never sent a mms - i think i send about 4 sms a month even tho i have unlimited
- Allen Stern
I used to do it about once a day prior to getting the iPhone. If iPhone supported it, I'd probably do it about once a day again.
- Rochelle
Mostly photos and videos. Some audio. Now that I think about it, I'm positive my current phone has MMS and not SMS. At any rate, my average with my current phone is about 15 per day.
- Anika
I think I sent one, just to test and see if it worked. With AT&T, though, you get charged extra to actually send the multimedia content that gets sent with the message (with unlimited messaging, the message itself is "free", but any photos, video, etc. sent with it uses your "data" plan), so I don't make a habit of it.
- Curdy G
Lots. Used to send them before I got a BB/iPhone more though. Then since we got MMS on the iPhone i sent them just because i could. It's not a dead feature yet though, most people I'd say still don't have internet enabled phones, but MMS is such an old feature it's on most of those handsets still.
- Simon Wicks
Thousands of times with my old phone. Have you never taken a picture with your phone and sent it to a friend? That's an MMS. Which is why I was amazed that the iPhone didn't have it. I've never wanted to send pictures via email. That makes no sense at all.
- Otto
Franz: When I want to send a picture to a friend, I want them to see it right now, possibly to respond to it. Email is not immediate.
- Otto
Franz: I do have push email. But not everybody has an iPhone. Many of the friends I want to send photos to in real time don't, nor should they have to have one. Which is why I need MMS, because it's ubiquitous on camera phones, except the bloody iPhone.
- Otto
Everyone does not have a data plan on their phone. I remember going through a lot of changes trying to send pics to my friends from my Sidekick 2.
- Rah-PM 2012
I agree with Otto one this one. The main thing that was holding me back from getting an iPhone is the lack of MMS. Most of my family do not have data plans, and I get regular MMS messages from them. But... with ATT finally setting a date to support MMS, I might just go out and get that iPhone now.
- Steven Bryden
I spent more time enabling MMS on my iPhone than actually using it so you have a point.
- sean808080
I had no idea the iPhone lacked MMS. That makes the apps from companies that don't waste their time supporting my phone make a lot more sense. <eyeroll>
- Anika
I can count on one hand. But its occasionaly useful for people you can't @reply on twitter with a twitpic or a twitvid.
- Roberto Bonini
Average about 3-4 a week. I usually send to TwitPic & Facebook at the same time too.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from iPhone
only reason i haven't sent one is my iPhone wont let me
- Shiva
This discussion illustrates why much of the tech community is working with blinders on. "Wait, people don't have data plans? No email? They can only share media via MMS? What kind of arcane backwards junk is that?" :)
- Rah-PM 2012
10? It's nice to be able to send a quick photo or video to someone.
- Rodfather
Whenever I send pix to Brighkite it then uploads to Flickr, so quite a few. I also take a lot and send them to my Evernote account.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Now that I'm back on Verizon, I've sent around 20, I'd say. That's in less than a month.
- Yolanda
I do have an unlimited data plan that I abuse mercilessly. (Yes, I tether.)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
It's not even about it being a neccesity, it's more about feeling like you are being cheated out of feature that other (dumb) phone users with no data plans can take advantage of we simply can't send it yet alone view ones that are incoming, it counters the argument that the iPhone is an advanced 21 century device.
- Tate
from iPod
not often but few times per week - but I am in Europe :)
- A. T.
on old plan fairly often, current work phone doesn't support it
- Yant
Franz: MMS is the *correct* way to share a picture immediately. It's the standard. Co-opting email into some kind of real-time nonsense is a stupid mistake on Apple's part. Email is not real-time. Email is not supposed to be real-time.
- Otto
In the last 5 years I would say I've sent 3. Usually at the request of the recipient rather than me wanting to send one.
- Lee Stone
Never. I think it's a pointless and a bad way to send a message. Also, you can send an email whose data is built into your plan or pay 1,000/MB rate by sending an MMS message.
- Mike Bracco
The obvious reason to use MMS is to send a picture to someone who doesn't have a data connection on their phone and doesn't check their email constantly. I know lots of people like this so it makes sense to send them a picture by MMS.
- Martin Bryant