Multimedia Message Service (MMS) is the mobile industry's successor to SMS. MMS goes beyond texting to support pictures and graphics, voice messages and video clips sent as messages. Unfortunately MMS was a technology design not a service design. It can support a variety of services but the specific services are not standardized and thus not widely adopted.
Of course the much simpler Short Message Service (SMS) also took a while to be adopted, but MMS services are more diverse and they have a shorter window of opportunity. Now there are signs that window is about to close.
A few weeks ago MobileIN asked me for an article on this subject which I wrote last Friday while flying back from AstriCon. My article has been published so click through for the details.
Hi Brough, I fully agree. MMS interoperability has been poor and damaged a service where nobody could trust that the other person would receive the MMS properly (or at all). With unlimited data plans, who cares about MMS when you can send emails. Many complain the iPhone does not support MMS. We can understand why.
http://tech-talk.biz/2008/10/02/iphone-rocks-or-a-rock/
Posted by: Jose Miguel Cansado | October 02, 2008 at 12:01 PM
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Posted by: deepak | October 03, 2008 at 03:19 AM