iPhone MMS and o2

Justin said:
MMS is supported on the iPhone.

There's an app on the App Store somewhere called 'MMS' in the top 10.
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All that app does is grab the message from the website you'd traditionally use to view MMS on a vanilla iPhone, and format it into an iPhone-esque gui. There's no push on it either so you have to routinely open the app to check for new messages. Not only that but there's no interaction with O2 when sending the MMS, it goes via the application's server that you have to have credit on to use. So you have to paypal them credit in order to send an MMS. It's crap.

Swirly is fantastic and a properly integrated MMS application, far better than this crap.
 
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Ahh, didn't realise that. Saw an app called MMS and just thought that Apple had let people make a proper app at last.
 
Simply put if you're actually serious about having MMS then jailbreaking is the only way to go. Then you get all the benefits of having a jailbroken device too.
 
z0mbi3 said:
Simply put if you're actually serious about having MMS then jailbreaking is the only way to go. Then you get all the benefits of having a jailbroken device too.
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What are these benefits?

Not trying to troll but now the app store is here I can't see me ever jailbreaking.
 
depends really on what you want to do with it. custom themes are nice, all the free games again cant quibble, catagories is a great app, dont know if thats on the app store or not.
 
EVH said:
What are these benefits?

Not trying to troll but now the app store is here I can't see me ever jailbreaking.
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It's a fair point, things have certainly improved now that the app store is here. I'll list a few of the benefits of jailbreaking, as I see them, below:

  • Custom themes (including wallpapers, video wallpapers, battery, icons etc)
  • Custom system sounds (e.g. keypad beeps).
  • Easy and vast access to custom ringtones
  • Applications apple won't let through the app store (e.g SwilryMMS, iRealSMS, PDANet, Cycorder and that call filtering one)
  • Carrying on from the last point, applications that are better able to make use of the iPhone by not having to conform to Apple's rules (e.g StatusNotifier for puting icons in your tray at the top, MXTube for downloading youtube clips, or VLC).
  • 5 item dock!

There's some cross over there, but it sums up a few of the plus points in general. I certainly can't see any reason against jailbreaking.
 
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*Strokes chin fluff*

Interesting.. I use my bro's iPhone 2G to experiment, so I can't speak from experience about jailbreaking (not had a jailbroke iPhone since I got my 3G)
 
Jailbreaking is one of these things that you worry about until you do it for the first time then afterwards wonder why you didn't do it ages ago :D
 
Can anyone tell me why SwirlyMMS won't be allowed on the AppStore? I have a jailbroken phone so its not too much problem for me but seems silly that Apple would block it.
 
Kyle009 said:
Can anyone tell me why SwirlyMMS won't be allowed on the AppStore? I have a jailbroken phone so its not too much problem for me but seems silly that Apple would block it.
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I don't know if anyone here can answer that with any authority but I believe it's got something to do with apple encouraging people to use their mail services instead of MMS.

Seperatley I think uses it's own daemon to pick up new messages, something I don't believe Apple allows approved apps to do.

It's a bit chicken & egg though as I doubt apple would let a propper MMS app on to start with.
 
Can I ask how many people actually use MMS I have not received an MMS in years, the only times I ever sent them or received them was when someone got a new phone and wanted to try it out.

What do people use it for?
 
Another massive benefit of jailbreaking for me was 'backgrounder' which inputs the ability to press and hold the home button to minimize apps but let them run in the background. :)
 
z0mbi3 said:
I don't know if anyone here can answer that with any authority but I believe it's got something to do with apple encouraging people to use their mail services instead of MMS.

Seperatley I think uses it's own daemon to pick up new messages, something I don't believe Apple allows approved apps to do.

It's a bit chicken & egg though as I doubt apple would let a propper MMS app on to start with.
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it would also be a loss of face for Apple, after them blathering on about how MMS was outdated tech and no one needs it, then having a 3rd party raking in the cash from selling their own MMS app in the official Apple store. Would be pretty embarassing. Same goes for video recording...
 
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