Sprint Denies PPC customers from sending picmail - Page 22

rjfranken · #**211** (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 09:55 PM

Is a post here (buzz) a signing of the petition or is the petition hiding somewhere?

#**212** (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 10:35 PM

Who knows...the descriptions for sending pictures are the same on Sprint's site for the Treo 755p and the Touch ("Take pictures and videos and share them easily with family and friends."

You are right in that it could be a valid reason, but since the BB 8830 that my girlfriend (Verizon) uses for work can do MMS, yet the BB 8830 I used to have with Sprint couldn't, I don't buy that as the real reason. Same goes for the 8130 (pearl). Verizon's can, Sprint's cannot.

Makes me think something other than big, bad Microsoft is to blame.

**Pibe38** · #**213** (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by AnthroMatt

Who knows...the descriptions for sending pictures are the same on Sprint's site for the Treo 755p and the Touch ("Take pictures and videos and share them easily with family and friends."

You are right in that it could be a valid reason, but since the BB 8830 that my girlfriend (Verizon) uses for work can do MMS, yet the BB 8830 I used to have with Sprint couldn't, I don't buy that as the real reason. Same goes for the 8130 (pearl). Verizon's can, Sprint's cannot.

Makes me think something other than big, bad Microsoft is to blame.

I was thinking more along the lines of Sprint being at blame

Obviously it can be done on a CDMA network as proven by VZW, so maybe Sprint just didn't want to pay licensing fees for WM and BB... who knows.

**wldthng842** · #**214** (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 12:55 PM

To the best of my knowledge no BB has MMS. I have been wrong before but I thought that was a feature it has always lacked on any carrier. Please prove me wrong if I am, but that was my impression.

#**215** (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by wldthng842

To the best of my knowledge no BB has MMS. I have been wrong before but I thought that was a feature it has always lacked on any carrier. Please prove me wrong if I am, but that was my impression.

Nope, BB's do have MMS...even a long time ago (2005) when I used the 7100t on T-Mobile they were MMS capable.

If you look at the product description for the 8130 (CDMA Pearl) they say MMS is available on "some versions" heh heh. Yay Sprint.

Does look like I may have been mistaken about VZW's 8830 having MMS...I swore I saw it when I was setting things up for my girlfriend, but apparently not. Or her BES admin disabled MMS and the setting is gone now that she activated it.

**wldthng842** · #**216** (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 01:14 PM

Then I'm wrong. I have no idea why sprint would ignore such a feature. They have the server side, it would have to be licensing I guess. I can't think of any other reason. Setting up an actual petition would be a nice idea. One that includes both BB and WM. If someone gets one up let me know. I can try to get it front page coverage on PhoneNews.com. It should get a lot of signatures.

**guitardoc64** · #**217** (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by rjfranken

Is a post here (buzz) a signing of the petition or is the petition hiding somewhere?

Not here, but here: http://forums.buzzaboutwireless.com/...thread.id=2455

itsall_cooool · #**218** (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 09:30 PM

All of the above does not explain why the workaround MMS solution we came up with has been BLOCKED by Sprint. Obviously, we CAN send PIX messages/MMS because up until 1-1/2 months ago we WERE. Sprint claimed too much traffic on their system, then some lame thing about porn pictures.....

Yet all their DUMB phone users can send pix/MMS and porn or whatever they like. You would think that since Sprint markets the PPC devices as BUSINESS devices they wouldn't worry about such siliness. \

The other thing that puzzles me is this: wont this block cause more traffic on their e-mail servers as they force us to send pics through e-mail? I totally believe this was a vendetta against PPC users after all the flack over issues with PPC devices. It makes no sense when you consider blocking the Arcsoft workaround creates more e-mail traffic. THUMBS DOWN TO SPRINT

**guitardoc64** · #**219** (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by itsall_cooool

All of the above does not explain why the workaround MMS solution we came up with has been BLOCKED by Sprint. Obviously, we CAN send PIX messages/MMS because up until 1-1/2 months ago we WERE. Sprint claimed too much traffic on their system, then some lame thing about porn pictures.....

the latest explanation is that we are guilty of software piracy by taking the Arcsoft app and setting it to send to the Sprint server. Supposedly they "discovered" it was being used and blocked the app to prevent legal actions by Verizon's app being "pirated" to send picmail. I posted on the buzzaboutwireless that to my knowledge the app came as part of a software upgrade package and was benign.

Arrr matey! I'm a friggin pirate!

dzuchowski · #**220** (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 06:56 PM

Whats the big deal anyway? all i do is click on send to it opens my email i select the contact info (for people with cell service i add in the phone # @pm.sprint.com and it sends it as pic mail and it uploads it to my pic mail account and i do use a sprint mogul. i -even emailed to me at myphone#@pm.sprint.com and it said i have new pic mail and click to view. real simple