“john

December 19, 2008 • 9:00 pm
i running 2.2 on a jailbroken 3g, with att the settings i used were
mmsc: http//:mmsc.cingular.com
proxy: wireless.cingular.com:80
apn,username,password are all left empty

works fine but i do have a family plan with messaging unlimited and the other phone is a blackjack 2″

FIVE STARS!!!!!!

Big thanks to SwirlySpace for making a workaround to process MMS directly from an App on the iPhone while Apple built this functionality into it’s TXT app!

1. The MMS notification of receipt doesn’t show on a locked iPhone screen, which is very different behavior to a SMS message which shows before you swipe to unlock the phone and read the message. This means more user activity required before the message is read and a major chance that the received message will go unnoticed.

2. There is no PURGE functionality for deleting more than 1 message at a time in SwirlyMMS. We use T-Mobile’s MMS email address to notify us when a server needs some attention and its possible with a major outtage to receive 100 MMS messages at once. Deleting these is a MAJOR pain in the rump. Not only is it hard to delete a single MMS message from the inbox as it is so easy to swipe the message and open it rather than deleting it, but SwirlyMMS lacks a full PURGE function to delete all messages. This might not be as big a deal if there was a ‘Mark all as Read’ option or something like that, but I’m getting really sick of having to manually delete each message individually so that I can see the indicator that a new message was received.

These are MAJOR issues for someone who relies on MMS messages for notifications and I have a big problem with the author of this article not identifying them by actually using the application up front. Sure, SwirlyMMS is the best of a limited number of solutions, but its far from being 5/5 for usability.