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Will AT&T Charge Extra For MMS & Tethering?
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Bill Snyder questions whether AT&T's jockeying on tethering and MMS may signal coming iPhone pricing surcharges. After all, as Apple's exclusive US partner, Ma Bell should have plenty of insight into upcoming iPhone features and revenue opportunities. Yet AT&T was very conspicuous in its absence from the list of providers who will support tethering and MMS at Tuesday's launch of the new iPhone at WWDC, and by Wednesday, it was backpedaling furiously, saying it will offer both services — later in the year. Certainly, the exclusive arrangement between the companies is proving to be an ugly roadblock to Apple's iPhone vision. But Snyder thinks it may go deeper than that: 'My best guess is that we'll see horrendous pricing surcharges for tethering and MMS, on top of the already expensive data and voice charges iPhone users pay. I don't think AT&T execs wanted to stand up at WWDC and announce that.'"
What, AT&T doesn't support MMS? Wow, the US truly have fallen behind!
No, it's just the iPhone that has fallen behind.
The Palm Pre supported MMS from day 1.
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The fact that iPhone can't do MMS is pretty sad.
Well, it was, anyways, and it didn't seem to hurt the iPhone much in the market. The fact that people pay $10/mo to send 640x480 pictures to each other's 1" screens is an altogether different kind of sad, IMHO.
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Isn't this how US works? Two parties for everything. Give more options and Joe's head starts to hurt.
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And to think the iPhone is supposedly "user friendly".
Let me tell you how MMS works on my Pre:
And to think if I had an iPhone, I could start reading up on MMS to email gateways. ;)
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It's just awful when someone sends you an MMS and you have one of those phones too. The message comes in and it just says "go to this extremely long URL". You try to pull it up in your mobile browser, but the website is about 8MB and has another 4MB of javascript on it plus flash and it doesn't work at all. So you go home and use a real browser only to discover that the site is so slow that it times itself out 5 or 6 times before finally delivering you the tiny blurry photo.
And they tell me the iPhone provides a good user experience. Thanks, but no thanks. ;)
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Mmmm, yeah, I can't wait for a N97 North American release. Looks to me to beat the crap out of the iPhone.
I can't watch your video at the office, but everything I've read has said that between the iPhone 3GS and the N97, each has advantages and disadvantages with no clear winner.
I suppose it just depends on which features are more important to you which phone you'll like better. Both devices look pretty sweet to me.
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So in addition to Palm and Apple competing, their fan boys will be competing too? Can't we all just get along?
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So in addition to Palm and Apple competing, their fan boys will be competing too? Can't we all just get along?
What can I say? It's the natural progression of things.
At this point, I'm only responding to replies. If you want me to shut up, get away from the reply button. ;)
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You're an idiot. Majority of people of whom dog on Apple are those who haven't actually sat down to use a Mac. You see something different and freak out on it. You DO realize that the Mac OS was the first consumer GUI driven OS on the market released back in 1984, right? That Bill Gates himself said it's one of the best user experiences around. Computers are too pricey? One of my old computers is a 6 year old Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.5.7(the latest update) with NO ISSUES and very little lag. Lets see a 6 year old PC run Vista. Not gonna happen. With the UNIX kernal that OS X is based off of(like Linux) it takes very little resources to run the OS. So that brand new $1699 Macbook Pro that someone has purchased, can last YEARS more than a PC. Especially with the new battery that has a life span of over 1000 cycle counts.