http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/ Engadget Comments for MMS finally comes to Apple's iPhone 3G via OS 3.0 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
It'll make it's way to 2G along with A2DP by 3rd party apps. The hardware is already there in the iPhone, a couple of hacks and presto...MMS and A2DP on iPhone 2g.]]>Mar 17th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
Nope, and I know this for a fact as I'm happily receiving MMS messages on my 1st gen device using SwirlyMMS. Apple are just being greedy corporate arseholes.]]>Mar 17th 2009 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
Another source has posted this from the Apple Q&A session

Quote:
"Q: Is there a physical hardware problem on the first-gen iPhone that prevents it from doing MMS?

A: It’s a different radio, so it is a physical issue."]]>Mar 17th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
These fuckers are abandoning 1st gen iPhone owners for some of the new functionality - am I correct?]]>Mar 17th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
That might be what was said but I highly doubt it. My guess, AT&T and Apple didn't include MMS in their initial revenue sharing agreement or there was some agreement that MMS would not come to the 1st gen iPhone. Apple didn't allow the MMS update to carry over to 1st gen iPhones to protect that agreement, because they make money on that agreement. 3G iPhone owners have to add a messaging plan unlike 1st gen iPhone subs. My guess, everything is always about the $$$$.]]>Mar 17th 2009 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
I'm no phone engineer, but that is very wrong. MMS uses the same radio as all SMS, data, and voice communication. There is only one radio for cellular communication. The only other radio transceivers are for Bluetooth, Wi-fi, and GPS (receiver only).

I think the hardware excuse works for lack of A2DP on the 1st gen, but not for lack of MMS.]]>Mar 17th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
"late to the party"

"copycat"

"stolen from (x)"

"playing catchup"

If it's good for others, it works here too.]]>Mar 17th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/They've been working on this for quite awhile I assume.

And to all the "My Nokia had MMS in 2002" butt plugs. -- Your Nokia couldn't do 1/256th of the stuff the iPhone can do. MMS was OBVIOUSLY an oversite by Apple.

You dont say "oooops" and flip a switch. They had bigger ideas. Some of the basic ones were unfortunately left out.

I love when my iPhone hating friends actually pick it up and start playing with it.

Conversation quickly goes from "iPhone sucks".....to "Damn, I gotta get one of these. How much are they again?"]]>Mar 17th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
Kiss my ass. Nokias used to be able to do way more than the iPhone. Now with the 3.0, iPhone just finally caught up. Yea, the iPhone's interface kicks Nokia's ass, but all this deleting multiple messages and forwarding multiple messages thing has long been in Nokias. You don't know a single thing and just start blabbing.]]>Mar 17th 2009 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
I've had several phones. Some of them were even Nokia's.......even.

Looky......big red (-) thingy]]>Mar 18th 2009 1:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
Damn.......You really are a Tool.
Not kinda.......but seriously.

Go play with your Nokia........tell us how you like it.

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Messaging 1500

Includes:

* 1500 messages per month

Four ways to message for one low price

1500 text, picture, video, and Instant Messaging (IM) messages per month. Additional messages are 5 cents each.

I don't think they charge per message as long as you have a messaging bundle. Pay attention to the terms and details of these packages.
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$240 USD for a year of unlimited TEXTING (pictures, ect) is still a ton of money.]]>Mar 17th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
Do your research and shut your yap...

That is all...]]>Mar 17th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
You're saying MMS requires 3G? Whoa...... No, like not even close. Like forget in the same ballpark, try different cities that's so wrong. Explain how my wife's old GSM/GPRS enabled Samsung phone from 4 years ago could do MMS? Maybe you should take your own advice, just sayin'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service

"At the time, 2G GSM was in the process of evolving into the 2.5G GPRS of roughly double the performance. A short 160 character limit no longer made sense, so the "Third-Generation Partnership Program" (3GPP) proposed extending the existing SMS standard to allow messages of any length. Additionally, they proposed adding MIME support for file attachments, and real multimedia support. However, modifying display systems to handle any sort of media format was a more difficult problem, so 3GPP partnered with the WAP standards process to produce MMS.[3]
Since then, MMS has been deployed worldwide and across both GSM/GPRS and CDMA networks. The first commercial MMS launched worldwide was in March 2002 by Telenor, in Norway, using Acision infrastructure."]]>Mar 17th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 18th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
so you guys are saying that the iphone can ONLY send and receive mms messages when 3g is available? my t68i, t616 and s710 all did it without 3g. what makes the iphone so different? where did you two get this information from?]]>Mar 18th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/ummm, actually it did have internet and it didn't need an App store with many different apps and games that you had to pay for. it had bluetooth and infrared AND MMS so you got all that for free. and the screen had 256 colors while most others were still monochrome. that, as most other sony ericssons, was a revolutionary phone. but because apple's marketing team wasn't behind them, alot of people never heard of them and now think it's sooooo cool that apple would allow their "smartphone" to do this with a free upgrade.]]>Mar 18th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/
Looks like MMS/A2DP won't be available for 1st gen iPhone. Sorry guys/gals.]]>Mar 17th 2009 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/mms-finally-comes-to-apples-iphone/Mar 17th 2009 4:35PM