On a recent post, I backed up Apple’s case for not having MMS implemented on the iPhone as-of-late. I still stand behind my case, except it did cause me a little bit of grief the last two days.
I’ve recently become the uncle of a beautiful, 7 lbs. 6 oz, baby boy. born two days ago (7/23/08) It’s very exciting and I can’t wait to visit him, my sister, and brother-in-law this weekend. Thankfully, we’re in the age of sharing copious amounts of information in various ways, from email, text messaging, and even tweets. So, naturally, I ask my brother-in-law to send me a shot of the baby. I tell him that the iPhone doesn’t have picture messaging capabilities and that he could just email it to me. He told me he would email to me when they got to the house a few days later. I was in a rush (and was at work) so I agreed and told him to email it when he could. After getting some paperwork out of the way, I decided to text my sister and my brother-in-law and tell them they could email me directly from the phone. I sent a few texts explaining the process – basically start a picture message as usual and instead of a phone number in the “To:” field, just put my email address. I didn’t get a response, which makes sense as the baby had just been born 12 hours ago and they were most likely exhausted. I let it slide and called my dad later that night.
I talked to my ecstatic father, he told me that he didn’t have a picture to email but my mom had a picture on her phone. He then passed the phone to my mother and I asked her if she could email me the photo.
Before I go on, let me set a little background on my mother. My mother is filipino (which is where I get my awesome tan) and her natural dialect is Tagalog. In Tagalog, syllables and words are much shorter and, therefore, one who speaks the language has an extremely fast tongue.
Alright, picking up from where I left off. Not only does she have a very fast tongue and can talk at 120 sps (syllables per second), but add to that a frustrated feeling of messing with a gadget that isn’t working correctly. This is a recipe for a conversation disaster. Each time as I attempted to throw a solution she would repeat the problem to me and we would get in that cut-off jive. I would start something, then I’d stop to let her say something while she would stop to let me say something… a vicious circle.
Finally she handed the phone off to my brother and he explained the problem. Long story short, the message was somehow not downloading from the server so he would text my brother-in-law, get the photo, and send it to me. The next day, somewhere around noon, I received the photo.
I guess there are times where MMS would be great on the iPhone 3G, but really, I think I can live without it. 
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