AT&T Launches iPhone MMS September 25

@OCEntertainment: I cant wait to see whats gonna happen when there exclusive contract is up on the iPhone cause i know damn well im jump'n ship. Its gonna be a good thing for them too cause there network will get relief and all there loyal custies who stay will reap the relief. PHUKEN AT&T YOU SUCK!...........DEBO!

(off to the side tuck'n my chain)

@VihoHaetism: Yeah, RTFA. It's AT&T's fault, not Apple's. If you're gonna point a finger, point it in the right direction.

cloudnine

@fueled by sound: Time to upgrade! :D

cloudnine

@bobman1235: You have an iPhone without a data plan? WTF? Why on God's green earth did you buy an iPhone?

I can't imagine that "a large number of people" fall into that category.

AmphetamineCrown

thank you AT&T for doing your best to give us the "newest" features that are only 20yrs old.

Well that took long enough... haha. Better late than never right?

BTW - Does iPhone have real push email yet?
I sold my 3G for a BB Bold and haven't been keeping up with the iPhone scene lately. :)

@OMG! Ponies!: Self promotion FTW?

@OMG! Ponies!: Really? AT&T's ETF is pro-rated, starting at $175 and decreasing by $5/mo. Given that the subsidy in effect on the iPhone is substantially more than $175, it doesn't seem that lopsided. B'sides, they had a 30 day return policy w/no ETF.

AmphetamineCrown

Spetember 25th!?
Since when did September become part of Summer in this world? Since your LITTLE NETWORK isn't ready, can we please bring this phone to other NETWORKS that can handle MMS?
Iphone is just a bitter sweet device to use...

hcho3

@appletoad: Yeah, same here. It rocks being able to MMS without using Swirly.

@Radioheadonist: Amen.

cloudnine

@rmcski21: It's the same price as regular text messages. It all depends on what you plan allows. But unless you have an unlimited text plan, it's going to cost you if you go over your limit.

I've been MMS'ing on my iPhone with T-Mobile for awhile now.

The comments after posts like this are so predictable!
Ready, set, sound off!

F Apple!
F AT&T!
F Everybody who says different!
Verizon "could" do it better (even though there is no data to support it)!
oh, and
F AT&T!
----------------------------------------...-">----------------------------------------...
moment of pause...
Q: So, how do you like your iPhone?
A: I LOVE my iPhone!!!
Q: Would you buy one again?
A: HELL YES I WOULD!!!

OK, continue.....
----------------------------------------...
AT&T Sucks!
Apple sucks!
F AT&T!

OK, got it.

Radioheadonist

Wow, AT&T seem to suck pretty bad. Here in Sweden we've been enjoying MMS since iPhone OS 3.0 was released.

*Smug grin*

@OMG! Ponies!: Except that a large number of people don't have mobile email so MMS is still useful. At the very least it's useful to be able to RECEIVE it.

And AT&T has said it will be free (well, included with SMS).... as did this very article that you are commenting on.

bobman1235

@quidsquid: Up to June of 2009 it was Apple's fault as the phone didn't support it. The past couple of months it has been AT&T's fault. Lets not forget who really had us waiting.

AT&T, guys. People already say your network is crappy enough. And maybe it's true, but dangit, could you guys stop saying, at every dang turn, that such-and-such feature is gonna bring down your network? I mean, video streaming, VoIP? Tethering? MMS?! What's going on guys?

I'm not gonna trivialize the difficulty of building a high-speed mobile network. I know it's mad difficult (as I'm sure UnderLoK would be more than happy to come attest).

But man, alive, when your customers say you suck, and you're all like, "Man, I know. I mean, I'm pretty sure picture messaging is gonna drop our whole dang network!"...

....You know how girls aren't attracted to guys who are always putting themselves down? Yeah, like that.

@OMG! Ponies!: Nope, they've said that anyone with a messaging plan will have it included. So while it's not totally free, per se, it's free with a messaging plan.

It's about damned time. I hate you, AT&T, you ruin everything good about this device!

ZombieFlanders

Finally I can do some appropriate Sexting!

LaVacheQuiRit

@chanmoss: Wow that was totally ignorant and uncalled for. I've been happily using MMS on my iPhone up here in Canada since day 1.... well day 1 of 3.0... Direct your anger at your shitty cell carrier.

TripZ

@xhedgehogx: really? you need a FAN account. I have 450 min unlimited SMS and iphone data and my bill is $81 a month.

@VihoHaetism: Actually it's AT&T's fault, not Apple's.... I have a 3GS on Rogers in Canada and we've been in 2009 using MMS since June.

TripZ

@VihoHaetism: I think you mean 2006. Or was it 2005 that MMS started?

Uh.. Autumnal equinox is Sept 22. That makes AT&T out to be big fat liars about having it at the end of Summer (; Not that it's very shocking.

ShadowBottle

@JustineDerro: Really? I've got a contract with a nasty ETF that says otherwise.

Definitely had MMS for ages already on O2. :)

mms doesn't work, but the option shows up for me. Tethering works just fine.

Ummm, I've moved on from MMS. I just email pictures to people now.

Besides, I'm sure that the MMS will be an add-on so that AT&T can get you to shell out more money.

@aja175: its free.

rmcski21

And another middle finger to the 1st gen iPhone users! Thanks!

fueled by sound

@PaintTheSkyGrey: Wouldn't surprise me. I got the lowest on everything, 450 minutes, 200 texts, and its still over $100 a month after taxes. My dad pays less than that for a family plan of 4 people with AT&T.

xhedgehogx

@chanmoss: i seem to recall this being an AT&T issue and not an Apple issue. If it was Apple's fault then it would not have already launched in other countries.

@PaintTheSkyGrey:
Nope. If you have unlimited messaging you have been paying for unlimited MMS this whole time, which pisses me off even more.

sooo... how much is it? That also explains the new lines on the online account. It doesn't just say data anymore.

@chanmoss: Funny how the one thing you have to say is completely irrelevant, and erroneous.

Justin Reich

Welcome to 2009 apple.....

VihoHaetism

@chanmoss: its not apples fault, they enabled MMS on the iphone when 3.0 came out, you should be saying Fuck you AT&T for waiting a long time

Delorean2006

Ok, so this is what I read:

blah blah
September 25
Excuses excuses
excuses excuses

excuses

thanks for letting us rape you please don't sue

lmao, how appropriate! Way to go, ATT...

WOW. About fucking time.

Let me guess, it's gonna be an extra $20/month to enable "MMS features."

As an iphone user, I have to say, welcome to 2003!!! YAY!

yeah, i got something to say, fuck you apple

@Gun Metal Gray: No, At&t had the billions that apple wanted.

lnlogauge

i just wish there was flash now, make my iPhone browsing experience complete!!

mricyfire

AT&T is not ready for MMS traffic. XD

Ogami

@Derek De Vine: I asked same. Seems its either Apple wants us to buy a new phone or AT&T wants us to upgrade our plan. Somebody wants mo money.

It took LONG ENOUGH... Ridiculously long WTF by this time somebody should slap somebody at ATT, just a smack right in the face and call them a fucking Idiot.

cartagenero

I live in Uruguay, South America, and I have been able to MMS since the day 3.0 came out.

what the hell. i want mms on my iphone 2g

tennisman120

Yaaay, iPhones are finally coming to the 20th century on my B-Day. Too bad I sold my iPhone for a good phone!

Why can't my Original iPhone handle MMS??? Anyone know why?

@OCEntertainment:

well, the reason it's so fast is because they don't offer anything

twitzgall

@Dr. Wedge: They don't refuse to overhaul it; it's being overhauled to LTE. What they refuse to do is take a hit in short-term profitability by accelerating the roll-out. They're spending $18 billion on network this year alone, and that still won't bring LTE any sooner than 2011. If they increased infrastructure spending to match Verizon's projected LTE schedule, they'd see a drop in profitability next year and a (short-sighted) shareholder revolt.

@lnlogauge: Apple did go to and was rejected by other carriers. At&t was the only one to accept their proposal.

The AT&T announcement uses the first gen iPhone, which isn't MMS compatible. Is Microsoft running their marketing department?

TheseGoTo11

@AkkiRonin:

Yes: Technically, they want you to buy a new iPhone.

@twitzgall: oops edited above

twitzgall

@Kiamat: We can.

See under me where it says I edited?

TasteTheFlava

Granted, the 25th is after the "end of summer." However, the "end of summer" is actually September 22....so not TOO bad.

twitzgall

@lnlogauge: You shouldn't have to jailbreak a phone to send MMS.

DustyButtâ„¢

@BergenCountyJC: Maybe they meant late FOR summer?

aquajaws

@brandeis1:

aquajaws

First of all, I absolutely DESPISE AT&T. Yet in my two person family there are 2 iPhones, UVerse, POTS, and so on. When I have issues it takes a miracle to reach a competent person. Funny thing is, For me the GSM/EDGE/3G networks have yet to fail or give me issues. uVerse has been down once in 2.5 years during an upgrade and it was degraded service, not a total loss. So from that perspective AT&T is fine. Then there is their bank mentality. Banks you say? Yep just like apps, there is a fee for that.

dfwguy

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Fractal the Meek

@Woz: one too few o's there... :)

@Kiamat: However you spell it, that's something I'm glad to hear. Works pretty well now with the added carrier bundle off that one website, but I wouldn't mind knowing I'm not stomping all over the fine print.

@Petey-ed: I wish I had a star, so I could promote your comment.

@AmphetamineCrown: So that would mean your IQ is now only 75 points below the average iPhone owner?

dfwguy

@dionicios: That doesn't sound right. You should consider seeing someone about you *cough* problem.

@Inception: Why are you not from the best country in the world? OH YEAH. SUCK IT.

@Woz: One to many T's in there.

Woz

Once the iPhone is open to a carrier other than ATT&T, I predict a huge exodus of subscribers for them.

Woz

I don't see what the big deal is? I've been able to send pictures on my iPhone via e-mail, Facebook, flickr, and whatever else since the old EDGE iPhone.

Do my friends really need to get instantaneously annoyed now?

NewSc2

@JessicaAiPhone: BAN HAMMER! You should be automatically banned for even saying interactiveiphone.com anymore....seriously.

You plug that stupid website all the time, and besides it never works. You must be running it on edge or something.

@Kiamat: IRT *tethering*...

Damn we need to be able to edit comments.

Kiamat

IRT: According to this NYT article, looks like when tethering does show up it won't have a bandwidth cap.
"It is also postponing "tethering," which allows the iPhone to share its Internet connection with a computer, a standard feature on many rival smartphones. AT&T says it has no intention of capping how much data iPhone owners use."
[www.nytimes.com]

Kiamat

Let's not forget they are charging an arm and a leg for SMS, so I wouldn't call it "free". Email ftw. Sheeesh.

Akibake-

bout time

Steven Tillman

@Derek De Vine: Probably can, just want to force you to upgrade. Sorry brother.

Brett Benedict

@dionicios: Why? 3G has nothing to do with the text service.

Brett Benedict

@lnlogauge: Is massive amounts of money really beyond you?

Brett Benedict

@drewheyman: If your going to call someone out on being wrong, at least be right. At&t is not CDMA. verizon and sprint are, which is why an iphone won't work for them.

There's no excuse why MMS isn't enabled. Every other at&t phone has it, and I know its crazy...but the network hasn't died yet! well completely at least....

lnlogauge

@AmphetamineCrown: I think what bobman meant was there are a lot of people out there not using a smart phone with email, so at the very least it's nice to be able to receive MMSs from them w/o having to use that crappy ATT login site thingy.

eucrow

@hcho3: Summer ends Sept 21. That means September is 21/30 or 70% summer. Do you understand how to use a calendar?

drewheyman

reason #571 to jailbreak an iphone. Ive been using MMS on my 2g thanks to cydia. Why apple feels the need to get in bed with at&t and screw people over is beyond me

lnlogauge

HSPDA network!!! has every one forgot about their promise!!!! 7mbs down GO GO GO.

@Dr. Wedge: Dude, that is old an inaccurate. The iphone & iphone 3G run on CDMA2000, which is the radio frequency part of CDMA (ie, it uses the best of old school CDMA and improves on it), and not on TDMA. Old school GSM still uses TDMA, but unless you have an old phone (original iPhone), you most likely don't use it.

drewheyman

@Dr. Wedge: They killed off their TDMA network years ago. The AT&T network is the same GSM network that was once Cingular. Yes, GSM is based on TDMA, but it's a much more robust standard. It's also the one true global standard.

It's ridiculous that we had to wait this long for something I could get on my piece of shit razer. . .

MMS? MMS? MMS!??!?! Why dont you just fix the damn text service before you offer new features your damn network cant handle?!?!? I cant even send a damn text on my damn iphone without turning off damn 3G. Damn.Damn.Damn.

dionicios

Didn't they say that the delay in MMS had nothing to do with the quality of their network? Now they say, "Oh yeah, it was the network."

Whatever...I'm just glad to finally be getting it.

Finally, I have been testing out the MMS on the [interactiveiphone.com] but I really want to try it out on my own iPhone.

I really hate AT&T!

JessicaAiPhone

Is there any technical reason they are leaving first gen phones out? I'm figuring its just that my data plan is cheaper and so they figure I don't deserve yet another data intensive feature.

What, didn't you americans have MMS until now? Why? And why no tethering? :o we got that the day 3.0 came...

Inception

I still don't understand why the Original iPhone can't handle MMS, does anyone know why?

@Septhinox: With a network run by AT&T, that is hard.

about damn time.
att still sucks my balls.
as for tethering i dont care ... hack attack for tethering yo.

radambomb

Believe me, I'm not an advocate of AT&T. I accept it 'cause I like my iPhone (and it works perfectly with my Mac). However, you've gotta remember what their network is built on; TDMA. It's an old network using an old technology that can't currently support all the normal traffic, let alone the massive increase in data traffic that they've seen since they've brought on the iPhone. They keep adding to it and refuse to overhaul it. It's important to understand how the network works to understand what a mammoth thing it is for AT&T to bandaid it and beef it up for the expected surge in MMS traffic/ The problem is that while GSM (a hybrid of TDMA) can support the technology, their hardware can't. Here's a blog that wraps it up: [flyingtomatodesign.com]

Translation:
O shit!!! This exclusive rights to the Iphone thing we worked out a few years back went WAY better than we could have expected!!! We spent all our money on the rights so lets just take the next 5 years 'preparing' our network to actually handle the phone.

justsomereportingguy

Did anybody notice that originally, the ATT messaging plan was "unlimited text, pictures and video" for the iPhone even though the iPhone could only send txt? I remember having a very interesting discussion with some of the mobility supervisors at ATT about this, telling them that it was false advertising. they told me "well, the service is available, your handset just does not support it, but it is still available to you"

Stew Smith

@Greg Lloyd: Since 2006, wow, a year before iphone even came out. Maybe 2008?

@350z-racer: if you had a 3g, you had push. It came out with 2.0 using exchange

Now THAT was an appropriate comment, nicely done.

OsbornCabaret

I don't get how 02 in the UK has MMS and tethering as we speak but AT&T havent even started. The mind boggles!

george9807

@OCEntertainment: I just enjoy the fact that every other phone on the AT&T network can mms, AND they sell 3G modems and Laptop cards so it is not like the network has never seen this traffic. plus they just introduced a visual voicemail system for the BB about a week ago not like that is gonna take any toll on the network at all right? hopefully the FCC will rule that the iPhone cant be exclusive and can be put on other networks.

Stew Smith

Not summer?

You tell that to Southern California. >>

I'm glad AT&T isn't supporting tethering yet. Then less people have it, so they're not hogging data and my speeds can stay around 2Mbps, and I can tether for free thanks to that bensen guy providing the profile.

I would like AT&T to officially support MMS though. I got the 5.0 carrier file, but I can only send MMS in certain places. I can't at home, but I can at work. I want it everywhere.

@Eruanno: With a country of 3 people, that's not hard.

Septhinox

yea thank you Apple... old iPhones can MMS perfectly fine. Thank goodness for jailbreak!

@Chroma3000: Bwhahahahahaha.. nice one

Stew Smith

@AmphetamineCrown: I mean what I said: the phone is great but AT&T's crappy, unreliable signal, and weak network are what ruin the experience!

ZombieFlanders

@AmphetamineCrown: Thanks, my bad.

Finally I can text pictures. Yay! Hey, wasn't I able to do that on my nextel like 10 years ago.

rick.rick

@bobman1235: Look, my main point is that MMS is kind of going the way of the dodo. Most of the people that I do forward crazy shit to have smartphones or are plunked in front of a computer all day as part of their job.

MMS was something that I simply never used and its absence from the iPhone feature set was a moot issue in my book. I email stuff. Always have - always will.

Now copy&paste, not having that was irksome.

@BergenCountyJC: I am loathe to defend AT&T, but a lie and a miscalculation/mistake are not the same thing.

@350z-racer: If you use an exchange server, I believe so. Or if you use MobileMe, or a third-party app.

Chewmieser

@cloudnine: F AT&T!

adhir

@Jux: Nah, its a comment from commenter that hasn't been OK'd yet by a mod, so you can't see what he's replying too...

AmphetamineCrown

@350z-racer: Yup - been receiving push mail since 2006 from Yahoo, and Exchange since over a year ago.

Greg Lloyd

@Geisrud: You're right. The iPhone is absolutely worthless to me without MMS.

Sorry to be bitchy at you Justine - I've just never seen an AT&T apologist before.

Fact is they lied, nothing more, nothing less. Sept 25 does not equal late summer.

BergenCountyJC

@hcho3: Yeah man. Four fk'in days. No one has ever been four days late on anything before. Stone them.

And yeah. Apple oughta kill that damn exclusivity. I mean, except for the fact that they are one of the two companies that sort of agreed to the exclusivity and they make tons of money on it. Yeah.

I swear buying an iPhone has to drop your IQ by forty points or more.

AmphetamineCrown

Fear tethering. The at&t network isn't close to being able to handle it. if they do implement it, you won't be able to afford it. People with jobs that pay their data charges will get tethering, bringing the network speed to a grinding halt.

@xhedgehogx:

That can't be right. It's about $ 85 or so after taxes for the lowest ATT plan with 200 texts. Family plan is the way to go. Unlimited messaging, and we pay just over $70 a piece after taxes.

@OMG! Ponies!: But indeed, no one is making you use it.

@350z-racer: What do you mean by REAL, my yahoo mail is setup where it tells me I have mail almost the second i get it. I guess that is REAL... *shrug*

Finally, I can receive the pictures my friend Alex tries to send me of his caulk.

@ZombieFlanders: You mean tethering is the only good thing about the iPhone? Isn't that the only thing left?

Or are you talking about the app store, which has nothing to do with AT&T?

AmphetamineCrown

"the excellent performance that customers expect." But I didn't get that at all with AT&T. That's why I'm with T-Mobile now.

Gordon McAlpin

@chanmoss: You must enjoy making yourself look like a complete and utter moron. Good job!

cloudnine

i remember when i installed the first 3.0 beta, and it used to let you add pics in messages like this. even though they'd come back with an unsent/unsendable error message, it still totally rocked my socks.

ah, optimistic nostalgia. how i love thee.

worst. giz commenter. ever.

@killerbunny: MMS in 1989?

As for tethering, hopefully our hacks will continue to work on non jail broken iPhones that it wouldn't matter if tethering comes to At&t or not. Besides I won't pay for it, if I have to..

Kayno

It's about frickin' time!

@Steve: Lmao You nailed it. Two thumbs up to you!

Alex Deida

@johnmc: Oh, I know that they got rid of TDMA long ago. My point, although, poorly made apparenlty, is that GSM is the next evolution of TDMA and to a degree still built upon their aging infrastructure. GSM is definitely better and much more robust - I agree. Really, the thing that I question is whether or not their current infrastructure can support the load. Although, as @wirelessjoe pointed out below, they are working at upgrading the network to LTE, which I totally forgot about.

@chanmoss: As I always say, I love apple products but most apple fanboys really need to get a grip on reality and get off Steve jobs nuts

crsrc

@drewheyman: You're a doofus.

@Wireless Joe: That's a good point. I totally forgot that they want to go with LTE. I don't know if I can be patient enough to last that long, we'll see...

strange to see all the people on here defending apple, wassup with that? i'm a machead since 86, pissed for how they have stood by at&t while i type in two random codes on some unreliable website for every mms message i get. apple has strung us along from the beginning over mms-and they are late again (even if it is technically only 4 days--they said mid to late summer), and now they aren't even going to upgrade my (late voicemail receiving) 1st gen with mms. i keep thinking, what would happen if i just got rid of my computer and my phone and just was like, free of all this!

@chanmoss: It wouldn't be smart for Apple to criticize ATT right now. Just like when Apple announced the switchover to Intel, they said "But we're really excited about some great products we have in the pipeline with the PowerPC chip ".

Obvi they weren't excited. They needed some BS products to fill the gap.

Apple needed a carrier to get into the cell phone game. ATT provided this. Had Apple failed with their product, it wouldn't be a big deal. However, Apple's product far surpassed ATTs service. But it's a bad business move to bite the hand that feeds you, because that turns customers off.

Apple will move to another carrier, some day. Then everyone will look back and remember those days "when Apple was stuck with ATTs shitty service"

@bornonbord: What you say is true: what is going on, all these people on here who are defending apple. i'm an apple fanboy and i'm pissed off at the way apple has stood by at&t, they are just as much at fault, i'm so over all these people being like "apple is golden" when they are not. i know this, i've been an applehead since 87!

@rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy: wtf. video recording has nothing to do with at&t.

actually your whole comment is filled with ignorance

crsrc

@cloudnine: oh please, apple chose at&t, as far as i'm concerned, they are in cahoots with eachother. and if they are not, then apple should speak up to stop the story telling.

@technopimp: that is exactly how it is at 90% of the places I go regularly. stretching from San Francisco to San Jose

crsrc

@ttech10: mms started in 2002

Wow. The iPhone is finally going to have all of the features of a feature phone from 2006! Now if only it could get the features that smart phones have had for years like multitasking.

@uncle_jojo: that's easy. The 5 most densely populated cities in the nation are:

1. New York
2. San Francisco
3. Los Angeles
4. Honolulu
5. Chicago

crsrc

"it was important to give our customers a positive experience from day one" - HAHAHA this is a joke right? Because the service has never been positive.

In Ausitn they usally sponsor a music show called ACL where last year they had two stages yet hardly anyone could get their iphones to work because they only bothered bring one extra tower. That is an example of their "positive experience". They can't even provide a positive experience at an event they are helping to pay for.

hadees

@Monty: I understand disappointment when deadlines are missed, but I guess was too cynical to ever really read that as a hard and fast deadline. B'sides, I thought they said "late summer" anyway. If they had rolled this out 4 days ago, it is safe to say no one could have called 'em on it. Seems to me like its an awful stupid thing to bitch about.

I'm just tired of whine-prone iPhone users and their whole sense of entitlement. When you bought the phone, you bought it with certain limitations; one of those limitations was the network. If I understand right, iPhone users consume 10x the bandwidth of other smartphone users, but only pay like a 20% surcharge over other plans (and they bitched about that too). So, iPhone users generate about $3B per year ($30/mo. x 12 x 9M), yet are responsible for the redirection of AT&T's entire $18B build budget for this year into increasing 3G capacity for those 9M users. You really want tethering?

And, before even one non-US pinhead shows up with the requisite "eh... I pay X and get tethering and MMS," talk to me when you can drive 3000 miles in your country and stay on 3G 90% of the time.

AmphetamineCrown

@MyNameIsTooAwesome: where in uruguay? i used to live there as well

JerseyCelebrity

I don't have an iphone, so this is a pretty shitty birthday present. friggin apple, you would've been better off giving me a t-shirt =/

here's a thought: allow sms and mms to utilize wifi connection to lighten the load on the crappy AT&T network.

crsrc

@AkkiRonin: ya, they are money grubbers

@fueled by sound: i hear that! so annoying. i'm thinking of just getting rid of it. i don't really want finger cancer from the touch screen that badly. there is a whole world of connectivity out there, its live, interactive nature.

Has anyone who travels for biz/work noticed that AT&T service seems to be better in mid-sized suburban size cities AWAY from major metro areas? I'm not talking about the suburbs of LA or SF or NY, but out further. Some of the best service I've found (4 to 5 bars consistently) is in cities like Phoenix, Albuquerque, Buffalo, Vegas, El Paso, etc.

Anyone know why the major metro areas (LA, SF, NY, Chi) can't seem to keep the bandwidth up? Lack of space for more towers & antennas? Too many users?

Thanks!

In the 3 months I've been an AT&T customer (jumped on with the 3GS launch, so I guess not even 3 months) my reception/service has gotten progressively worse. I now cannot even make or receive phone calls in my own home. I can sit here and watch my reception go from 3 bars to 1 bar to "Searching" to 5 bars with 3G to 1 bar with Edge...without moving an inch. And I cannot complete a single call without it getting dropped. I can't fathom how it could get any worse, but introducing MMS into the mix may prove me wrong.

technopimp

@lnlogauge: NFL Sunday ticket same idea... MONEY MONEY MONEY

@chanmoss: oh great now i read that 1st gens are left out. i stand by my words: fuck off apple!

@chanmoss: nothing but macs since '86 here, i'm a big apple fanatic, but they certainly aren't perfect (sync notes lie back when i bought the thing in the beginning--took two years to get that!) when they at first string us along and then say they are coming out with mms mid to late summer, and then they are late, they can bet i'll have something to say about it. if they don't like it, then maybe they will take it to at&t or whatever. i'm not going to defend apple with mms, they chose at&t! i can't tell you how annoying it has been for years to punch in two random codes on a website for each mms message i get, and sometimes it won't even work. and now i'm getting voicemails late (not the only one). apple let this at&t ball drop long ago.

As a customer who recently switched from AT&T, all I can say is good riddance! I had horrible reception for years with them. "End of Summer" BS.

@Barry99705: Wouldn't it be the 21st century?

jwoods3

no peace until video recording is enabled on all three generations of iPhone (jailbreak community managed to do it), MMS is enabled on all three generations (again, the jailbreakers managed it) and, uh, tethering has already existed on the iPhone (hai again jailbreakers).

typical AT&T trying to constrict their bandwidth without putting actual caps on it.

@bornonbord: What you say is true: Being able to interpret marketing mumbo-jumbo into English is a great skill to have in an economy like this.

@AmphetamineCrown: Not trying to be a pain, but more for clarification. As I understand it, AT&T has excluded a rather common feature and stated it would be available "before the end of the summer". So, unless I misunderstand, it is not that they missed the deadline by four days, they missed it by somewhere between 4 to 99 days, depending on perspective.

That said, I do not have forty IQ points to lose, so I should avoid buying an iPhone.

@uttc16: Justice! Sort of.

s0crates82

@crsrc: sms, mms, AND voice. Make every wifi connection a femtocell!

s0crates82

I've had MMS since you had that MMS guide on how to activate it..... Idk why you guys are all "OMG IT'S COMING" when it's been here.................

Zach Stephan

@NewSc2: I know what you're saying, that the MMS standard is rather outdated by today's options (and that's what Apple has acted like too), but I still feel the iPhone should be able to do it all.

pixelpushing

@TheseGoTo11: You and I know they would have replaced the head of that woman with a middle-aged Polish guy!

pixelpushing

@Barry99705: Ok, Barry, we all want to know. (rolls eyes) What "good" phone did you get?

pixelpushing

@crsrc: This would cut into the precious pre-millennium profit model of "minutes" and will not be considered! We would rather tell you how our network is burdened and we are expanding it, even though your idea would indeed work if we could implement it without profits taking a hit!

- signed, Ma Bell

pixelpushing

@Steve: Yeah guys, go on thinking that you're years ahead of the iPhone. That's exactly why every phone and OS has been scampering about trying to meet the features people now expect after the iPhone.

FYI, the iPhone does have multitasking, it's simply limited to certain apps like the phone, the iPod, SMS, maps, the camera, and the web browser. I'd love it to be full multitasking but I have been able to squeeze quite a bit of mobile power from those apps I listed all working at once.

Why not levy your snide anger at Sprint, who limits the Pre from using data and voice at the same time with their network? You can't even look up a map while on the phone, or receive a call while downloading an attachment from your e-mail or any data transfer, for that matter.

pixelpushing

@Zach Stephan: No need to be "that guy."

pixelpushing

@Petey-ed: Don't waste your time.

Funny. I've seen plenty of people quick to talk bad about the US, but I've never seen someone from the US make fun of any other country. It's just jealousy. When you're not happy with where you live, you make fun of someone else's country. I tend to just ignore idiots like that now.

@TasteTheFlava: How? Ohhh! I see it now.

Kiamat

@planetarian: It's my birthday too, and I don't have an iPhone either. Let's weep together.

@Steve: If only other phones could match the iPhone for sales, you know, like WinMo or Pre, or Android....

And then Aps.

And then the UI.

And then the ecosystem for Music/Video/Aps/Podcasts

And then the 3rd party accessories

And.. well, you probably got the message by now.

You see, as iPhone users we've had a user friendly Email service, with unlimited data plan, and we've been able to EMAIL our photos to everyone, even people without cell-phones.

Amazing! - EMAIL - who thought of such a revolutionary concept....

S-Express

....and on Sept 26th they will shit can it, 'cause the constant crashes.

GeneralGozz

Day One was over two years ago, and we're still waiting for that "positive experience."

Cash907Censored