On Oct 6, 2014, at 3:49 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 03 Oct 2014, at 23:33 , Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> A friend of mine has an iPhone 5S. Recently someone with a Galaxy S5 with a
>> 16MP camera sent him an image to his iPhone via text message, but got an
>> error message back saying that the recipient (the iPhone) is not able to
>> receive such large pictures. Is this a fault of the carrier, the iPhone, the
>> Galaxy, Apple’s texting system, … ?
>
> Verizon has a 1.2MB limit on MMS messages.
>
> AT&T has a maximum size of 600KB, but may drop it to 300KB at any time
> without notice. AT&T will compress/alter the image to get it to the desired
> size.
>
> T-Mobile appears to have a limit at 1MB.
>
> The recommended maximum is 300KB.
>
> Yes, that is kilobytes.
And remember, iPhone -> iPhone messages often get to skip this because
they are not going though MMS but get re-routed though Apple’s servers as
TCP/IP traffic. So despite taking up the same airwaves this is billed much less
expensively and Apple provides it for free without touching your SMS billing.
So for that case it might go though in full quality.
Of course, this is not an option for the Galaxy S5 -> iPhone route, and
I am not aware of a Samsung -> Samsung option that uses the same sort of bypass.
—
Karl Kuehn
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