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#540
Originally Posted by Peter@Maemo Marketing View Post
Yes, having MMS on a feature phone is important, but the N900 isn't a feature phone with limited resources. . We prioritized our resources to have brilliant multitasking of the frequent use cases. You can share photos easily to the Internet or by email. Implementing MMS would have meant dragging the ancient WAP 1.2.1 standard used for the push notificatiom to a modern computer OS in times when our target audience wants to share high quality images to Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Ovi and so on. MMS receipt would maybe gotten us far enough, so others can send her photo to you, but we decided to put our R&D into other areas. I hope consumers will forgive us for the time being.
This, for me, is a major setback. Even if I see your point, with operators (at least in Portugal and Spain) giving away packages of 1500 SMS and 500 MMS for free on a weekly basis I think many users will think twice before changing to the N900.

I do mail my pictures, upload them to Flickr, Twitter, etc. but when I want to take a quick shot and share it with someone I use MMS: Its free, doesn't add to my data plan and it works.