iPhone Picture Messaging

March 2nd, 2009 in Tutorial, iPhone No Comments

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Sending Picture Messages with the iPhone

It is amazing that with all of this technology and all of the advancements with cell phones over the past few years that the iPhone still does not have the capability to send picture messages. That is until now. The way it works is most mobile carriers offer free email to SMS/MMS gateways which forward email messages to phones. Therefore when you send an email from your iPhone to an email address specifically related to the recipients phone the email will be displayed on their phone as a picture or text message.

So how do you figure out what email corresponds to each phone? All you need to know is the person's cell phone number and carrier they are on. From here you will set up an email to be sent to [10-digit phone number]@[carrier gateway address]. Please refer to the table below for a listing major US carriers free email to SMS/MMS gateways.

Carrier	Corresponding Email
Alltel	1234567890@message.alltel.com
AT&T (formerly Cingular)	1234567890@txt.att.net 1234567890@mms.att.net (MMS) 1234567890@cingularme.com
Boost Mobile	1234567890@myboostmobile.com
Nextel (now Sprint Nextel)	1234567890@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)	1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com 1234567890@pm.sprint.com (MMS)
T-Mobile	1234567890@tmomail.net
US Cellular	1234567890email.uscc.net (SMS) 1234567890@mms.uscc.net (MMS)
Verizon	1234567890@vtext.com 1234567890@vzwpix.com (MMS)
Virgin Mobile USA	1234567890@vmobl.com

For international and smaller US gateways please refer to:

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