iPhone MMS Dropping Early For Some

So if you pay AT&T or any other wireless carrier for crap service, you are directly at fault.

said by flyingjoey:

I was just down in South America for a week, and happened to have a 3gs unlocked and since I didn't want to be roaming at 3 dollars a minute I bought a local pre-paid sim card to my surprise as soon as I popped the SIM in, the MMS option became available. Furthermore the carrier offered prepaid customers a data option for $10 pesos (US$3.50) / 24 hours / 1 gig download.

I was there for 5 days, spent 50 pesos (or 13 dollars), had 5 gigs worth of download, would use skype over the cellular network to call back home (which I did very often). Was using SlingPlayer, was emailing pictures, at night at the hotel would stream movies and there was never an issue.

I really don't know what they're doing differently in Argentina (MoviStar), but I did notice speeds of 3Mbits a times both while tethering or using the SIM card in my unlocked USB Cell modem.

To make a long story short, why do I have to travel to Argentina in order to get deals like the one I got, and not here at home? Why can't AT&T keep up with other carriers?

said by Gbcue:

I love those advantages of GSM.

said by BB_Hunter:

I was running 3.0 with the 5.0 ipcc file an updated to 3.1 with the new 5.1 ipcc and everything is working great. I did have to change some of my carrier settings to get it to work though. So far I've sent and recieved about 90 mms's so far. I'm just glad to finally have it working.

Edit: btw I'm in Central PA.

said by Steve B:

I really understand where you're coming from. I got my MMS working early and I have to say I'm not impressed with it at all. My biggest gripe is how it handles animated .gif files that have sound in the background. Any other phone I've had will play the animted .gif while at the same time play the sound file in the background. The iPhone doesn't do that. I was told it would....O_o. Anyway, what it does, when you're looking at the .gif in the message thread, it will animate, however, when you click on the .gif, it no longer animates. The sound file doesn't play in the background either. You have to click on the sound file and it brings up a blank screen and tries to play the file. Making the whole point of that MMS pointless because it doesn't play the way it was intended. I just thought with all the time Apple took to ready 3.0 and MMS that they could've that part right.

said by Steve B:

Really? Damn. I have been on the edge of going to T-Mo or Sprint and either getting the MyTouch or Hero. Since its all Android, I'm wondering if those phones will behave in the same way as yours then.

said by morbo:

serious question: why did you get an iPhone if MMS and keeping in touch with your daughter that way is so important? surely you knew that MMS was not available and wouldn't be for a while.

said by gigahurtz:

I completely agree. It's not that AT&T/Apple claimed they had MMS yet didn't deliver. Customers knew that this feature was not offered yet customers still purchased it.

If you "relay" on MMS, don't get the iPhone.

said by morbo:

serious question: why did you get an iPhone if MMS and keeping in touch with your daughter that way is so important? surely you knew that MMS was not available and wouldn't be for a while.

said by Steven :

I notice a lot of folks are rather elitist about MMS. I have a daughter in Florida who likes to stay in touch by sending me pics of things she is doing and things that are going on in her life. She has a little $49 piece of garbage that can do that. I, with my big-time Iphone, have been unable to send or receive those bits of info, and that is VERY important to me and my wife. MMS is a way of staying in touch easily and efficiently with family members around the country. So yes, it is important, and it's about time (actually years late) that AT&T step up and stop treating us like second-class citizens. They might re-read the old story about the "golden goose".

said by patcat88:

Why not have her phone EMAIL the pics to you? All MMS phones can send to an email address.

said by Guspaz:

We've had MMS since the 3GS launched here in Canada, but at $0.50 per message, why would anybody use it?

If you want to send a video, you can upload to youtube and then email the link, and that's free.