iPhone - How do you send picture messages ?

DanPuma08 · DanPuma08 #1 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 12:30 PM

How do you send picture messages by text ?

lifeisabeach · lifeisabeach #2 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 01:14 PM

At the moment, you'd need a 3rd-party app to get this "MMS" feature on the iPhone. This would involve some hacking.... not for the faint-of-heart. However, rumor has it that Apple has an upcoming update for the iPhone that will provide MMS messaging.

DanPuma08 · DanPuma08 #3 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 01:17 PM

sounds good thanks

dakineyj · dakineyj #4 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 02:39 PM

MMS Workaround

mac57 · mac57 #5 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 02:39 PM

Actually guys, some good news on this front. You CAN do it now. It is just not obvious. The following general "recipe" is from the book "iPhone The Missing Manual".

To send an email with a photo attached to another cellphone (essentially, send an MMS), you simply need to know the "magic address" to send to for the network that cellphone is on. Here is the small list that was in the book. It assumes that the cellphone you wanted to send to is (123) 456-7890 (substitute your intended destination wherever you see this number in the list below). For each case, this list shows the wireless carrier your intended party uses, and then the address to send your email to for that carrier:

Alltel: 1234567890@message.alltel.com
AT&T: 1234567890@mms.att.net
Sprint: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: 1234567890@tmomail.net
US Cellular: 1234567890@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless: 1234567890@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile: 1234567890@vmobl.com

To make use of these simple, the book recommends that you simply setup the correct version of the above as a secondary email address in your address book for the person in question. Then it is easy to select it from your contacts list on your iPhone.

Just address your email to any one of the above and you should be "good to go". BTW, I haven't tested this, so I cannot vouch for it.

thejumpingflea · thejumpingflea #6 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mac57

Actually guys, some good news on this front. You CAN do it now. It is just not obvious. The following general "recipe" is from the book "iPhone The Missing Manual".

To send an email with a photo attached to another cellphone (essentially, send an MMS), you simply need to know the "magic address" to send to for the network that cellphone is on. Here is the small list that was in the book. It assumes that the cellphone you wanted to send to is (123) 456-7890 (substitute your intended destination wherever you see this number in the list below). For each case, this list shows the wireless carrier your intended party uses, and then the address to send your email to for that carrier:

Alltel: 1234567890@message.alltel.com
AT&T: 1234567890@mms.att.net
Sprint: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: 1234567890@tmomail.net
US Cellular: 1234567890@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless: 1234567890@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile: 1234567890@vmobl.com

To make use of these simple, the book recommends that you simply setup the correct version of the above as a secondary email address in your address book for the person in question. Then it is easy to select it from your contacts list on your iPhone.

Just address your email to any one of the above and you should be "good to go". BTW, I haven't tested this, so I cannot vouch for it.

The other cool thing is that this is free texting.

NPuter · NPuter #7 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 08:28 PM

can anyone confirm that this works??

lifeisabeach · lifeisabeach #8 (**permalink**)

12-23-2007, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NPuter

can anyone confirm that this works??

Confirmed. I just tried it with my wife.... her LG phone supports MMS and it received my text and picture sent by this email workaround just fine.

Now obviously it won't work if the recipient has an iPhone since it doesn't support MMS, although I instead got a website with username/password to retrieve a picture that my wife tried to send to me by MMS to my iPhone.

thejumpingflea · thejumpingflea #9 (**permalink**)

12-24-2007, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lifeisabeach

Confirmed. I just tried it with my wife.... her LG phone supports MMS and it received my text and picture sent by this email workaround just fine.

Now obviously it won't work if the recipient has an iPhone since it doesn't support MMS, although I instead got a website with username/password to retrieve a picture that my wife tried to send to me by MMS to my iPhone.

That is when you have the sender send their picture text to your email account that is synced to your iphone.

55ovalcharlie · 55ovalcharlie #10 (**permalink**)

12-25-2007, 07:54 AM

does anybody know if there is one of these email addresses available for the O2 iPhone network in the UK?????

thanks

lifeisabeach · lifeisabeach #11 (**permalink**)

12-25-2007, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 55ovalcharlie

does anybody know if there is one of these email addresses available for the O2 iPhone network in the UK?????

thanks

Here's what purports to be a complete list:
http://mike.chicagobairds.com/wp-con.../providers.txt
For O2:
O2 name@o2.co.uk
O2 (M-mail) number@mmail.co.uk

There's also a way to register free with O2 to get email by SMS:
http://www.mobileshop.org/usertech/sms.htm

giulio · giulio #12 (**permalink**)

12-26-2007, 08:43 AM

An alternate verizon address is 2345678900@vtext.com :: no '1' in front. Just use the 10 characters.

mac57 #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 29, 2006 Location: St. Somewhere Posts: 4,547 Mac Specs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, 120 GB SSD, 500 GB HDD	12-23-2007, 02:39 PM Actually guys, some good news on this front. You CAN do it now. It is just not obvious. The following general "recipe" is from the book "iPhone The Missing Manual". To send an email with a photo attached to another cellphone (essentially, send an MMS), you simply need to know the "magic address" to send to for the network that cellphone is on. Here is the small list that was in the book. It assumes that the cellphone you wanted to send to is (123) 456-7890 (substitute your intended destination wherever you see this number in the list below). For each case, this list shows the wireless carrier your intended party uses, and then the address to send your email to for that carrier: Alltel: 1234567890@message.alltel.com AT&T: 1234567890@mms.att.net Sprint: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com T-Mobile: 1234567890@tmomail.net US Cellular: 1234567890@mms.uscc.net Verizon Wireless: 1234567890@vzwpix.com Virgin Mobile: 1234567890@vmobl.com To make use of these simple, the book recommends that you simply setup the correct version of the above as a secondary email address in your address book for the person in question. Then it is easy to select it from your contacts list on your iPhone. Just address your email to any one of the above and you should be "good to go". BTW, I haven't tested this, so I cannot vouch for it. My Macs: PowerMac G5 Quad, 2.5 GHz, 4 Core, Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz 8 Core, Power Macintosh 7500/100 My iStuff: 32 GB iPhone 4, 30 GB iPod Video, 16 GB iPod Touch My OS': Mac OS X Tiger, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS 8.6, openSUSE 10.3, Win XP I was on the Mac-Forums honor roll for September 2007
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NPuter #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Jul 15, 2007 Location: Miami, Fl Posts: 989 Mac Specs: 15" 2.2GHz Santa Rosa Macbook Pro - 4GB Ram - 120GB HD OS X Leopard - Windows XP	12-23-2007, 08:28 PM can anyone confirm that this works?? "The forums are not only a place to have questions answered, they are a place to be part of a community..."
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giulio #12 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 19, 2007 Location: NY USA Posts: 1,813 Mac Specs: iMac 5.1 \| iMac 7.1 \| iPod Touch \| iPod Nano	12-26-2007, 08:43 AM An alternate verizon address is 2345678900@vtext.com :: no '1' in front. Just use the 10 characters. Freelance Web Development schweb This has to be one of the best threads ever in MF history... Cherokee This gets my vote for most innovative thread on Mac-Forums... ever.
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DanPuma08 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Sep 23, 2007 Location: UK Posts: 23	12-23-2007, 12:30 PM How do you send picture messages by text ?
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Member Since: Sep 30, 2007 Location: Wilmington, NC Posts: 5,787 Mac Specs: iMac i3 (mid-2010) + OS 10.8; TV 2; iPhone 4S; iPad 1	12-23-2007, 01:14 PM At the moment, you'd need a 3rd-party app to get this "MMS" feature on the iPhone. This would involve some hacking.... not for the faint-of-heart. However, rumor has it that Apple has an upcoming update for the iPhone that will provide MMS messaging.
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Member Since: Oct 19, 2007 Posts: 13	12-25-2007, 07:54 AM does anybody know if there is one of these email addresses available for the O2 iPhone network in the UK????? thanks
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