Depending on the telco the phone is on it should either:
Arrive as an SMS with a link to a site where you can view it.
or
Do nothing.

While I have not tested this I am quite certain of it as there is a wappushd running that handles incoming WAP Pushes (the notifications about MMS is sent by this means). To actually view (or do whatever with) the notifications you would have to register with this daemon via the DBUS API and process it.

I'm starting to doubt the kind of testing has been done.

Because in most cases information for each service providers MMS server is programmed by the manufacturer in the code plug at a lower level.

EG:



If a SIM from a different service provider is put in the phone I used in the above example, MMS for the new provider will not work because the phone would be contacting the other service providers MMS server.

As I posted before, it always looked to me as another way carriers locked customers to their service or more correctly; it was just another stream that they managed in order to increase their average revenue per subscriber. This month free Nights and Week-ends, next month 10 extra MMS and call anyone in Oklahoma free, yadda, yadda, yadda.

In any event, I am hoping Nokia's efforts with Maemo is to produce a class of world phones that aren't network carrier dependent and do not chain their owners to the schemes cooked up by the cell phone service providers.

MMS as well as WAP, imho are standards that are used as a stopgap until handset screen resolution, processing power, and network bandwidth caught up.

I'm thinkin' with the N900 on 3G, they caught up.

And BTW (not you gerbs), @ whoever said that the same people on this forum saying MMS doesn't matter were the ones shouting the loudest about the iPhone not having MMS back in the day.
Really?
A year and a half or so ago a phone was the last thing we talked about on this forum. Maemo didn't have a phone then and the only interest in the iPhone was over how we could snatch some of the iPhone specific sites and use them on our non-phone tablets. >> http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/news/8/
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MMS serves a purpose but if implementing it involves input from the service providers you can count me out.

My bad, I did actually test this with 2 or 3 people, but none received anything at all.

Sorry for forgetting it, I blame hours of programming with Java RMI ;-)

It differs per provider

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multime...al_Description

Yeah. Looking at the meat prices, I'll probably have to swap my T. Rex for some vegetarian model. Let's just hope that the hay market doesn't go crazy if more people switch.

In fact, peter once wrote that quim (born 1970) would be "the upper boundary of the target group", while jussi (any of you guys kno his age?) would be the lower. he said he wouldn't consider me (42) "too old for the N900", but as I'm three years older than their "upper boundary", I'm not sure if he only wanted to be polite.

And most of the install base of phones on the planet has the function and not better options.

It seems to make sense to have the support so you can send or receive pics from people that have nothing else. If someone could care less, good for them, since no harm no foul.

YoDude,

I had this exact problem with my Dash and took longer than it needed to correct with tech support.


Benny,

For such an expensive device, they sure are cutting off one of the strongest segments for disposable income (me being one of them too).

Sounds like a marketing talk point from a PowerPoint presentation.

Welcome to the forums!

IMO the N900 guzzles the internet like a hummer guzzles gas! Not the phone you want if you are counting your kb's, the N900 is for all you can eat plans and locations where wide-ranging internet access is common and your friends have similar plans. Hence, this data guzzler is not for emerging markets and such.

Clear AND concise