I ended up buying an iphone clone off ebay. Its called the M88 or MiPhone and it’s running windows mobile 6. It probably has dozens of other names too as most things in China are made exactly the same, but by different companies and under different names.
I’m fond of the iphone, but I’m reluctant to pay the $40 a month data plan. On top of that, I’m planning on doing a fair bit of traveling in the future and I needed something that was unlocked and was capable of different bands, so I settled on the M88. I’ll skip a review and post how to get AT&T / Cingular MMS or multimedia messaging on the M88.
1. Locate the Arcsoft mms composer program. I found it by googling different keywords. I ended up finding version 5.0.31.7 for free.
2. Install the program to the phone (not the memory card)
3. Restart the phone
4. Open Messaging. You will notice that it now says SMS / MMS where it used to read SMS
5. Click SMS /MMS and then the menu in the bottom right.
6. Go into MMS Options. Under “Servers”, delete the default settings and create a new one. The name is not important and I named mine AT&T MMS
7. Enter the following values:
Server name: AT&T MMS, Gateway: wireless.cingular.com, Port number 80, Server address http://mmsc.cingular.com, Connect via *This is could be different, check step 9, Send limit 200k, Wap version 2.0 Save and exit
8. Go into settings and then connections
9. I only have one network which by default is called My Work Network. Go into manage existing connections and click new.
Name MMS, Modem leave blank, access point name: wap.cingular, user name password and domain are all blank. Click advanced. Check “use server-assigned IP” and “use IP header compression” Finish
10. Thats it! You should now have MMS for Att working on your Miphone! Actually, my directions will probably help anyone get MMS on a phone running windows mobile. Any questions? You should be able to ask below.
