This is no surprise, when it’s 25p to send a picture, that MMS hasn’t been the start of the multimedia revolution. Now I’ve got two camera phones, a Sony Ericsson T610 and a Handspring Treo 600 and I use both to take pictures, but very rarely actually send them on. The Handspring picture app, sync’s the pictures on the Treo to your PC, so you can then do with them what you wish.
It’s like the piece on the failure of 3G with it’s high hopes for video phones, it looks like 99% of us actually just want to talk on a phone.
Well, at least we want to talk, SMS and access mobile Internet services.
Tom Hume has an interesting take on the stats behind the ‘low MMS takeup’ story too: http://www.tomhume.org/archives/000296.html
Hi Martin,
Maybe Tom has a point, where was SMS at the same point in it’s life?
There’s an article today in The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/phone_exam_cheat/) about kids using MMS as an aid to cheating in exams. So may MMS has found it’s USP after all
Cheers!