Multimedia messaging, ringtones, and sounds

I have two questions actually. First is, why, when I receive a text from someone who has attached a photo to it do I NEED to go to "viewmyphotos.com" to see it. Why is it that iphone doesn't have the ability to reveive texts with photo attachments. Also, when I want to send a photo to someone else, I have to email it to them. What happens if that person doesn't have an email account?
Secondly, I am extremely frustrated at apple's inability to allow songs other than those "purchased" through itunes to be used as a ringtone for the iphone. I don't understand why, if I already have the song on my computer, whether it be from a CD or just in my music library, I have to go and "buy" it again to use it as a ringtone.
Lastly, i also am disappointed in the fact that the sounds for the text messages, new mail, sent mail and such can not be altered. The phone is beautiful, but I've only had it 4 days and I am already disappointed in the lack of personalization.

sara6,
Unfortunately it seems you suffer from, LRS. Lack of Research Syndrome. The iPhone does NOT support MMS (Multimedia Messaging) or Custom Ring tones. The iPhone has NEVER advertised that they do. When you bought the iPhone and asked a Apple/AT&T employee they would have also confirmed this for you.
The current thinking about the iTunes ring tones is you have to buy the song from Apple, to verify you did not illegally obtain a song, and then you have to pay 0.99 cents to turn it into a ring tone, that .99 cents is basically a licensing fee allowing you to use a portion of that song on a phone as a ring tone. There is a STRONG belief that this is a result of the Record Industry wanting more money for the songs they hold copyrights to.
Since you DID NOT do adequate research to find out if the phone was a good fit for you, I would advise (it being only 4 days and all) that you return the phone for a refund minus a 10-15% restocking fee and then buy a phone that fits your needs.
Good luck for your future purchases.

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Hi there,
I've jst signed up as i promised i'd backup my misses phone before she goes travelling.
I went to the nokia 7250i page and downloaded the latest pc suite.
But I cannot find a way to view or backup mms? strange! looked at every option.
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Can you help with any of these 3?? She leaves tommorow!

Thanks Sandy,
I have done that. I backed up messages but it doesn't give you a breakdown to say 156 text messages and 10 mms backed up or anything like that.
I wasn't sure that mms had backed up as they don't show in the Nokia PC Suite Messages section where you should be able to create and send text and multimedia messages. Only text messages show up there. No MMS.
Maybe I just have to forward mms to another phone.
Thought this would be easy lol.
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TEXT MESSAGE RINGTONES 3.0 UPDATE MISSING

I'm a huge fan of apple. I'm a huge fan of their products and I convert people to their products all the time.
Who here wants to see apple make one little change they should have done a while ago to the iPHONE??
This message's purpose is to create traffic towards this website link: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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One Concerned and Annoyed YET Biggest Apple Fan.

We definitely listen and that's where we go to submit your feedback but use it wisely. I don't want to imagine what would happen if that starts getting spammed. Keep in mind that most, if not all, of the new features in our updates come from the feedback our engineers receive through that link.
Handle with care.

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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
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