MMS issues

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Just use Handcent for your MMS, it'll resize pictures for you. As far as video, the iphone commercials are very misleading with how much can be sent.

 

[Channan]

are you using the GMAIL app? Or using the mobile site?

Gmail app. How do you send files with the mobile site? I'm using Astro to find the file I want to send and the only options it gives me to send videos is Gmail app, Bluetooth, and Messaging. Obviously Messaging doesn't work, but neither does Gmail.

 

[Channan]

Just use Handcent for your MMS, it'll resize pictures for you. As far as video, the iphone commercials are very misleading with how much can be sent.

I have an iPhone. I know video MMS quality is sh?tty, but I can at least send large files through email over 3G and WiFi.

 

[GenericMessage]

Gmail app. How do you send files with the mobile site? I'm using Astro to find the file I want to send and the only options it gives me to send videos is Gmail app, Bluetooth, and Messaging. Obviously Messaging doesn't work, but neither does Gmail.

gmail.com from your browser

 

[Channan]

I couldn't figure out how to attach files in the browser.

But don't worry. I figured out the problem. It wasn't Gmail. It was Astro. It wouldn't let me attach large files to my emails. So I checked out other file managers and downloaded EStrongs File Explorer and I can send large attachments now! The UI is nicer, too.

 

[kobbone]

I had been thinking about the Iphone lately. I just am kinda sick of waiting for Sprint to release phones (I know they are coming). I have an Ipod touch and really like how it works. I have the Hero now for a phone and like it also. Anyways just got off the phone with AT&T to inquire about getting three Iphones for a family plan to have the same I do with Sprint. IT would cost $100 more a month to have the same plan on AT&T as I have on Sprint right now. That is crazy. I will stick with Sprint and ANDROID.

Sprint offers lower plans to attract customers to there company. Being in the wireless indusrty (at AT&T) I notice in my area (Milwaukee WI. area) we have at least 60 lines a month switch from Sprint. From what I've seen of phone line up and what is rumored to be comming out, nothing sticks out. The technology (CDMA) was phased out buy AT&T almsot 10 years ago. You can choose to pay less for and get the non cutting edge devices -OR- switch to a global provider that will carry top of the line devices and services. don't get me wrong I switched away from the iphone becasue its nothing more than a fad. I had the 16 gig 3gs and my nexus one distroys it in every imaginible way. The money your going to pay for AT&T your going to faster and more relyible service bar none! ANDORID is THE ISH!!! Android will over take iPhone and Blackberry within the next 5 years. Even the up comming iPhone 4.0 is as fast as the nexus one is now but after the new software update comming 5.22.10 the nexus will still take iphone.

 

[Bodar]

Sprint offers lower plans to attract customers to there company. Being in the wireless indusrty (at AT&T) I notice in my area (Milwaukee WI. area) we have at least 60 lines a month switch from Sprint. From what I've seen of phone line up and what is rumored to be comming out, nothing sticks out.

I know you're from WI, but do you also live under a rock? That statement is just nonsense. Evo 4G not ringing any bells? Android Central has been heavily covering it. You're right that Sprint's lineup has sucked for quite some time (and that is a large part in why people were jumping ship), but next month could be a whole different ball game, so long as people look past the iPhone 4th Gen marketing.

 

[88 FLUX]

I know you're from WI, but do you also live under a rock? That statement is just nonsense. Evo 4G not ringing any bells? Android Central has been heavily covering it. You're right that Sprint's lineup has sucked for quite some time (and that is a large part in why people were jumping ship), but next month could be a whole different ball game, so long as people look past the iPhone 4th Gen marketing.

I'm sorry but maybe it's you that is living under a rock. Why are so many tech-loving people oblivious to the fact that the majority of consumers are average users who don't care about things such as "4G" or "Mobile Hotspot" or, and I hate to even point it out, "Android". You make it sound like one phone is going to save Sprint from the hole it's been dug in. It takes a lot more than that. You say "as long as people look past the iPhone 4th Gen marketing" but seem to not realize that the reason why it is so successful is because Apple has successfully marketed it to the average consumer also knowing that techies would love it as well. That is something that the Android OS hasn't successfully done yet, or at least not to the extent that Apple has. I'll take my Nexus One any day over the iPhone, so don't try calling me a naive Apple fan boy. But you, and many others, need to get out of this "the whole world is just as tech crazy as I am" mentality.

 

[Bodar]

I'm sorry but maybe it's you that is living under a rock. Why are so many tech-loving people oblivious to the fact that the majority of consumers are average users who don't care about things such as "4G" or "Mobile Hotspot" or, and I hate to even point it out, "Android". You make it sound like one phone is going to save Sprint from the hole it's been dug in. It takes a lot more than that. You say "as long as people look past the iPhone 4th Gen marketing" but seem to not realize that the reason why it is so successful is because Apple has successfully marketed it to the average consumer also knowing that techies would love it as well. That is something that the Android OS hasn't successfully done yet, or at least not to the extent that Apple has. I'll take my Nexus One any day over the iPhone, so don't try calling me a naive Apple fan boy. But you, and many others, need to get out of this "the whole world is just as tech crazy as I am" mentality.

I was calling out his statement that Sprint has no notable phones at all. The Evo definitely has a shot to appeal to the average joe customer -- it's very fast, with a gorgeous screen, for starters. You don't need to understand specs to know that fast and pretty are good.

I like the iPhone actually, and it obviously made smartphones "accessible". I dislike AT&T and I dislike Apple's walled garden even more, but I hold no illusions that most people find more pros than cons with the iPhone. I do however see the Evo as another chink in Apple's armor: really good hardware with fun features, that gets people away from the notion that "consumer smartphone = iPhone" in the way that many think "MP3 player = iPod." So long as Android keeps improving the user experience with each revision and keeps devs interested in the platform, they have a shot at taking some wind out of Apple's sails.

No single phone is going to dramatically change the smartphone landscape like the iPhone did -- that much is obvious -- but the first step is showing people that the iPhone is leagues above the competition. When you a good mobile OS (Android 2.1) with great hardware, Apple's marketing doesn't hold as much weight to the objective customer.

Will the Evo save Sprint? I don't know, but it's as good a start as they could hope for at this point.

 

[Jeremy]

Guys, please stay on topic and don't start throwing insults around toward one another. Thanks.