AT&T Announces iPhone MMS Launch Date: September 25

[iphones4evry1]

Im with you. I've got some pictures of my cat that EVERYONE needs to see. About 20 times. Each.

LMAO!

Anyone else like how AT&T used a First GEN iphone in their picture to announce the MMS update on "3g and 3gs"


HAHA.. so funny

That is because if you read the fine print, it says MMS will only be enabled for people with a first gen iPhone.

 

[Gix1k]

Question is....will it be a carrier update or 3.1? Also, for all of us that have screwed with carrier file 5.0, will this affect us since we have been screwing with the settings for months.

 

[Scottsdale]

so MMS is only available on the iPhone 3G and 3GS... yet AT&T publicise this with a shot of the iPhone 2G? Well done

Nice catch.

FU AT&T!!!

The very day Verizon gets the iPhone my AT&T account will be closed! We have all been jerked around way too much.

What about tethering? Still available on their crap phones but not iPhone!

FU AT&T!!!!!

 

[Lancetx]

Now I can party like it's 1999! Who cares about sending pictures by email, now AT&T can charge me to do it!

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Unspoken Demise]

LMAO!

I think im going to make a 30 second long flip book through MMSs to all of my friends of my cat chasing a laser pointer.

 

[jazz1]

Rather have Tethering

MMS, okay nice to have. But tethering would be really useful. Hell, if MMS was going to bring the network down I suppose tethering would nuke it.

 

[Full of Win]

[sarcastic applause]Bravo! Bravo![/sarcastic applause]

Geez, my moms 2004 LG free flip phone (with Cingular branding) has this.

 

[Vaphoron]

Ok wonderful, now where is my tethering?

 

[Dmac77]

Why not the 2G iphone?!

Uh lik OMFGGGGGG, Don'tchaaa no!? Cuz lik Steve n his minions said "bite us 1g iPhone uzas."

I can't wait for the pictures of people making out in he hallways that get sent out to entire address books MMS must die!

Don

 

[shiseiryu1]

I agree

Im with you. I've got some pictures of my cat that EVERYONE needs to see. About 20 times. Each.

I totally agree...it's time to make AT&T EARN all those fees that they've been collecting from us for months.

Prediction: Article on Macrumors that day reporting that iPhone MMS usage brings AT&T network to its knees. lol.

 

[jameskk]

so basically the crap they told us back in June about having to manually go through all accounts and enable MMS was BS!!!!! I knew it!!!

 

[bensen]

as announced in the AT&T ad on august 26th

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD4ThSJxslw

 

[WannaGoMac]

What is the big deal about MMS?

I email photos all the time and they look great. MMS is just low quality images. Why does everyone have their panties in a bunch over this ancient functionality that is out of date by 4 years?

 

[Poll Smoker]

uuuh, because it's too fuggin slow.

Ever notice how people who start their posts with uuh/umm have no idea what they're talking about?

 

[Unspoken Demise]

I totally agree...it's time to make AT&T EARN all those fees that they've been collecting from us for months.

Prediction: Article on Macrumors that day reporting that iPhone MMS usage brings AT&T network to its knees. lol.

I've got an unlimited texting plan. And Im going to use them ALL.

 

[BornAgainMac]

I hope their network can handle the volume. One iPhone user will send a lot more of these MMS messages than a person using a regular phone.

 

[GoCubsGo]

I love it when a company that does it's job is suddenly big news and a great sigh of relief is heard worldwide.

Wait, worldwide? No sorry, it was just the US that suffered from carrier incompetence!

 

[john32son]

Apple went to bed with the DEVIL!!!!

 

[asb396]

Now the class action suit against AT&T has some verity as summer ends September 22.*This is false advertising at it's best.

 

[agkm800]

Most people thought 'late summer' would be around 8/25 not 9/25.

AT&T has failed completely.

 

[QCassidy352]

Ugh. Not only do I not want MMS, I'm actually dreading this because I fear what it will do to AT&T's already pathetic 3G speeds (getting under 400 kbps in downtown Boston). I know they get a ton of crap for not having MMS, but network speed is about 100x more important.

 

[STEVESKI07]

Question is....will it be a carrier update or 3.1? Also, for all of us that have screwed with carrier file 5.0, will this affect us since we have been screwing with the settings for months.

I am 100% certain that we will find out when it is released. As far as before then, it doesn't matter because it doesn't affect you yet.

 

[-aggie-]

Prediction:

For those currently not having MMS in the U.S., MMS on September 25.

For those currently having MMS in the U.S., "No MMS for you, next!" on September 25.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Ugh. Not only do I not want MMs, I'm actually dreading this because I fear what it will do to AT&T's already pathetic 3G speeds (getting under 400 kbps in downtown Boston). I know they get a ton of crap for not having MMS, but network speed is about 100x more important.

I want MMs. FWIW, peanut.

I hope their network can handle the volume. One iPhone user will send a lot more of these MMS messages than a person using a regular phone.

How do you figure? I tend to send more e-mails with photos than I ever sent MMSs on any phone. '

 

[nutmac]

uuuh, because it's too fuggin slow.

That's actually not the reason. Remember, even the cheapest crappy phone was able to do MMS for years, long before 3G. It has to do with the fact that (1) sending messaging on iPhone is not a full background process, (2) earlier iPhone users get "free" 200 messages and AT&T probably doesn't want those 200 to be MMS, and (3) Apple wants earlier iPhone users to upgrade.

At the very least, earlier iPhones should be capable of receiving MMS, instead of stupid SMS that opens AT&T MMS viewer website.