.
Totorototoro
dplynvolvd
Posted 4:41 AM 27/6/08
I'm surprised that no one checked the number on the screen-shot. I still have a Tampa, Florida Number, so I recognized the number on the screen-shot to be a Tampa number... Well, I called it and got Hungry Howies Pizza in Citrus Park, Tampa, FL. Not really sure how you would send a MMS to a pizza joint, maybe it was selected at ramdom... Maybe the screen-shot is fake..... Who knows..... I do know that Hungry Howies pizza sucks......
dplynvolvd
SilenceisGolden
Posted 6:54 AM 27/6/08
@SilenceisGolden: did anyone have any knowledge about the tactile feedback?
SilenceisGolden
stoleriko
Posted 6:45 AM 27/6/08
the year:2008
can't believe that someone is selling a phone with no mms support...
stoleriko
James
Posted 8:05 AM 27/6/08
There's absolutely no way those shots are real. MMS maybe, but not that interface. no way, jose.
James
DaKidJordan
Posted 9:25 AM 27/6/08
listen guys guys its just a picture calm down that was not on the memo itself boy genius just posted the pic why the hell would they have an unlocked iPhone on a AT&T memo? thats just retarded listen if this is true i bet alot of people would be happy and we would have one of the features that every phone in the world does haha maybe they could actually get copy and paste ..... no no no thats absurd i mean damn they would have to patent something as crazy as that or maybe even a wireless sync? huh? huh? nahhh how about some bluetooth stereo? hey now were talking i know anone over there at apple can whip up a simple app in about 5 minutes why make us suffer apple? who know maybe next year the WWDC will introduce the "iPhone MMS" oooh ahhhh "wait one more thing..... copy and paste people.....copy and paste."
DaKidJordan
rimplestultskin
Posted 9:16 AM 27/6/08
...so bullshit has already been called, but apple really, really needs to get on the MMS bandwagon. they can't claim a hardware issue, since both the current-gen iPhone and the iPhone 3G can email pictures, and a text with a picture attached isn't all that different from an email with a picture attached, apple is just....
shit, i just realized something. the iPhone has MMS in its own way. it can't recieve MMS at all, or send it the normal way, but if you know what provider your intended recipient(s) has, you can email the picture to their phone number, and they recieve it like a text.
for example: recipient@vtext.com, replace recipient with the recipient's number, will picture mail anyone with verizon. so, for a temporary fix, let's all try that. recipient@messaging.sprintpcs.com does the same for a sprint or nextel number.
rimplestultskin
geircito
Posted 8:47 AM 27/6/08
Those screenshot's ARE from SwirlyMMS 0.3.8.
There is a new version out today, 1.0 with FULL built-in viewer.....
geircito
MikeTy
Posted 1:18 AM 28/6/08
'bout time! the iPhone is coming with 3G and GPS but it's lacking several essential features (copy-paste anyone?)
Here's a few things it's missing: [www.internetevolution.com]
MikeTy