Thanks for the quick answers but I don't think it's my free space or my mode setting. My unbranded phone gives the options: "For Picture msg" but the branded phones give the option of: "For Multimedia msg". Does that have any significance? Unbranded phone will record 30 sec, branded, 2 minutes. Just to see, I unbranded my wife's phone and now she has the same problem I have. I have WAY more space then my daughter's (branded) phone and she can record almost 2 minutes. This seems to have changed with the unbranding. Is there anything I can do to restore the longer recording time? Maybe I need to try to find the Cingular/AT&T firmware and reflash my wife's phone until I figure this one out, as she wants the longer time. Thanks for the help and still open to any suggestions.