ghetto MMS
jj and i both have iPhones now. we were both complaining last night about how much we miss being able to send photos to each other. we're both photographers and over the past few years, i think we've probably sent more MMSes to each other than any other form of communication...
i've been hoping for a software upgrade that would enable MMS, but because steve jobs doesn't need it, no one else does either, apparently. "just email it" everyone says. no. sorry. i don't want my phone set to check email every 15 minutes and even if i did, a 15 minute lag between notifications is no substitute for the fun, rapid-fire MMS conversations we sometimes get into :)
so right now, we gmail the pictures and then send a text message with "beeeeep!" in it. ghetto, i know. so i went looking for other solutions and all of the google results were douchey blogs telling people to send email to {phonenumber}@mms.att.net or whatever. but hello, that only works if the receiver *doesn't* have an iPhone! (iPhones get this craptacular message and have to hand enter this cryptic junk into a web browser on a computer since this site won't even load on an iPhone).
anyway, i did a test today for a different workaround. i dusted off my almost-never-used yahoo account, configured the iPhone's mail client to talk to it, and then turned on the Push feature. not quite MMS, but vastly preferable to typing "BEEEP!"
i've been hoping for a software upgrade that would enable MMS, but because steve jobs doesn't need it, no one else does either, apparently. "just email it" everyone says. no. sorry. i don't want my phone set to check email every 15 minutes and even if i did, a 15 minute lag between notifications is no substitute for the fun, rapid-fire MMS conversations we sometimes get into :)
so right now, we gmail the pictures and then send a text message with "beeeeep!" in it. ghetto, i know. so i went looking for other solutions and all of the google results were douchey blogs telling people to send email to {phonenumber}@mms.att.net or whatever. but hello, that only works if the receiver *doesn't* have an iPhone! (iPhones get this craptacular message and have to hand enter this cryptic junk into a web browser on a computer since this site won't even load on an iPhone).
anyway, i did a test today for a different workaround. i dusted off my almost-never-used yahoo account, configured the iPhone's mail client to talk to it, and then turned on the Push feature. not quite MMS, but vastly preferable to typing "BEEEP!"
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