One of the worst parts about the iPhone is the fact that you cannot send or receive MMS messages. I had the same problem with my Treo as I did not pay for the MMS package, but with the iPhone it is particularly annoying because the phone is so advanced and every other media aspect of it works so damn well.
When you receive an MMS it has a note from ATT and a link to www.viewmymessage.com. This link either ends in a /1 or a /2. I don't even know what the /1 or /2 is for, but my guess it is a lazy form of load balancing on the part of ATT.
ATT should be really ashamed of viewmymessage.com. It tarnishes the ATT logo which is on top of the page. The site is an incredible pain is the ass to use. I have never even been able to get it to work in any browser other than IE. The system takes forever to load and probably 80% of the time gives me quirky browser errors.
Tonight when trying to view a message I saw the following 400 error in IE:
I kept trying again and again. Finally I checked in Firefox to see what it would show. Invalid path /2en/en/2en/en/jp...
If Apple is never going to support MMS then ATT needs to at least fix their website:
- Make viewmymessage.com compatible with Firefox and Safari
- When receiving an MMS on an iPhone, make the link seamless so Safari can view the message easily
- Fix viewmymessage.com so if you type the horrendous MSG ID incorrectly it at least includes it for you on the error page so you don't have to go back to your phone and look
