Comments on: U.S. cell phone firms allow cross-carrier photo swaps

Cingular and Verizon Wireless are accepting photo mails from each other's subscribers in hopes of juicing cell phone use.

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Who cares about phone to phone?

Just give me the option of uploading my photos to a PC via a simple cable instead of making me go through their demented mail service in the first place.

[John Kuzak]

cable instead

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Poor implementation

Lame. I (verizon) sent a pic to my girl (cingular) and she got a text message with a url and a reference number to view the image. If I wanted her to view the pic on a computer I would have EMAILED it to her from my phone (and saved her a dime). I thought the whole point was to send MMS from phone to phone between carriers ?!? This is just stupid.

MMS Capable Devices

Harry...

Sorry to hear about your experience going x-carrier. It truly does work most of the time, however, there are certain devices that either do not allow MMS (called Legacy devices) and thus give the user to access a picture sent to them on a web site.

However, if your girlfriend's phone is MMS capable that should be reported as an issue so we can determine what type of phone the message came from and was going to and correct any issues within transcoding.

Hope this helps a little bit,
Paul