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.
Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie’s photos on Flickr.
