iphone's SMS quota ... wtf?

[brad]

Everytime I use the SMS app on my iphone, I get a stupid little pop-up which says:Your SMS mailbox is almost full. Please delete some messages.

[OK]
Except for one thing.... I have 6.96 GB of free space!And now I find out it's been silently dropping incoming text messages, even though new outgoing ones I write go into my history, which made me

Comments

[robflynn]

Other than this post, how are you liking your iPhone?

At first I was off put by the fact that I wouldn't be able to get MMS or 3G... However, My town doesn't have 3G anyway, and my phone refuses to do MMS properly already, so, it's not like I'm missing out there.

[robbat2]

I know on older phones, the SMS ARE stored on the SIM directly - which is dumb when they could be synced to the device instead, which has more space. Just has the downside of making you need to sync the device for a backup instead of being able to switch your SIM to a new phone and have all the data still.

[taral]

I'm willing to bet it's a workaround for a performance issue in the SMS app. :D

[grumpy_sysadmin]

Huh, I thought I was a fairly heavy user of SMS (mostly automated notifications from home, the day job, and the side job, but also real human beings) and I haven't seen this problem yet (and it's been my phone since two days after release).

What generates so much traffic for you?

[beausmith]

I got this message too. Seriouly WTF! I don't have 7GB of free space... but still plenty of space for SMS msgs.

I'm really looking forward to more SMS features on my iPhone. I want:
- datetime stamps for all msgs
- ability to send to multiple people
- ability to send & receive MMS
- confirmation of msgs sent

These were all features I had on my last Nokia.