Holidays 2007 Were NOT The Year Of The MMS

I declared previously that the 2007 holiday season would be the year of the MMS taking over. We’re all familiar with the generic, corny SMS messages that get sent about during the Holidays, and I was hoping that this year, we’d go multimedia and add pics or short video clips to the fun.

I tried, I really did. It *could* have been my phone, I’ll admit. Using my N95, I created a very simple MMS with an image of me and my fiance, with a short message. Nothing too fancy. I then proceeded to add everyone in my address book (~235, thanks to a recent cleaning) and press send, like I do with SMS. Not so fast, says the phone. I can’t send to that many recipients at once. However, I wasn’t informed as to how many I *could* send to. By trial and error, I found that I could do 5 at a time. No thanks, so I switched back to the trusty SMS to get my holiday cheer across.

I found this really disturbing, though. Why can’t I send an MMS to more than 5 people? To this point, I can understand why the iPhone doesn’t have MMS. It’s such a limited way to share media. MMS is capped at 300KB, and apparently can only be sent to a limited number of people at one time. The only reason it’s preferred over email is because the carriers count it as a message, rather than data, and thus, it’s typically cheaper for consumers.

Were you able to send MMS greetings this holiday? Did you receive any in response?