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The iPhone’s lack of integrated support for multimedia messaging (MMS) is quite the pain. Fortunately, using the iPhone’s built-in support for email you can work around this lack of functionality. With a little preparation on both you and your friends’ parts, you can send and receive picture messages without too much trouble.

The not-so-secret secret here is that most wireless providers assign their subscribers an email address based on their phone number. If you send an email to that address, it’ll get delivered as a text message—if you attach a photo to that message—say, using the iPhone’s built-in photo emailing—it’ll get delivered as a picture message. The trick is just knowing the address of the contact you want to send the message to. I have taken the liberty to compile a list of the most common providers.

Alltel = xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com

AT&T = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net

Boost Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com

Cingular (AT&T) = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.mycingular.com

Einstein PCS = xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com

Sprint = xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com

T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net

US Cellular = xxxxxxxxxx@mms.uscc.net

Verizon Wireless = xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com

Virgin Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com

And to make it even easier, you can just enter this address as an additional email in your contact’s address record.

For receiving messages, the same principle works in reverse. Your iPhone, after all, has a robust email client built-in. And just like the wireless provider has email addresses for every phone, most phones can send text and picture messages to email addresses. So instead of having your friend send that snapshot to your phone, have them send it to any email account that you have set up on your iPhone.

It’s hardly an ideal solution, and I’d hope that Apple adds in real MMS support soon. I dont have a 3GS and maybe it is in there, nut if not then this may hold you over for now.

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   DteK said...
   6:37 pm - November 12th, 2009

   Yep, that did the trick. THanks

2. CARLTON said...
   2:48 pm - July 21st, 2010

   
   

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