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A strange situation has arisen around T-Mobile (NYSE: DT)-land. The issue concerns the T-Mobile G1 in particular. Seems as though, due to ‘issues with messaging servers’, G1 users have/are receiving SMS and MMS messages from others that didn’t even send them in the first place. The issue has been ongoing for a week or so [...]

Filed under: Culture , Messaging , O2 If Americans really send twice as many text messages as Europeans, we'd hate to see the figures from the Big 4 here in the States. According to O2 UK, a record 166 million text messages were sent over its network in a 24-hour period that ended at 7:30AM on January 1, 2009. For those not exactly near their abacus, that breaks down to around 1,900 messages per second . Furthermore, over 16 million texts were saved by O2 subscribers using its own Bluebook backup service, though we can't imagine "HNY09!one1!1" messages being all that compelling to revisit, say, every day after 01/01/09. [Image courtesy of Israelity ] O2 sees a record 166 million text messages fly during New Year's celebration originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Messaging Not sure if you've noticed, but text / video messaging has remained fairly constant while web browsing, multimedia playback and navigation applications have all steadily improved. Thankfully, The Wireless Association and its awesomely named Enhanced Messaging Action Team has a thing or two to say about that. The group has just released its Final Set of Use Cases and Call Flows for the development of Enhanced Messaging solutions, which have reportedly been agreed to by every major US carrier. This provides said carriers with "a complete set of the tools and information" that they can use to develop interoperable Enhanced Messaging products, enabling both Group Messaging and Presence functionality. The former enables "multiple users to interact with text based communication on their mobile devices, as well as support multimedia files in group communications," while the entire Enhanced Messaging platform is said to be "a presence-enabled mobile messaging service that allows for richer real-time text messaging and communications than traditional mobile messaging." Hard to say when any meaningful developments beyond this will occur, but we're clearly just years away from SMS telepathy. [Image courtesy of Cast-Online ] Group Messaging / Presence to keep your messaging sessions rich originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets , Messaging , Multimedia , Software , Apple We've heard a few things about the Mobispine MMS app supposedly being developed for the iPhone, but the company's just answered a lot of questions, and we thought we'd give you a quick rundown. Interestingly, the app will utilize Apple's announced but delayed push notification, which Mobispine says is due "pretty soon," though carriers may use SMS notification in lieu of the service. The company says that the app will be carrier-branded, and that it will be up to them how much to charge you, the MMS-starved consumer. Mobispine says that the software will "probably" be made available through the App Store, "probably" because it's still in some vague phase of development, and has yet to be approved by Apple. Just let us know when the thing is ready, okay guys? [Thanks, Carlos] Mobispine pens tell all about their iPhone MMS app, doesn't exactly tell all originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Handsets , Messaging , Multimedia , Software , Apple The oft-bemoaned lack of certain, um... capabilities of the the iPhone is forcing individual companies to take desperate measures, it seems. It's not entirely clear, but MacWorld says it's confirmed with Telia that the Swedish-Finnish carrier's developing an MMS-enabling app for the iPhone. MacWorld says the app will hit the market in the next two months, which is great news for everyone in Sweden. If you live anywhere else in the world, however, you'll just have to continue on, rueing the day you ever encountered Apple's MMS-spurning, copy and paste-hating handset. Update: Though the source is Swedish, it's entirely reasonable to believe that this'll spread across all of Telia's markets (and the world?). Thanks, commenters! [Thanks, Martin] MMS-capabilities coming soon to a Swedish iPhone? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

So on my longwards journey to try and Apple’s infamous device to handle email, I investigataed A LOT of solutions… this one I found sitting on the InterWeb - and certainly it managed to alleviate my problems to some extent. With the kind permission of Jim Martin (Traveller 2.0) then, I reproduce the solution steps here: On [...]