MMS on iPhone?

Utopia Parkway · 26-02-2009 10:10pm #1

OK so I recently decided to try out the iPhone as I was due an upgrade from O2 for ages so I took the plunge. Happy enough with it but obviously there is no MMS. I knew this before getting it but I figured I rarely used the MMS feature on my old phone anyway. However I would still like the option to have it as occasionally I get sent MMS messages. What are my options as regards getting MMS on my iPhone?

I'm bill pay with O2 by the way.

Random · 26-02-2009 10:16pm

Have a look at this
http://forums.o2online.ie/forums/showthread.php?t=3322

CivilEx · 27-02-2009 12:13am

SwirlyMMS is available now through Cydia. Works fine.

rai555 · 28-02-2009 7:35pm

CivilEx wrote: »

SwirlyMMS is available now through Cydia. Works fine.

I believe you must subscribe for the MMS service from O2, didn't worked for me

CivilEx · 28-02-2009 7:42pm

rai555 wrote: »

I believe you must subscribe for the MMS service from O2, didn't worked for me

You need to ring Customer Care and ask them to provision it on your account

rai555 · 01-03-2009 2:24pm

CivilEx wrote: »

You need to ring Customer Care and ask them to provision it on your account

would they tell ya that iPhone not able for mms?

CivilEx · 01-03-2009 2:48pm

rai555 wrote: »

would they tell ya that iPhone not able for mms?

I think any iPhone user is entitled to take the sim card out of their phone and use it another phone if they wanted to send a MMS. I don't think CC will have any issues with this.

Utopia Parkway · 03-03-2009 4:18pm

CivilEx wrote: »

SwirlyMMS is available now through Cydia. Works fine.

What is it? Some application you download?

Tom Dunne · 03-03-2009 4:30pm

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

What is it? Some application you download?

Google is your friend here.

CivilEx · 03-03-2009 4:32pm

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

What is it? Some application you download?

Cydia is a bit like the App store (only on Jailbroken phones). SwirlyMMS is an Application that you can download from it

Mr Bloat · 04-03-2009 12:30am

If someone sends a MMS to my iPhone, I get a regular text with an url and a password that allows me to view the picture online. Works great and keeps all my MMS pictures centralised on the webpage. A fine solution, if you ask me.

Random · 04-03-2009 8:18pm

Mr Bloat wrote: »

If someone sends a MMS to my iPhone, I get a regular text with an url and a password that allows me to view the picture online. Works great and keeps all my MMS pictures centralised on the webpage. A fine solution, if you ask me.

O2 no longer provide this service.

Mr Bloat · 04-03-2009 11:04pm

Random wrote: »

O2 no longer provide this service.

Now that sucks. Why the hell did they stop this service? Surely it wasn't costing that much to host a few small photos on a webpage? Here was I, dead impressed with a good service and it's gone without so much as a by your leave.:mad:

Random · 04-03-2009 11:49pm

Mr Bloat wrote: »

Now that sucks. Why the hell did they stop this service? Surely it wasn't costing that much to host a few small photos on a webpage? Here was I, dead impressed with a good service and it's gone without so much as a by your leave.:mad:

Operational reasons or something. Seen a thread on the O2 forum but can't find it now to link you to it. They have something else planned for later this year.

The texts that you get sending you to the O2 website to check your MMS if it's not setup on your handset should stop within the next few days.

Mr Bloat · 05-03-2009 12:15am

Random wrote: »

Operational reasons or something. Seen a thread on the O2 forum but can't find it now to link you to it. They have something else planned for later this year.

The texts that you get sending you to the O2 website to check your MMS if it's not setup on your handset should stop within the next few days.

Bah, it still sucks.
It's stopped now, I sent myself a mms from my wife's phone earlier and nothing. The address that I used to be sent to is down. Does someone get charged if they send me a MMS, not realising I can't receive them?

Tom Dunne · 05-03-2009 9:35am

Random wrote: »

O2 no longer provide this service.

Meteor still do.

Random · 05-03-2009 7:31pm

A Dog Named Boo wrote: »

Meteor still do.

As do Vodafone. What's your point?

Does someone get charged if they send me a MMS, not realising I can't receive them?

Yes they will. Networks charge you when you send (generally) and not whether the other person receives or not.

CivilEx · 05-03-2009 9:55pm

Random wrote: »

O2 no longer provide this service.

If O2 have stopped this service, what have they done in lieu of it? Surely there is a mechanism to retrieve an MMS even if your phone does not have that feature

Random · 05-03-2009 10:02pm

CivilEx wrote: »

If O2 have stopped this service, what have they done in lieu of it? Surely there is a mechanism to retrieve an MMS even if your phone does not have that feature

You simply won't get the MMS if your phone is not setup is how I understand it according to how Daryll (or may have been Paddy) explained it on the O2 forum.

CivilEx · 05-03-2009 11:17pm

Doesn't this seem like a crazy position comercially for O2 to have adopted i.e. to have foregone the potential revenue that the MMS service might have generated, particularly in the current climate.

joey_bloggs · 25-03-2009 10:39am

at last. apple has seen the light
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/iphone-30-cutpaste-voice-memos-mms-search-and-app-updates/

MMS on iPhone?

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