Thread: PCWorld Article: Nokia N900: Hot and Not
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ohwut is offline ohwut
2009-11-12 , 05:33
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#30
Originally Posted by Venomrush View Post
I think we should be moving forward and away from MMS.

Reasons:

1. N900 has 5meg camera
2. MMS limits 350kb per message
3. N900 requires software to compress image down to MMS size
4. Waste of resource to develop this functionality when the N900 can take advantage of the 3G & HSPDA network to upload high quality photos, link can be sent through message or social networking sites.
5. In order to see the MMS, the other person would need an MMS compatible phone
6. Not a lot of demand for MMS nowdays to be honest, users take the photos with the camera on their phone (N900) they prefer to go home and upload it on the net (Facebook, twitter etc) rather than sending an MMS to a dozen of contacts.
Sure moving away from MMS is fine, as soon as 90% of phones can receive eMail it's great. The issues is some people don't use Social networking either, I'm a well paid pro photographer and I only have 1 picture on my Facebook(which wasn't taken with a phone). The smartphone market share is still below 40% penetration, there's still a large majority of people who can't send/receive email from a phone, but the money is on them being able to get a MMS, and if they can't then whatever they can view it online later.

The idea isn't that it's useless, it's that it should be a standard feature, I remember buying my new BMW, it didn't have an oil Dipstick, in the modern age you don't need one because it has an electronic one, but it's still nice to have one under the hood just in case.