Text

One of the biggest changes to firmware 3.0 is the app name change from “Text” to “Messages”. The icon was also changed, now with a blank chat bubble where before it had the letters SMS. Of course SMS stands for Short Message Service, which is only texting, but now Messages send pictures, contacts & current location. The icon, along with a few others like the Phone and iPod icons, have a new style shading to them. See the icon at the beginning of this post to see what I mean. Continue reading »

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WIT Software has announced a full MMS application for the iPhone. The catch is it’s only available to the Portuguese App Store right now. They plan to get it in more places but we’ll see how Apple handles that. Since we can’t test it, we have the press release, a demo video and some screenshots! Continue reading »

As most everyone knows, one of the biggest downfalls of the iPhone is the missing picture messaging. I was reading through our forum and zachdrago had written how to send MMS or picture messages to AT&T users. I have done this before with Verizon but I thought it would be kewl to list all the services that allow for this feature. Basically the way it works is you put the person’s phone number before whatever domain name that company uses for picture or text messaging.

zachdrago’s instructions:

1) choose the picture you want to send, and hit “email photo.” 2) in the “to:” field type the person’s cell phone number followed by @mms.att.net. now send, it’s that simple. EX: 5552345678@mms.att.net

I’ll get a list started and as you let me know in the comments, I’ll add it to the list. Thanks zachdrago! Here’s the ones I know: Continue reading »

The text application on the iPhone lets you send SMS text messages to other cell phones. The design looks like two cartoon like chat bubbles talking back and forth. All past texts are always visible by scrolling up. I feel this looks is designed to feel more like chatting than texting which will increase text messages and make AT&T more money. Some downfalls to the text feature are no MMS texting. So no picture or video texting, and also no texting to a group. And you can’t receive picture texts either. You have to go to viewmymessage.com and enter a username and password that comes with the text to see the text. Links however are clickable within the text and will open right into Safari.

Custom Balloon Colors
You can also change the colors of the balloons by installing Customize. Here’s what it can look like:

Joshua Bryant has designed some new matte SMS bubbles for texting. If you have Customize installed you can just make a folder in /private/var/root/Library/Customize/Chat1Images/ called Matte and copy them there. You’ll also want to do this for /private/var/root/Library/Customize/Chat2Images

You can Download the files here.