Attaching photo to text message sms

No you cant send MMS.

MMS is not supported with the iPhone, but you can accomplish the same via email.

Have the person that you want to exchange MMS with send you an MMS addressed to the email address for an email account that you access with the iPhone's Mail client. The MMS will be received as an email with a photo attached to the message.

This will give you the sender's cell phone email address.

Attach a photo to an email and enter this email address in the To: field when addressing the message. The message will be received as an MMS. You can add this email address as an available email address for the contact's information in the address book.

any news at all if theyre gonna add mms functionality in the next firmware update?

No one here knows, and unless Apple releases any information about this (if they are planning on it), which they haven't, we won't know until they do so, or they include it with an update announcing it when the update is released.

bah June is so far away!! (my birthdays in june too!)

I cannot express it enough...

GET MMS for the iPhone!

I absolutely hate looking up pictures via viewmymessage.com ... the site runs extremely slow and the image is shrunk so small from the original you can barely make anything out. And the ever-changing login ID is chaotic at best. Why not just use your phone number as the ID? Having to try to view your image using your iPhone versus a computer is even worse, especially since you can't copy paste. So you go back and forth back and forth trying to enter in the right ID and password so you can view an image that should of just been there via MMS.

My network of friends often send between 2-10 pictures and videos a day via their phones! Too bad I can't play like they do. Oh well, only person I can blame is me for getting an iPhone. Such lovely technology with such simple limitations!

On the upside... I'm really hoping that SDK will allow us to send pictures via text messaging. I've heard that it may not happen, but I've also heard that it might!

In the meantime I like to send complaints to here as much as possible:


http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Here, try this information for the email workaround.

Use these addresses for US Based Carriers. ( the xxxx's is the 10 digit phone number)

Alltel = xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com
Amp'd Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vtext.com
AT&T = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net
Boost Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com
Cingular (AT&T) = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.mycingular.com
Einstein PCS = xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com
Nextel = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com or xxxxxxxxxx@pm.sprint.com
T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net
US Cellular = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com

YES!

Indeed the IPhone NEEDS MMS ASAP!

I work at a Crummy job but I get paid great money. I travel all the time and I'm only home for 3-5 days out of the month. My wife use to send me 3-6 pics a day of herself and my son. That would help me get through some stressful times at work. I was a skeptic of the iphone and kinda bashed it in a way but when the SDK was released, I said "Screw It" and got it. The SDK is a breakthrough in the Cell phone market. But it looks like apple is look up and over the competition rather than looking at the competition head on. Even the Free phones that come with sighing up with service has MMS. I'm going to wait till June to see what Apple has up their sleeves. But If i don't see any MMS by that time I'm going to have to go back to my Blackjack 2.

I know we could email, but my wife is never by a computer nor does my wife want to swap to a smart phone. When an MMS message is sent I dont get anything not even a text that tells me to check viewmymessages.com or anything.

So please apple put MMS in ASAP. You've received many many feed back requests from me and others about MMS.

wavescapes,

Email is so much more than MMS, and can communicate with MMS.

The MMS protocol includes sending and receiving with email addresses, it is part of the MMS protocol. If a given carrier won't do so, then that is the carriers decision at some point.

Typically the email address is phonenumber@carriersdomain. Several examples appear in this thread.

If you don't know what address to use for your friends, have them email you first. Add the "From" address to your contacts, and use that to send them pictures. Other users in these forums have set up email addresses for their friends to send MMS to with such things as phonenumber@freeemailprovider. Yahoo, AOL, and GMail all offer free email that can be accessed on the iPhone.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

It's just more steps in the equation than it's worth. I prefer to get a text and just stay in text mode. I very well know how to setup email for sending and receiving pictures, but it really is a hassle. There's no "getting used to it" like you might with other features. Edge is slow and using a web browser just to look at pictures is all but satisfying. And that whole viewmymessages.com ordeal. That's such a nightmare! Copy paste might make it a tad easier, but still...

It's sad because companies really are on the bandwagon of just creating products without implementing "usability testing" from real-world users. I see it in everyday products. One can only ask... "Did they test this before they produced it?" Sometimes you have to wonder. People just shrug it off as being standard and therefore accept it and smile like everything perfect. Well if people would voice structured honest and helpful opinions, then perhaps companies would change their products to suite those needs. It actually does happen, but just not as often as one might think, hope or expect.

I've been a loyal Apple product user since the mid 80's. I still am. I just think with all the fuss and muss Apple should just take notice and implement simple user requests. It's not like they don't have the money or developers, and lack of MMS is one of the largest complaints I hear and read about from iPhone users... so why not just make it so?!