Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Why T-Mobile picture messages are resized

Found an explanation for why TMobile messes with your picture messages:



http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1064299&highlight=prepaid



So the problem is that T-Mobile is doing this intentionally in their MMS gateway. There are a couple of hacks to get around this, but they are non-trivial.



There's a slight difference between MMS (multimedia phone messages) and emails, which is why sending a picture as an "email" gives different results.