How to send MMS Messages on the iPhone
What is your number-one most used electronic device. For most people, it could be their MP3 player, their cellphone, or their PDA. But for owners of the Apple iPhone, there is only one likely answer: it's their iPhone. After all, with Internet access, a music player, cell phone, all in one device with a simple, interactive design, there is little need to use any other personal electronics device. But despite the Internet and email capabilities...despite its ability to double as an iPod, there's no denying that the iPhone is still a cell phone—and you want it to be able to handle phone calls and text messages. In fact, one reason so many people have bought the iPhone is because of Apple's promise that it would make text messaging simple, convenient and intuitive. If you spend one day with the iPhone, you will see that Apple has delivered on that promise.
Still, the iPhone lacks in one area. Many people have become addicted to communicating through MMS, or multimedia messages. And these people don't feel that the iPhone does as well with this as it does with text messages. The reason for this is that, despite all of its features, the iPhone still lacks video and picture messaging. There was a huge vocal outcry when the iPhone first debuted as MMS fans discovered this shortcoming, because so many of them rely on MMS to keep their contacts updated on their current activities.
Oh to be sure, the following for the iPhone is still huge, and lack of MMS was not enough to dampen most people's enthusiasm for the device. But despite how amazing this piece of equipment is, many people remain turned off by its deficiency in this area. A whole lot of people want to be able to send MMS text and video messages.
There is some good news, however. Believe it or not, there is a workaround that will allow you to send pictures to your friends and simulate MMS functionality, without the means of text messaging. This workaround takes advantage of the fact that most cell phones created in recent years have some email capbilities. Using this fact, you can now send MMS messages to all of your friends' cell phones.
This is not a difficult task, nor will it take much time. All you do is to “email” the photo to your contact. The good news is that the person you're emailing to does not even have to have email support to receive the message. Allyou do is find the photo you want to send via the iPhone, and tap the “send phooto” link. The contact's s phone number along with their carrier's e-mail prefix. (For example it would be @tmomail.net for a T-mobile telephone number.) The only drawback is that this workaround requires that you know your contact's cellphone provider. If you do know it, you have an easy way to send a MMS message just as you would with any other device with full MMS capabilities.
For your future reference, here are the email prefixes for the major cell phone providers: Verizon, vzpix.com; AT&T/Cingular, mms.att.com; T-Mobile, tmomail.net; Sprint/Nextel, messaging.sprintpcs.com; Virgin Mobile, vmobl.net; Amp'd Mobile, vzwpix.com; Alltel, message.alltel.com