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MMS is horrendous and the picture quality is poor, plus you can't view it off of one's mobile.
by antihero 13y ago
MMS is horrendous and the picture quality is poor, plus you can't view it off of one's mobile.
- Bud 13y agoHuh? MMS itself is completely irrelevant to the quality of the photo you send over it. If your phone's camera is good, the photo quality will be good also.
- jdminhbg 13y agoI wouldn't say it's completely irrelevant -- MMSes are heavily compressed by every phone OS I've ever used. Wikipedia lists a "recommended limit" of 300 kB[1], and Verizon's developer site lists a hard limit of 1.2 MB[2]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service [2]: http://developer.verizon.com/content/vdc/en/verizon-tools-apis/verizon_apis/network-api/faqs/faq-multimedia-messaging-system-mms.html http://developer.verizon.com/content/vdc/en/verizon-tools-ap...
- mcb3k 13y agoAccording to Wikipedia[1], "300 kB is the current recommended size used by networks due to some limitations on the WAP gateway side". While that is listed as "Citation Needed", other links from the the same search query lists sizes varying from 600KB to 1.2MB. A quick look at the files sizes at the images I've taken shows that most of my images are over 1000KB. So, there is some kind of re-sizing that needs to occur over SMS. Instagram and other similar services don't necessarily require such re-sizing, or possibly get around it by having you crop the image yourself, so the relative quality of the remaining portion remains higher quality as opposed to shrinking the entire image to fit the size restrictions. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service#Challenges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service#Ch...