I am in the UK, my friend is in Australia. We have no problems
texting and calling but for some reason we cannot swap picture
messages. I have a Samsung S3 and a contract with T Mobile/EE. I
am not sure what phone she has, but know that she is pay-as-you-go
with 3. I don’t believe it is a smartphone.
This is a difficult
problem to solve
because we do not
know all the information
required to see where the
process is failing. If your friend
does not use a smartphone that
will immediately rule out many
potential solutions such as
WhatsApp, which would make
swapping pictures easier,
quicker and less expensive.
Our
fi rst thought is that one of you
does not have picture messaging
enabled and we have seen in the
past that you will not always see a warning advising you of the
fact when sending fails, it simply
fails to send messages.
Also, you
mention that your friend does
not have a smartphone. Is it even
capable of sending and receiving
picture messages? Our advice
would be for each of you to
contact your providers to make
sure that picture messages can
be sent before you do anything
else, and to check the costs of
doing so across countries
because they could be extremely
expensive.
Next, try to fi nd a way
to use free apps like the aforementioned WhatsApp, even
if that does mean your friend
purchasing a budget Android
device. Potentially that could
save you both a lot of money in
the long run.
As we said, we cannot offer a full answer due to
lack of detail, and this applies to
all questions we get. Please
supply all of the detail and we
will do our best to make your
Android dreams come true…
