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Tuesday June 9, 2009
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During yesterday's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple didn't make much mention of AT&T, the iPhone's sole carrier in the US. Was it a sign of bad blood between the two companies? Perhaps. An even more likely possibility is the fact that carrier has little plan to implement some of the newly announced features for the iPhone 3.0 software.
Apparently AT&T won't support the long-awaited addition of MMS upon the iPhone 3GS's launch. Boy Genius Report explains the situation thusly,
[T]he reason it's not good to go right away is because AT&T has to manually remove all the "Opt Out MMS codes" on each account. Basically, if we were to summarize this, and we're going out a little bit of a limb, remove the Opt Out MMS code, and MMS will work with the final OS 3.0 build right away. Who wants to try it with the GM 3.0 build just released?
Also expected to be crippled at launch is the ability to tether a PC to the phone, though the company is reportedly working on a $70/month data plan that includes tether--but not SMS or MMS.
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June 30, 2009 4:58 PM
this is lame. I bought this iphone really excited about mms messaging to be dissapointed later on for not having one...
July 6, 2009 11:57 AM
Yah, me too. I am kind of dissapointed but oh well. there are other features available.
July 9, 2009 6:48 PM
I think its lame too. I was expecting to get the full features of the mms, the ones at the apple store had it. I wonder why the ones why buy dont
July 19, 2009 2:54 PM
Maybe they should dump AT&T and head for Verizon. 4G LTE network soon and we could support SMS, MMS and tethering immediately. And unlike most think, it could have global technology and be CDMA/GSMA.
July 30, 2009 10:37 PM
My nokia from 2003 could send MMS why the f*ck cant my brand new iPhone......idiots
August 2, 2009 4:06 AM
every single on of my t mobile phones could send and recieve mms
i did not watn the iphone because they did not support it.
i saw the 3gs(the phone i bought) and it was ADVERTISED as being MMS compatable....the friggin HOW TO guide on the iphone/at&t website talks about sending picture messages and it talks about enabling them as well.
BUT ITS NOT MMS CAPABLE.
I dropped carriers....canceled a contract. bought a new phone(3gs) i pay more a month now for a phone bill and i get half a friggin phone
apple sucks
August 16, 2009 10:52 PM
Hey Jaque (btw, it's spelled Jacques), it isn't apple, it's at&t. if you want to be angry, fine, i agree it sucks - but, apple has already provided a phone that supports tethering and mms. at&t are the ones preventing it from happening.