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When will multimedia messages (aka Picture Texting) be available?
When Apple decides to include it, or allow an app that will do that (as they are reportedly doing for Sweden).
You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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GioDesa wrote:
When will multimedia messages (aka Picture Texting) be available?NEVER.

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FYI - the abbreviation for multimedia SMS messaging is MMS - you could have saved quite a few keystrokes.
An option is to ask the person with a cheesy phone who you want to exchange MMS with to address an MMS to an email address for an email account that you access with the iPhones mail client. The sender with a cheesy phone will enter the email address in the To: field when addressing the MMS instead of your cell phone number with area code.
The MMS will be received by you as an email with the photo as an attachment.
This will give you the senders cell phone MMS email address for their cheesy phone.
Add this email address to the contacts info in your iPhones address book.
Select a photo as an email attachment and if you send the message to this email address for the person with a cheesy phone, the email with the photo attached will be received as an MMS.
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and yet again you miss the point...in the UK we CANNOT do as you do with sending pics thru email...and apple will be adding MMS so get used to it...
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am i having deja vu all over again? i swear i just read a thread EXACTLY like this yesterday, the day before, the day before that and the day before that
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2.2 is fine. Run the update. With any update, there are a few users who have problems, usually due to other issues with their phone/system. Keep in mind that this place is like the emergency room for Apple products.
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Are you joking?
With every single release this same question is asked. If you are going to wait for a release in which no one gets on this forum and complains, then just accept that you will never update your iphone.
Of course you should get the latest software available for your iphone. Ive had no issue and so far, no one I now has either.
If you are worried, simply never update.
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The update is probably taking a long time due to a very high number of users around the world downloading the update at the present time.
When 2.3 is released, it will likely be the very same in this regard.
As with every major firmware, OS, or software update for any product - with a portable device like the iPhone or with a computer, there will be a percentage of users that experience a problem. This is a fact of computing life and will probably never change.
I installed the update early this morning without any issues with the download, installation, or since the installation. 2.2 is primarily a bug fix update which was sorely needed in some areas.
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You can call customer service and argue your case, but Steve Jobs isnt here. I am assuming you did not purchase AppleCare?
If it were me, given that you live in an area with 3G coverage, Id upgrade for $199/299 and pay the extra for 3G speeds.
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Try talking to Apple about it, instead of us - fellow iphone users.
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You need a working phone, in its current state it will not do anything.
Normally Id say take out the battery but one cannot do that with the iPhone so you need to try the hard reset.
Push the power button and the start/ HOME button at the same time. This should restart the iPhone. If you cant do this, then its a tech issue for support, those geniuses, I guess.
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have you tried a hard re-set? Hold down the power button and home button down together until the screen turns off, usually this will show the slide to power off would appear and you continue to hold until the screen re-freshes, but in your case I would just persevere until the screen reacts. If this doesnt work then I am not sure... Good luck.
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Hi Rory... sorry youve come unstuck. Youre not alone!
There are various threads that may be of help. In the end I managed to kcikstart my phone after the Apple Logo of Death by following advice I found on here... connect the phone to your computer. Do a hard reset by holding both power and home buttons down until the Apple logo comes up - then continue to hold down for a good while yet... itll reboot either once or twice and with luck iTunes will then recognise the phone and offer you the chance to restore.
Then if youre really lucky you may be able to restore from your last backup. I wasnt so lucky - it told me that my backup was either corrupt or wasnt compatible with my iPhone.
It may also be worth scanning the forums further before you give up on your data by doing a hard reset... seems that there may be a magic combination of keystrokes that can temporarily revive the phone for at least long enough to get off your valuable photos etc...
Hope this helps a bit! At least you know youre not on your own anyway!
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forgot to say, if you connect it to iTunes you could try the restore function on the info tab, sorry if you have already... This will wipe and reset the phone from scratch.
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Gents, many thanks for all your responses. Nice to know its not just me. I did think I had cracked it. I plugged it in, pressed the home and power button and held while it cycled through. I tunes recognised it and told me that I had to restore it and upgrade to 2.1. Downloaded that and hit restore! Then it lulled me into a false sense of security. Made out that it was fixing the problem... Cunning!! Then it stopped. It cant restore it because of an unknown error 1611 (if its unknown then why does it have a number?). So I am admitting defeat. I shall take it back to the store at the weekend and spend the rest of the week adapting to mobile phone free living!!
Thanks for all the advice... Will definitely come back here when I have my next problem!!!

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Zachsdaddy wrote:
We still need key features...

1. Copy & Paste
http://apple.com/feedback
2. LANDSCAPE KEYBOARD MODE FOR EMAIL!
http://apple.com/feedback
3. Media/Flash Player
Complain to Adobe. They need to develop it and submit it.
4. Video Player
The iPhone already does play video.
5. Zoom for camera
Photo editing software will do zooming for you. Fixed focus lens do a horrid job with digital zooming.
6. Multiple delete for photos
http://apple.com/feedback
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