iPhone SMS

[Rosco]

I have a nokia n900.... it's half smartphone, half netbook/web tablet and I gets loads of techy bang for my buck with it.... but every time a certain client sends me a text from his iphone it doesn't come to my phone... instead I get it sent to me by O2 as a .txt attachment

However I get texts from other iphone users no problem

It should be noted that the n900 doesn't yet natively support MMS (strange, I know)

Anybody encountered this kind of thing?

[Chris H]

Here we go! http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/60431-nokia-n900-how-can-i-set-up-fmms/

[sarahA]

It could be that your client is sending MMS messages by mistake. It's easy to do as I discovered when I first got my iphone!

[Rosco]

Cheers, I was vaguely aware of a recently-released app that added MMS support to the N900...I'll look into installing it.

I'm pretty sure now that it's his iPhone settings, because when I texted him (via SMS) he replied no problem... so it's obviously when he's composing a new message it's sending as MMS.

Anybody (sarah!) care to tell me how to change the default setting so I can pass it on?

[Mr Anderson]

I believe: Under settings > messages disable the subject field so that he can't use it, or just tell him to not to use the subject field. That'll stop sending plain SMSs as MMSs (he can click the camera icon to still send an MMS if needed). Or if he wants to disable fully he can do under the same settings section.

[sickpuppy]

IT JUST WORKS!

[Mr Anderson]

IT JUST WORKS!

Indeed it does

If you include any media, or a subject it sends an MMS as an SMS can't include attached media or a subject line. If you don't it will send as an SMS. How simple and easy is that 

[sickpuppy]

IT JUST WORKS!

Indeed it does

If you include any media, or a subject it sends an MMS as an SMS can't include attached media or a subject line. If you don't it will send as an SMS. How simple and easy is that 

Pretty sure my crappy old sony phone used to just make the subject part of the message if there wasn't any actual multimedia content (or it may have just skipped it altogether but I know it didn't send it as an MMS)

Do MMS messages still cost quite a bit more than SMS ones to send?

[Mr Anderson]

With my old Nokias I'd have to go through a menu to choose the format I wanted to send, which was a bit clumsier than this. Having the phone know to include the subject in as a part of the message when there was only text would be the best option, so your Sony was ahead of things if it was doing that. I wouldn't want it discarding the subject though, if that was the way it worked, as I'd rather the message be sent as an MMS than be discarded entirely if I was to fill in the subject instead of the message field by mistake.

They're possibly still more expensive. I have MMS turned off on my phone and send by email instead, so haven't bothered to check the tarrif for that. It could also be included in my data package too.

[sarahA]

I've sent MMS messages on my phone and I don't see them cost anything on the bill. In fact the only cost above our monthly fee are SMS's sent abroad.

Because MMS's are sent via GPRS/3G they're charged for at a higher rate, but as we have free internet access I think that's why we don't get charged. In fact it's mad, we have about 250 free SMS's and if we ever (unlikely) used them up in a month we'd have to pay, yet we seem to send MMS's for free!

On my old personal contract it was 10p for an SMS and about 20 or 30p for an MMS usually