UK iPhone Users Get MMS – at a Price
10:23 pm, January 11th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
A working 3rd party application enabling MMS on the iPhone is now available as a free download on the UK AppStore, according to one report. Ross McKillop and Ed Lea appear to have addressed the lack of MMS in the UK with an app that remedies one of the most widely decried shortcomings of the iPhone outside the lack of copy & paste functionality.
The pair’s app makes it free to receive MMS messages and its UI fits perfectly to Apple’s iPhone interface, according to the report. It works by prompting for a user’s O2 Mobile Number and the PIN that O2 sends when a subscriber receives an MMS message. The application then retrieves the MMS messages from O2.
The catch is that sending an MMS will cost you coin of the realm. The current charge is 10 messages for £3.79 which works out to nearly 72¢ per message.
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Ross McKillop, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
The catch? SInce when is sending MMS free – anywhere? MMS is a totally overpriced “SMS with pictures” service. It’s only needed if the recipient doesn’t have a phone with a mail account. Otherwise it is always cheaper to send pictures as mail. Regardless of what make of phone you have.
Peter, on January 13th, 2009 at 2:24 am