MMS support for posting images?
July 7, 2010 8:43 AM
Sending images to the web via MMS (not email)?
Just got a new camera phone (I know-- welcome to 2001), and I'd like to use it to send images to flickr and one of the twitter services.
It seems like the ability to send images to these services via multimedia messages is no longer offered-- one can only email them or use a mobile app. Yfrog and twitpic are both email-only, apparently. As is flickr (though I think I remember a time when it accepted MMS photos).
Since I have no data plan (calls and messages only). I'm hoping there is a service that I just I haven't found yet.
Has anyone found a service that allows this? Or, even an MMS service that allows users to post images not related to these services? The thing is, I just want to get images from my phone to somewhere sharable without using email or a data plan.
Just got a new camera phone (I know-- welcome to 2001), and I'd like to use it to send images to flickr and one of the twitter services.
It seems like the ability to send images to these services via multimedia messages is no longer offered-- one can only email them or use a mobile app. Yfrog and twitpic are both email-only, apparently. As is flickr (though I think I remember a time when it accepted MMS photos).
Since I have no data plan (calls and messages only). I'm hoping there is a service that I just I haven't found yet.
Has anyone found a service that allows this? Or, even an MMS service that allows users to post images not related to these services? The thing is, I just want to get images from my phone to somewhere sharable without using email or a data plan.
You can MMS to an email address. I'm not sure how that works in terms of data plan usage though.
posted by kmz at 8:51 AM on July 7, 2010
posted by kmz at 8:51 AM on July 7, 2010
I should have mentioned-- the phone I'm using attempts to connect to the internet when I send an MMS message to an email address rather than a phone number. I'll investigate that further, though.
posted by activitystory at 9:06 AM on July 7, 2010
posted by activitystory at 9:06 AM on July 7, 2010
an LG remarq on Spring.
posted by activitystory at 9:38 AM on July 7, 2010
posted by activitystory at 9:38 AM on July 7, 2010
er, Sprint.
posted by activitystory at 9:40 AM on July 7, 2010
posted by activitystory at 9:40 AM on July 7, 2010
Flickr supports this fully. You sign up, they text you an unique email address to which you then MMS the photos (using the subject line as the photo title.) Your phone should be able to MMS w/o connecting to the internet, as well.
posted by griphus at 10:33 AM on July 7, 2010
posted by griphus at 10:33 AM on July 7, 2010
Seems like a Sprint thing. I can send MMS to some email addresses, but not others. & the message itself isn't just an image and text, it's a resized image and a link to an image hosted at Sprint.
I can't find any reference to a number-based address for MMS messages at flickr, so I'm guessing this was discontinued, if it ever existed. Thanks all.
posted by activitystory at 12:05 PM on July 7, 2010
I can't find any reference to a number-based address for MMS messages at flickr, so I'm guessing this was discontinued, if it ever existed. Thanks all.
posted by activitystory at 12:05 PM on July 7, 2010
One more datapoint: Sprint users are charged for data usage when sending picture messages, even if they have paid for a picture messaging add-on.
posted by activitystory at 7:05 AM on July 8, 2010
posted by activitystory at 7:05 AM on July 8, 2010
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posted by deezil at 8:49 AM on July 7, 2010