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mittenman · 04-13-2009, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by shutter13

I assume that on the 3G you receive even an edge signal through the 3G chip, perhaps the software limitation is that it has to pass through said chip. I do not know the technical specs for these things, so maybe I'm wrong. I can say though, that so far mms is working fine on my iPhone 3G with no 3G signal and/or with 3G turned off.

I hadn't thought about it, but yes it is odd. Since MMS counts towards a message count and (if no message plan) data. There really is no reason to be able to turn it off or on, since we are required to have a data plan and we cannot turn sms on and off.

This may be because ATT hasn't set up the MMS for iPhones yet. Possibly, when 3.0 official comes out and ATT is ready for MMS on iPhone, it will only work on 3G service. ??????

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mittenman Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Nowhere, Mitten Posts: 810 Thanks: 56 Thanked 37 Times in 31 Posts	Originally Posted by shutter13 I assume that on the 3G you receive even an edge signal through the 3G chip, perhaps the software limitation is that it has to pass through said chip. I do not know the technical specs for these things, so maybe I'm wrong. I can say though, that so far mms is working fine on my iPhone 3G with no 3G signal and/or with 3G turned off. I hadn't thought about it, but yes it is odd. Since MMS counts towards a message count and (if no message plan) data. There really is no reason to be able to turn it off or on, since we are required to have a data plan and we cannot turn sms on and off. This may be because ATT hasn't set up the MMS for iPhones yet. Possibly, when 3.0 official comes out and ATT is ready for MMS on iPhone, it will only work on 3G service. ??????