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Sprint Discontinuing Picture Mail Web Site April 30

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End of an era...

EliteABombAZ

Mar 27, 2012, 8:49 AM
Remember my first camera phone was from Sprint. Back then... the whole service regarding pictures was called "Picture Mail." Sprint did not even have standard MMS. Anytime you received a picture, you received a text message with a link to a WAP site hosting your pic.

Later on... when Sprint phones had "Picturemail" clients installed on phones that would automatically download the picture to your phone. and notify you. The client would display the pic... no WAP site needed. It was trying to mimic the behavior of MMS... except they still kept the picture stored online. If you did not have a data connection where you were at a given moment, you could not view previously received pics in your Picturemail inbox.

I think with modern smartpho...
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Jayshmay

Mar 27, 2012, 10:15 AM
Thank you for the "This day in mobile tech history" memory lane!
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bluecoyote

Mar 27, 2012, 10:30 AM
Sprint Picture mail was truly great. I loved the group commenting, too- it was like an early Instagram. They really 'got it' back then.

What a shame they got derailed with the Nextel merger and started shifting all of their attention to "Sprint TV."
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pfs2009

Mar 27, 2012, 4:24 PM
Well at least with Android you have Google+ to automatically back up your pictures and videos.
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