El 15/06/2005, a las 4:01, Kyle Barrow escribió:
> Has anyone worked out Vodafone Japan's MMS connections settings? My
> 6680 wants to play with MMS.
Kyle, I read in your blog about this, which seemed to imply that MMS
are somehow trendy in Japan now, which strikes me as surprisingly
retrograding, unless that MMS thingy is either different from Spain's
MMS, or I have been able to completely miss what it is about them
here as well.
As fas as I knew, MMS are simply SMS with longer texts, and the
ability to attach pictures, videos or sounds.
Considering that Japan has had e-mail in phones at ridiculous fares
compared to Spanish ones (and I pressume the landscape is similar in
the rest of Europe), how can it be any "cool" being able to do the
same as before, only that way more expensive and more limited in the
data that you can send?
I confess (and probably have made it quite obvious by now) that I am
not very familiarized of what are the fares of keitai e-mails and MMS
in Japan (although a Japanese friend told me that she "thought" that
receiving or sending an e-mail costed her about less than one yen,
whereas in Spain an SMS is about 15 euro cents, and a MMS is 60
whooping euro cents last time I checked, about four or five months
ago), and also that I do know what can and cannot be done with keitai
e-mail.
I do know, though, that here I can check my regular e-mail with my
now-not-so-trendy Nokia N-Gage, that I can attach and receive
attachments on that e-mail, be them video, sounds, pictures, word
docs or whatever obscure document format my nasty application of
choice uses, at regular GPRS fares, currently being around 0,005 euro/
KByte unless you are a big spender and take bonus packs, in which
case it turns cheaper (beyond 20 euro I think). In that case I can
send what I could stuff in an MMS worth 60 cents (let's say… a jpeg
weighting 50 KB? I do not know the limits of MMS), in an e-mail which
would cost me around 25 cents. If, otherwise, I simply want to use
MMS for the sake of being able to send text messages >1000chars, the
price difference is even more insultating.
The only (major) catches are that MMS are pushed to the destination
terminal, while e-mail has to be checked, and that not all terminals
here (most, in fact) can check POP or IMAP mail.
So, what's the deal with Japanese MMS that regular keitai e-mail does
not accomplish? And what's the price for using it?
Jorge
Received on Thu Jun 16 02:39:25 2005