Thread: Firmware to be released Q1 of '10. MMS to be supported.
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2010-01-02 , 15:47
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Originally Posted by JuhS View Post
What's the big deal with MMS? way back when it was first announced with big media coverage and praises. However it never got a big popularity among the mobile users.

Years have past and now there is the marvelous internet (flickr,facebook,email) Why not use these modern, technically advanced methods and stop wining about the past technologies?

I would concentrate the Maemo firmware update development focus to other areas that are more useful for the end user (Nokia Maps!)
When counting the people using MMS vs Nokia Maps, I would guess you would get a ratio of 99.9 to 1.

You are partly right. The use of SMS vs MMS is also in the ballpark 99 to 1, but the number of users of SMS vs MMS is more 1 to 1, allmost everybody use MMS, but not very often. Still it is one of those things you have to have on a phone.

MMS cannot be compared with e-mail. MMS links directly to your phone, no user names, no log ins, no nothing. There is simply nothing more practical than MMS when sending small videos and pictures, and grandparents loves it.

The N900 don't have that hyped fashion "must have" - thing, that the iPhone had, it could do without MMS for some time. Without MMS, the N900 will go down the drain, it will be rediculed.
 

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