Technically speaking, no phone can send pictures through text messages. Short message service (SMS), the standard for sending text messages, supports up to 160 characters of text only. To send pictures, videos and audio files phones use a different service based on SMS and called multimedia message service (MMS). The iPhone can send pictures through MMS, through email and through third-party apps that add functionality for other protocols including FTP, WebDAV and Bonjour. Writer Bio
