The Unofficial Speak Out Wireless Canada Consumer Page - Topic: Will iOS5 screw up SMS on Speakout?

mechman600 on Will iOS5 screw up SMS on Speakout?

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:28:16 -0700

SMS works fine with IOS 5. The integrated iMessage does not work unless you have an active Wi-Fi connection. Your phone can be set up to send an SMS if the iMessage send fails.

chimpanzee on Will iOS5 screw up SMS on Speakout?

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:50:57 -0700

If iMessage is using Apple's server as the relay(i.e. similiar to XMPP via BOSH or in layman XMPP over HTTPS), it is possible that it would work. Of course that all depends on how it is implemented.

andreww on Will iOS5 screw up SMS on Speakout?

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:20:33 -0700

Apple announced details of their upcoming iOS5 earlier this week. One of the new, more promising features, iMessage, is very similar to BBM in function. As most proprietary features like Facetime and Notifications don't work over the Speakout proxy, I have very little hope that iMessage will either. The problem is that iMessage is transparant and works from the built in Message app. If you contact is detected as an iPhone user, your message is sent via iMessage, if not, the message goes SMS. I can only hope that the app will still be able to send SMS to another iPhone without having to wait for an iMessage delivery to fail first.