An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by gallamine on Friday January 04, 2013 @08:33AM (#5007491)

Do you find you have problems with MMS and Google Voice? Last I checked, it was unsupported and text messages with pictures or video just went to /dev/null without any notifications to either party. That was a no-go for me.

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by dannyr on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:54AM (#5007829)

My main # now is Google Voice. For the past 4 years, there was just 2 instances that I needed MMS.

What's frustrating though is the inability of Google Voice to receive SMS from short codes. Craigslist and Paypal also don't verify accounts with a Google Voice number.

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by FireBeyond on Friday January 04, 2013 @12:49PM (#5008756)

Perhaps so, but you can't deny that for wider adoption, Google Voice needs to do something about both Short Codes and MMS. Lack of MMS is a dealbreaker for a lot of people, and "text it to my email address", as I explain to friends, is like a paradigm shifting without a clutch (with apologies to Dilbert).

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by fossuser on Friday January 04, 2013 @11:42AM (#5008384)

Yeah that short code thing sucks - still have to use my non google voice number for that.

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by fossuser on Friday January 04, 2013 @11:41AM (#5008379)

MMS isn't supported and still silently fails (which is annoying). I just tell people to 'text my email addresss' which works, or to use something else (like facebook/snapchat).

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by parfe on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:34PM (#5008978)

If someone attempts to send your Google voice number an MMS you will receive a notification about the message and the image will be sent to your email address.

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-steps-towa...

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by bhaile on Friday January 04, 2013 @02:10PM (#5009175)

Only if the MMS is from a Sprint customer. "Google Voice users are now able to receive pictures and other multimedia messages from Sprint subscribers."

When I get MMS from AT&T or Verizon, then I don't get anything but from Sprint customers, I get the notification and its in my gmail account right away. Probably due to the integration with Sprint and Google Voice. http://www.google.com/googlevoice/sprint/.

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by parfe on Friday January 04, 2013 @03:02PM (#5009517)

I've received MMS from a MetroPCS user. I can't find an updated list of providers that google voice supports. The blog post announcing sprint mms support was in October 2011.

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by inklesspen on Saturday January 05, 2013 @02:47PM (#5013762)

MetroPCS uses the Sprint network.

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Re:An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4 by drivebyacct2 on Friday January 04, 2013 @10:39PM (#5011445)

I'm glad that my Google Voice number doesn't accept MMS. What a silly invention. If you must use MMS, my email address works more than fine.

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