Thread: Now it's official: Maemo 5 and the N900 launch!
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mcdull is offline mcdull
2009-08-31 , 12:24
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Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
I don't actually have any links for you, unfortunately. This was gleaned from talking to a Maemo developer very familiar with the Linux kernel who explained it to me. MMS is nowhere near as simple as people think... it's like a separate connection which needs to cut off the current one to work... at least in the kernel in the N900 now from what I understand. Upstream has apparently committed stuff that should allow it to work now.

So it's not a matter of something that was forgotten, but something that just couldn't be implemented at the time.
But it has been in even the simplest feature phones for years.
To many users, it's the "simple" thing that people are expecting and I was supursed the develpers simply ignored that demand but put in features that will be far less used than MMS.

It's still the easiest and cheapest way to share pictures and videos with other people. It requires no plan or just a message plan without the hassle of an expensive data plan.
 

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