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Originally Posted by WillyDavidK

Yes, but it's so much easier to complain constantly about MMS than it is to accept that you are using a smartphone, and should be using email instead.

I completely disagree with that. The iphone is advertised as the "Most technologically advanced media phone ever developed". And not having something as simple as MMS capability is just stupid.

Also, its hard to use email when the majority of people out there are using MMS and NOT email to send pictures.

And I've never even seen a smartphone that didnt offer MMS capability. Really, I'm not sure if you can even buy a cellphone nowadays without it....its almost considered a "basic" function now.

[WillyDavidK]

Well, that may be part of the reason it isn't on the iPhone. Apple has a reputation for abandoning dated technologies earlier than any other company. I recently did some... er.. 'work' on an old iMac G3 from 1999, and it came with a usb mouse and keyboard (even tho the mouse wasn't even optical) and there was no trace of a PS/2 port anywhere on the computer. Apple is famous (or infamous, depending on how you look at it) for doing this kind of thing.

Also, remember that SMS and email are actually exactly the same thing, your phone number has its own email address with your carrier, and emails sent to this address show up as a text on your phone. You can actually email people on their phone directly, and they will get a text from a number such as 0 (101) 100-001 or something similar with your name at the beginning of the message. I'm not sure exactly how MMS differs, but AFAIK it's still based on email.

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I've had MMS on my phones for as long as I can remember (Certainly my Ericsson t68 had it) and have probably sent no more than about half a dozen MMSs - email is much better for what I need.

That doesn't mean others don't want MMS (I don't see the point in paying 25p for an MMS when email is free) and is no excuse for Apple not to include it.

Dropping dated technology? Yet they keep SMS.

The iPhone is IMHO the best phone on the market for me - but please don't try and make out it's perfect. It has some very small problems (we all know what they are) which I am surprised Apple haven't fixed yet. They are all relatively minor and, I believe, easily fixed with FW updates.

Maybe in 2.3....