Ever wanted to send a pic in to mobmms but don't want to pay for the price of an MMS?
Now you don't have to!
I've just added a new method of sending pics in, where you only pay for the data you send (so if you get data included in your tariff, it's free!).
As an example, it'd cost me 36p to send an MMS from Vodafone, even if the photo was really small in size.
I've just sent in http://www.mobmms.com/view/3219.html which isn't the best quality in the world, but it's 4.62kb in size. This means, instead of paying 36p to send in that photo, I've only had to pay 1.05p!!! (well, technically it was free for me as it's part of my bundle).
calculations: £2.35 per MB on my tariff, my pic 0.0045MB, so 235p x 0.0045 = 1.0575p
But just think...that's waaaay less than the price of a text, but instead of sending 160 characters, I've sent in a photo AND text!
Want to send in videos?!
No problem, here's my example:
http://www.mobmms.com/view/3149.html
That file was 36.2kb in size, which means it cost me 8.32p - still less than the price of a normal text message but I've now sent in a video!
On my provider, i'd have been charged 60p to send a video mms!
Calculations: 235p x 0.0354 = 8.319p
On my provider, I think there's a 100KB file-size limit on the video mms messages too - they allow a max of 100kb for the cost of 60p. Using the new mobmms method, you have no limit on the file-size sent, and it would mean you could send a video of about 260KB in size before it could cost you the same price as a normal video MMS! That's over 2.5 times the amount of data for the same cost!
As if that wasn't enough, it'll give much greater possibilities in terms of user albums and stuff, plus you can now see which phone sent in the MMS! (6230i in the case of the example image above)
Sounds really good doesn't it? In fact...too good? Well yes, the only downside is you need to alter your mms settings, which means you'll need to change them back again if you want to send an MMS to anywhere except mobmms.com - however, for the technically able, this is a small inconvenience for the much cheaper/free mms sending
It's really easy too once you've found the settings.
So...here's how to help beta test!
Techno-babble:
You need to change your MMSC center to reflect that of mob's own MMSC center which will sort out all the mms sending for you.
What do I need to change the MMSC to?
Visit http://www.mobmms.com/mmsc/pwd.php on your computer and log in to be given your own unique MMSC center. Your mob453 usernames will work over on mobmms.com btw, so if you've got an account on these forums, no need to sign up again.
How to change this "MMSC" thing:
Here's how to change the mmsc on a nokia (well, worked on my 6230i):
Menu > Settings > Configuration > Personal Configuration Settings > Add new
Then you need to change the account used to send the mms:
Menu > Messages > Message Settings > Multimedia msgs. > Configuration settings > Configuration
Then choose Personal config., and make sure Account is set to whatever you saved it as in the first step.
Then just send an MMS in like you normally would!
That's all there is to it!
Just let me know how it goes!
Note: if you can't visit http://wap.mobmms.com on your phone due to an adult content filter (ie Vodafone has this implemented), replace the mobmms.com bit in the mmsc url given on http://www.mobmms.com/mmsc/pwd.php with mob453.com, and it'll work just fine
Post any questions etc up here!
