Several reports are confirming AT&T is gearing up to provide MMS support for iPhone owners in September. The much-anticipated feature was actually promised for summer 2009, but at least the carrier is delivering. Apple, for its part, introduced MMS support across its iPhone 3G and 3GS devices, but still has to wait for AT&T to give the green light to the service on the iPhone.
Earlier this year, in March to be more precise, Apple announced iPhone OS 3.0, an update to its mobile operating system used by both the iPhone, and the iPod touch. Although contemporary smartphones already shared abilities like cut, copy & paste, MMS, tethering, etc., Apple only introduced these abilities with a late revision of its iPhone OS, while some of these highly anticipated features still cannot be put to use.
MMS is one of those features. First-generation iPhone owners can’t, and will (probably) never send or receive an MMS via legal means provided by a mobile services operator, as MMS is not supported on this particular iPhone model. Apple explicitly stated that only the 3G version of the device (and the 3GS implicitly) would support multimedia messaging. Then came AT&T and said “later this summer,” a statement Apple itself cited.
For fans of the expression “better late than never,” there’s apparently some good news to be had. According to people familiar with AT&T’s plans, the carrier will start supporting the popular multimedia messaging service beginning next month. A report over at funkyspacemonkey.com (German site) reveals that, two weeks ago, an AT&T insider emailed the website with news that the carrier was planning to enable MMS in tandem with the release of an iPhone OS 3.1. A specific date was not provided, while the report remains to be confirmed.
A poster over at the Modmyi forums has published a hilarious video in regards to the news, which we encourage you to view below.
holy crap! it would be so nice to be able to finally get pictures on the iPhones. Srsly. and not having to tell people hey can u email that to me please? just a pain in the butt to have to tell peoplel that...and all the money i spent on the new iPhone. finally MMS!! WOOOHOO!!!*dances around*
In all honesty, they promised it for the summer. I know everyone thinks of summer as June/July/August but summer doesn't actually end until September 20th or 21st (I can't remember) anyway. So on a technicality based on the true dates of the seasons and not what most people think of summer, Apple/AT&T might just hold true to their promise.
Comment #4 by: crandizzle23 on 28 Aug 2009, 03:37 GMT
well i just downloaded the new soft ware and no mms ? BUT NO WORRIES !I had my iphone for about a week now and its the real deal other then the no picture sending its the best phone out there ..just my opinion ..
Comment #5 by: Leo mazur on 28 Aug 2009, 21:15 GMT
The iphone without Tethering or MMS is a joke. MMS? my first Cingular phone (4 years ago) was capable of that. i love my Iphone but it was too expensive to exclude such ancient features....
I guess late is better then never, but dont you think ATT kind of dropped the ball on this one. What phone in the past 3 years dosn't have MMS? Not very many, epecial any phone made in the last 3 years that cost over 200 bucks. I think this feature should have been there from the start, its pretty basic, I dont understand the hold up....
