Image Source: ehow.com As a guy who rarely uses text messaging at all, and had never once used MMS before this weekend, I am about as filled with excitement about MMS on the iPhone as the dude in the picture above.  But I realize it ‘s a huge deal for lots of iPhone users “ […]
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So … How is MMS on the iPhone Treating You?

Sep 28th 2009 by

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Image Source: ehow.com

As a guy who rarely uses text messaging at all, and had never once used MMS before this weekend, I am about as filled with excitement about MMS on the iPhone as the dude in the picture above.  But I realize it ‘s a huge deal for lots of iPhone users “ and I am very interested to see how the AT&T network copes now that it has finally been turned on.

So I tried it out briefly yesterday with a work colleague, and three out of four messages containing pics worked first time.  I received one successfully, sent two successfully, and had one send failure.  We were buzzing up I-35 at the time though, so 3G signal strength was a little variable.

Speaking of 3G coverage, I was on 3G a lot on my iPhone over the last few days because WiFi was stupid at the place we were staying while out of town (as in, it was always there, but it forgot your login details and forced a new login roughly every 10 minutes).  I found 3G to be mostly solid and good during Friday (the day MMS on iPhone launched), Saturday, Sunday “ but for most of that time I was in a fairly small city.

iPhone MMS Test

So that ‘s been the extent of my experience with iPhone MMS and 3G coverage thus far since launch day.

How about you all?  How are you finding MMS so far?  Is it working well / not so well / terribly badly?  And 3G coverage?  Holding up well, or falling all over the place?

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