Just upgraded to the Galaxy S4 on EE and received the first bill which shows MMS charges. Didn't realise that we would get charged as it was included in the last contract with Orange.

 

What is the best app for sending MMS over data? Not wanting something that requires the recipient to have the app as well as a number of my contacts are still using (very) old phones which don't do apps!

 

Any ideas?

If it's being sent over data, as I understand it they need to receive the data in the same way. Whats app is good for using to someone else with it (it's a popular app) but for someone with a old phone that has no app capacity it'll have to be via the normal way. 

Sadly there aren't any mms apps I know of.

Either send as email (data) or swallow the mms cost.

If you send as email, watch your data allowance unless on wifi. Sending lots of images will eat your data.

Sadly there aren't any mms apps I know of.

Either send as email (data) or swallow the mms cost.

If you send as email, watch your data allowance unless on wifi. Sending lots of images will eat your data.

Data really isnt an issue as I have jumped from 750MB to 3GB and never been near the limit yet. Also the amount of picture messages I send is pretty small.

You can't technically send mms over an ap as far as im aware its a big con. But 'whatsap' is a messenger that can send picture and vids using your data. Everyone i know uses it. Think i paid about 60p for it at the end of my year trial.

You can't technically send mms over an ap as far as im aware its a big con. But 'whatsap' is a messenger that can send picture and vids using your data. Everyone i know uses it. Think i paid about 60p for it at the end of my year trial.

Whatsapp is no use for me as a lot of the folk I would send picture messages to are still on old phones with no access to apps of any sort.

Whatsapp is no use for me as a lot of the folk I would send picture messages to are still on old phones with no access to apps of any sort.

Then you'll have to suck up the cost, unfortunately. MMS already uses "data", but each network has a special 2G/3G/4G "access point" which allows only MMS usage (and doesn't count towards your normal data usage because you're being charged separately for it). For this reason, you'll find that if you send an MMS while connected to WiFi, your phone may disconnect and re-establish a 2/3/4G connection for the duration of sending the MMS, then reconnect to the WiFi network again. No way around it, I'm afraid, until your friends upgrade to smartphones and can use WhatsApp, or just accept that they'll have to use email to be able to receive your pictures.

As for being a big con, it's not really. It's something that's been around for millions of years (in technology terms), is archaic technology, but some people still use it so it's there but costs an amount to run on top of the actual data usage so the cost has to be covered by those people using it. I would guess that eventually when usage gets low enough it'll just be withdrawn, probably at the same time SMS disappears for good (the two technologies are linked AFAIK).