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AT&T confirms iPhone MMS coming Friday morn!

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 4:44 PM

att-logoIt’s been a long and winding road for AT&T and the iPhone. The iPhone initially launched without any 3G support. The iPhone 3G solved that problem, and added GPS. Most recently iPhone 3GS finally added video recording and a magnetic compass. Come Friday (September 25th) morning, AT&T will at long last flip the switch on their iPhone MMS service, giving picture happy customers an outlet for all their spur-of-the-moment cameraphone pics. That is, unless you’re still using an original first-generation iPhone.

AT&T confirmed, through their Facebook page, that iPhone MMS will be fully rolled out nationwide by late morning on Friday. We’re expecting Big Blue to push out a carrier settings update file through iTunes. That’s great news and all for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users with iPhone OS 3.0 installed, but doesn’t really do much for original iPhone users. Regardless of iPhone OS 3.0′s ability to handle MMS, some sort of hardware limitation will keep first-gen iPhone users from sending picture messages all willy-nilly.

If you’re really dying to get MMS on your first-gen iPhone, you’ll probably want to look into jailbreaking your iPhone and using a third-party MMS application.

[Via: AT&T]

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  • Mitchell

    It’s 1:05am here in Dallas Texas.
    Still waiting for my mms!!!!

  • R bounds

    Still waiting in Houston.

  • Mike

    So, it’s 1:10PM in Boston and NO updates have been available and no updates from Apple….WHAT GIVES?????

  • Stunnin

    No mms in Cali at 11am

  • Will Park

    have you tried checking for updates through iTunes?

  • dmj

    1:25p in Chicago… nothing.