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Originally Posted by twaelti View Post
Maemo 5 and the N900 look brilliant. But: don't forget the past and present! There are still many many many mobile phone users who are NOT into "online web 2.0", but who are simply very happy if you send them an MMS, because it is a very simply use case, has reasonable pricing and they will not need any kind of special data plan. In fact, for anybody I know without an iPhone, MMS is the one and only way to share a picture from his/her mobile phone. This includes coworkers, friends, parents and wife.

The N900 MUST include MMS. Especially when Nokia shoots at the iPhone in their marketing materials (like copy/paste, no jailbreaking needed, battery changeable). This would be just too inconsistent.
According to someone in the know, the main reason why MMS isn't in there is because of the way MMS works conflicts with the way the Linux kernel works in terms of handling connections. I was told however that a very recent addition to the official kernel would make it possible to add in the future.
 

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