Its not often I feel the need to let off steam and have a rant but today I have really lost patience.
Picture messaging
– introduced a few years ago supposed to be the new way of doing text messaging – easy to use and quite useful. In the 7 years I have had a compatible phone I have never got it to work and today I had an important photo I wanted to send to a family member and once again
picture messaging
has failed to deliver.
Excuses made over the years as follows:
By the phone: ‘Use alternative account’, ‘POP2 account?’ ‘message pending’ or the phone locks up.
By the provider: ‘Your picture messaging was turned off’, ‘your account has been updated’, ‘your picture messaging was locked’. Each useless excuse costs me 20+ minutes time and 25p.
When someone sent me a supposed picture message my phone still showed nothing and instructed me to download the photo using a link. That did not work either.
To add insult the phones offer choice of adding video, sounds or even effects. No point in even thinking of trying those…
I asked around and of a sample group of 7 long term mobile phone users not one has ever managed to send or has received a picture message. No-one knew the cost of using this service either – may be 15p, 50p or even a quid – who knows?
I feel better for that but the important photo I tried to send today once again wasted my time and made me rant. I would call T-Mobile but there would go another 25p and another 20+ minutes of my life.
Picture message success stories and failures welcome.
Picture messaging
– introduced a few years ago supposed to be the new way of doing text messaging – easy to use and quite useful. In the 7 years I have had a compatible phone I have never got it to work and today I had an important photo I wanted to send to a family member and once again
picture messaging
has failed to deliver.Excuses made over the years as follows:
By the phone: ‘Use alternative account’, ‘POP2 account?’ ‘message pending’ or the phone locks up.
By the provider: ‘Your picture messaging was turned off’, ‘your account has been updated’, ‘your picture messaging was locked’. Each useless excuse costs me 20+ minutes time and 25p.
When someone sent me a supposed picture message my phone still showed nothing and instructed me to download the photo using a link. That did not work either.
To add insult the phones offer choice of adding video, sounds or even effects. No point in even thinking of trying those…
I asked around and of a sample group of 7 long term mobile phone users not one has ever managed to send or has received a picture message. No-one knew the cost of using this service either – may be 15p, 50p or even a quid – who knows?
I feel better for that but the important photo I tried to send today once again wasted my time and made me rant. I would call T-Mobile but there would go another 25p and another 20+ minutes of my life.
Picture message success stories and failures welcome.