If you live in the United Kingdom, you no longer have to exist without MMS (media messaging system) messaging on your iPhone, but US iPhone users will have to keep waiting, according to iPhone Hacks.  Also, it appears that this app’s dependence upon UK carrier O2 is the main reason why it’s only available in the UK at this point.  In theory, the same technique could be applied to AT&T.  Any UK users to this yet?  How does it work?

Tags: at&t, iphone, media, media messaging, mms, mms messaging, o2, photo, photo messaging, sms, uk, us

In the spirit of BGR’s “Top Ten Things We Hate About Our iPhone“, I’ll pile on with a top ten list of my own:

1) Spoken UI elements - Sometimes you need to hear it, not see it. Particularly true of caller ID.

2) Screen rotation in E-mail - This one is a must. Fat-fingering email compositions can be very frustrating in portrait mode.

3) Copy & Paste - While this doesn’t kill our routine every day, having access to a simple clipboard for text snippets would be extremely helpful.

4) A standardized import/export format for Contacts - We can already get iCal files into Apple’s calendaring app, and subscribing to them via the web is simple enough, but those of us who use our Macs for serious business REALLY need is a conduit betweem CRM apps like Salesforce/Now-up-to-date/etc. into iPhone contacts.  This is an absolute must.

5) Video recording - Seriously.  We still can’t record video on the iPhone?  Apple, get your head out of your posterior.

6) MMS messaging- See comment on #5.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that media messaging is a required feature on all cell phones (especially “smart” ones).

7) Better Bluetooth compatibility - Starting with Bluetooth File Exchange, please.

Random wallpaper - Yup, we want our iPhone to choose our wallpaper for us, just like our desktop computer does.

9) Universal charger compatibility - All those old iPod chargers that output the right voltage and have the right plug?  You can’t use ‘em.  Time to fix that, Apple.

10) More than four page panels for apps - It didn’t take long to fill up the four available pages with apps. Let’s add another page or two.

Tags: 2.3, apple, features, iphone, mms, recording, software, top ten, video

How’s it done exactly?  Well, if you’re fed up with not being able to send those beautiful 2 megapixel photos from your iPhone to your peeps, then you should download SwirlyMMS, a utility that adds media messaging functionality to the iPhone.  Why Apple didn’t see fit to include this in either the first or second-generation iPhones with MMS support out of the box (or video recording for that matter) is beyond us, but hey–Apple’s a quirky bunch.

Oh, don’t bother with the App store on this one. It’s not available there yet.

Tags: apple, appstore, camera, mms, software