your gonna tell me it's hardware issue better get your story straight apple i smell money
I honestly believe that the original iPhones hardware could be used to receive MMS under the right circumstances. It's not impossible.
That said, I speculate that Apple may have decided on a specific implementation of MMS handling, and for whatever reason, that implementation is specific to 3G.
I've never seen any of the European iTunes App Stores, so I don't know for sure.so how do they explain the mms apps in the european itunes appstore in portugal and spain
However, the first generation iPhone was never sold in those two countries - they could easily all be based on the assumption that only 3G iPhones would use the apps.
Alternatively, it may be that those apps use a different implementation of MMS than the one that Apple has chosen. See my speculation above.