Wednesday, May 27, 2009

iPhone MMS (SwirlyMMS or Flutter)

When I first bought my iPhone (2G) I felt so disappointed because it cannot send MMS like my Nokia N-95.
This shows that iPhone is missing a lot of things that we are all expect from the modern now a days mobile phone. In other words in my first impression iPhone is just another "fashion" phone instead of features phone :-(

So.. how to solve this problem? Well of cause there have lots of 3rd party software out there which could offer to solve this problem like flutter for example. Erm.. I like SwirlyMMS most compare with Flutter because SwirlyMMS do support on most of Network worldwide. Currently I'm using Maxis postpaid (Malaysia Network) and SwirlyMMS is able to find the MMS setting automatically so I don't have to do manual setting on SwirlyMMS.

Since SwirlyMMS is not listed in Apt Store at the moment therefore you must download the software via Cydia. The advantage of using this software is that it give you 7days trial and if you're happy with it then you can pay a small amount of $8.00 to buy the full license and it will be unlimited usage. Cool huh? Compare with Flutter unfortunately you have to pay small amount of $0.99 but again it doesn't give option of free trial and furthermore it use a huge amount of Data/Edge connection to send the msg. Therefore I prefer to use SwirlyMMS :-).

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Disable iPhone GPRS/Data/Edge

Hi guys... wow it's been a while I didn't update this blog. It must full with dust and spider web already.. hehehe.

Alright.. This time I found out there is an alternative method how to disable data/edge connection for Iphone 2G or 3G. It is very simple and you don't have to install any program at all. Yup yup you hear me right.. No need to install any program like the previous post. It's like 1-2-3... a-b-c...Here is how to do it.

  1. Go to Setting
  2. General
  3. Network
  4. Choose the first option i.e. Cellular Data Network
  5. Key-in all the Advanced setting (APN, Username & Password) as "disable".

By doing this it will not allowed any Data connection via your network. If you surf internet via Safari.. You will only have access using Wifi. However if you leave all these blank then Iphone is able to get data connection automatically so that's how to turn "on" the data/edge connection.

Am using Iphone 2G ver 2.2 and I believe it would be the same for Iphone 3G.