iPhone 3.0 brings us the ability to send and receive multimedia message (MMS). Like me, you’re probably enjoying this new feature and sending photos, videos or sharing contacts with your friends. However, there is a large group of user in United States awaiting the service. If you’re using AT&T, the exclusive carrier of iPhone in United States, MMS is not yet available on your iPhone.
Here is the big news! Congratulation to AT&T iPhone user in U.S. Finally, AT&T announced that the long-awaited multimedia messaging feature will come to iPhone on September 25. Starting from that magic day, in additional to email, you can use MMS to send photos to your friends. The service will be available to both iPhone 3G and 3GS customers. For those using the 1st generation of iPhone, you’ll not be able to enjoy the service (probably you need to consider an upgrade).
In the announcement, AT&T also explained why such basic feature, which is available to most low-grade cellphones, was delayed. They said it’s mainly to network capacity:
We know that iPhone users will embrace MMS. The unique capabilities and high usage of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience from Day One.
So, what do you need to do before using the MMS service on AT&T?
On September 25, remember to connect your iPhone to your computer and download a carrier update via iTunes before you send out your 1st multimedia message. The update procedures should be very straightforward. Just plugin your iPhone and launch iTunes. You should be prompted with the carrier update (if it’s available).
And, in case you do not know how to share contacts via MMS, get a preview by checking out the following article:
Are you using AT&T? Remember to leave us comment and let us know your experience of the service.
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about god damn time…………….. come on apple step up to the plate man
what about jailbroken iphone users??? is it okay to downloaded the updated carrier settings??
It appears that AT&T has activated MMS on US iPhone accounts, because I’ve had the updated carrier settings for my jailbroken iPhone for awhile and finally starting last week I was able to send and receive MMS.
@Mon*star, heard that AT&T selects a random group of users and rolls out the feature before the official launch day. Probably, they let more users to help testing the feature. Do let us know how it goes.