Since the iPhone hit the scene my wife made a point to say how was appauled and disappointed she was that it does not support MMS and she will not get one until it does. For her this was the breaking point that no amount of advertising or hype could change. And for many people I’m sure this remains true. I can’t say that not being able send or receive MMS hasn’t been a litttle annoying for me but I do understand why it was left out.
The under lying issue is that MMS is not 100% interoperable between cellular carriers. I experienced this first hand when I started using it on a T-Mobile Dash just 3 years ago. I would receive an MMS and the audio would not play or the text that came with it would not show. The other cravat was that it would simply not send the message in the first place of I would get a blank message altogether. Read More »
