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P800: How easy is it to send other people pictures??
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Posted by: k2director

I can't wait for this phone. But I'm just curious if any current P800 owners can tell me:

How easy is it to take a picture with the P800's built in camera, and then "send" it to other users via multimedia messaging? I'm fantasizing about taking pictures of places I am (LA, San Fran, New York), and enclosing them in quick, fun little messages to friends and so on, but I'm curious if this is really practical.

The devil's in the details, and I hope not to be disappointed by a clunky interface, or some other technical gotchas...

Posted by: Bengalboy

It is very easy. Just tap the box for text, photos, voice, audio, etc in the preinstalled MMS templates, attach your photo, record your voice, attach audio file, etc. hit done, hit send... I have done it several times and with member Aleman who replyed with his voice recording. Very fun and entertaining!

Posted by: jeffharris

And, also, according to T-mobile, the max file size for MMS is 55K. If you have the P800 set to 640x480, at high quality, you could exceed that file size, in which case, it is equally as easy to e-mail it as an attachment through POP3 mail.

Posted by: john74

im just wondering if your networks in the states support 55kb max thats pretty slack dont you think on sending mms then the photos taken on the P800 pass 70kb(640x480) easily?have you tried sending a small mp4 video via mms???Greece supports 100kb as a maximum limit on mms so thats a little better i suppose , 55kb is not that much at all

Posted by: jeffharris

Well, John, MMS on T-Mobile USA is a little inconsistent. If the MMS server is being "updated", there can be a huge delay anyway in delivery. For surefire completion, I use POP3 anyway -- it's only to send to my wife's T-Mobile phone, would I use MMS, and I make sure it's a small file size -- which is why I wish there was a resolution switcher right on the communicam screen, rather than have to go into preferences.

Posted by: k2director

THanks for the feedback, all. Sounds like I shouldn't have too many problems with sending pics, either through MMS or email. Can't wait...

Posted by: stevek

I guess the more important part would be finding other people with MMS-enabled phones to send to. That's one reason I'm not jumping into any of these newer camera phones... mainly because I would probably be the only person I knew with a phone that supports it...