Why do iPhone text show up as MMS?

[4wheelfurry]

Happening to me. Boss has iPhone and every "NEW" txt he sends me comes through as a MMS but if he sends me a txt in his threaded convos with me it sends me a regular SMS. Our Secratery's iPhone does exactly the same thing. My wife's TreoPro will not do it???

[shaggylive]

that makes sense. apple figures everybody wants to send multi-media messages, or at least the exact same way they do txt.

[Mojary]

yeah been happening to me on and off ever since beginning of summer. when i was using the tp2, every now and then, my sister's texts would come as an mms. that it's just to ask if i was coming home for the weekend. when i started using bb, it happens once in a while still.

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by shaggylive

that makes sense. apple figures everybody wants to send multi-media messages, or at least the exact same way they do txt.

Wonder if this is a way for ATT to increase the individual usage towards their data cap.
Not familiar with MMS data usage math.
Amateur conspiracy theorist tho

[eric12341]

this didn't happen to me

[scrosler]

I get plenty of texts from my brother who is using an iphone 3gs and this has never happened to me.

[superflysocal]

don't know if this helps but this started happening to me from only one friend with iphone, and i think it started happening after i sent him a pic (mms), so i always thought it was because he was replying through that mms when he sends me a text and that's why i receive it as mms (which happens even if you are not on iphone). Some of his texts are sms still though so i thought it was how he is sending text, whether he choses to reply from mms or sms.

[HTCotta]

Yep that's exactly the pattern i've noticed. When I send a picture to my dad on his BlackBerry if he replies to it, it's an MMS. Also, when my friend with an iPhone sends me a group text or replies to a group text, it's an MMS.

[stcardinal]

This happened recently to me and my friend said it was because she sent out a mass txt.