AT&T Responds: iPhone 3.0 MMS and Tethering
We'll just pass then the mic and let you tell us what you think in the comments!
Regarding MMS:
We absolutely will offer MMS on iPhone 3G S in late summer once we complete some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience with MMS. These upgrades are unrelated to our 3G network. When MMS is ready, we will let customers know.
Regarding offering a tethering plan:
We plan to offer one but we don’t have an announcement to make at this time.
Joe Chandler
Executive Director
AT&T Corporate Communications
[Thanks to Phil for bringing this one home!]
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"We absolutely will offer MMS on iPhone 3G S in late summer". I'm assuming this includes the iPhone 3G as well??
AT&T: "More BS in more places!" ;P
Uh, on the iPhone 3GS? Let's hope he meant iPhone OS 3.0(3G and 3GS). If not.....RIOT!
Why don't they mention the fact that all exsisting iPhone 3G users can't upgrade without paying an extra $200! WTF!? This didn't happen last year!
02 to support MMS and tethering on 3.0 Release Date!!
Same deal as AT&T tho you will have to wait till contract finishes or pay to upgrade!!
Time to realize, people! Apple is not trying to offer the best phone it can every year. It is simply trying to get you sheep to buy the “coolest new phone”! Iphone 1 could have easily had all the features that iPhone 3Gs has! At&t is not going to lower their prices, they are making too much money of you sheep! Palm Pre still out deuls iPhone 3GS, no argument! Why not give iPhone 3GS multitasking ability, if it has twice the speed and RAM of 3G? Why offer a new OS that gives more than just search? No, they just take the old and add a few tweaks and call it ‘iPhone OS 3.0′! You fanboys will never learn. Sprint’s Palm Pre is the clear winner!
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Apple probably does not have enough production capacity to upgrade existing iPhone users at this time. It will be hard enough to meet the demand of new users.
Anybody else feeling the need to firebomb their local AT&T store?
When it is Ready? I have been sending MMS on my phone for years? ATT is A JOKE!
@Andy - why should us 3G owners qualify for an upgrade? The reason that 2G owners like myself were eligible is because we paid full price for the damn thing when we bought it. There was never a discount given for the original iPhone... they did not begin subsidizing until the 3G was available, and that discount was given to 2G owners because they never were eligible for a discount in the first place.
How to force customers to upgrade year after year!
That's what the title of this post should have been.
BTW not only will 1st gen and 3g not get MMS, but that kewl App store App that made it possible for both to be able to send MMS ISendMMS will most likely not be included in the 3.0 apps to come
Wow who taught Apple and AT&T how to treat faithful customers? I think they learned from the old communist block. I guess next we can look forward to secret squads of black special forces busting in our doors in the middle of the night for having Jailbroken devices.
Looks like it's time to look into the Right to Repair act. Those drafting have already thought of including computers and other hand held devices. Write your reps if you don't want to dragged off int he middle of the night!
AT&T sucks, period. There choice to screw customers this time around with the iPhone 3GS may be their biggest mistake ever- If I were Apple, I'd drop them ASAP.
I'm making it my missions to get #attsucks to the top of the trending topic lists (even tho technically, it already is at the top)
ATTSUCKS SRSLY.
@iRoc
Have they said that MMS will not be available on the 3G and only on the 3GS? I would think that if that were the case, they would have excluded it at the March 17th event like they did the 2G. I highly doubt it will be 3GS exclusive, especially since other countries will be offering it from the jump.
I can't imagine how much complaints they received about this today.
But wait a minute, if I have any 3G phone with MMS, can't I use it on AT&T today??
@Daniel I only agree on MMS, iPhone 2G uses EDGE and both it and the 3G models have a limited processor and 128 MB of RAM, thus making some of the features just not as good as Apple would approve them, so no video and no voice commands, but as I can use Skype under 3G on my jailbroken iPhone, I'm sure this is only a matter of time.
Same thing for tethering, but I guess it'll be pretty hard to jailbreak 3G S, since the iPod Touch 2G is still pretty confusing to jailbreak.
I think AT&T is struggling with their inept programmers. They have been working on this stuff for a while and they're still not ready. For example the at&t iphone app actually asks for your phone number...
The best part of the keynote was the macbook changes. The iPhone 3GS is a POS. Not worth fooling with an upgrade. They should have delayed until they had a phone that showed some real progress.
@Chris:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/
MMS is available on #G and 3Gs.
@HOSS: #9 You better hope no one does, because you are now first on the suspect list.
@Chris - I understand that, because I too had a 2G & I just read a whole article about that. But still, I don't like the fact they don't mention this from the beginning. I go to pre-order the 3G S, and then at checkout I see $499 and it annoyed the hell out of me. But is the only official difference between the 3G and 3G S is the Camera/Video and Voice Control? 3G will still have MMS right? (Maybe I can live without Video and Voice Control...)
Bullshit AT&T. You should be ready to go immediately on both fronts once Apple releases 3.0. Extremely unacceptable! I was putting up with all the shit AT&T threw at me such as sky high pricing and poor network development. Not any more. You fucked me on my 3G experience and I will be hard pressed to buy another iPhone once my contract is up. This is the reason why our economy is crumbling. Businesses offering shitty products for premium pricing. It's the reason people stopped buying American cars and why businesses falsified financials so they could continue raping the public.
Here Here Dan. Apple needs to seriously get the iPhone onto another carrier and create some competition. ATT's complacency is awful. How can they not have some sence of urgency to keep up with Apple's innovations? ATT dropped the ball before, and they are doing it again. Shame on you ATT.
ok people i understand you are upset about upgrading costing so much. But the first gen iphone wasnt subsidized. Technically you shoudnt even have had to put a 2 year contact on your head. But the 3g was and at&t shelled out money from their pocket so you can have that phone. But you havent fully paid at&t back and you are asking them to shell out money so you can get another phone? Why would they do this. They havent gotten the money they put out for you yet. When your 2 year contact is over then they have their money. US law doesnt let them put a +2 years contact on you. Otherwise if they could then they would just extend your contract by 2 years and give you the phone for that money. But as it stands now 2 years is the max contract anyone can put on you. So At&t will not give you money to get anotehr phone. Its money our of their pocket.
Umm..just sell old iphone, buy new one. That wasn't so hard was it?
I can somewhat swallow the upgrade cost. It's the same with other phones/carriers. But not being ready for MMS & tethering is "Extremely unacceptable!" Late Summer!?! WTF?!? Did they just figure out that 3.0 was hitting next week? Wow, how about that "F U" to us from ATT. Just awful.
Oh, I think technically they probably close to ready on both fronts, after all they certainly should be. The problem is they haven't quite figured how to suck even more money $$$ out of your wallet without taking a public flogging for it.
Talk about att hitting it while the iron is hot. They are so pathetic i am not going to upgrade an i will just wait untill the next iphone which hopefully comes out on verizon. Then i will be able to get 3g in my area instead of being 70 miles away in Indianapolis, In. which is the closest att 3g
when does their exclusivity deal expire?
Oh I guess AT&T must have just found out about the existence of OS 3.0 this afternoon at the keynote. What other excuse could they have for having no tethering news to announce at this time?
Why is AT&T delaying rollout of iPhone tethering, MMS?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10260012-37.html
The truth is at the very bottom.
Its just the Opt-Out that has to be removed from EVERY plan for MMS to magically start working. Then they have to make sure their MMS trap is shut down. Worst case, they might need to send out another Carrier Update.
No additional equipment. Not upgrades. I expect MMS to actually be available at the time OS 3.0 is released (just my wild guess).
I just bought the new iPhone 3G (S) didnt pay any upgrade from my original 3G I bought last year... was 199 for the 16gb
@ Robb how did u do the pre order because it is making me pay the full price when I do the pre order
Don't forget the 3G iPhone was half price because of the data plan going from $20 (2G) to $30 (G3) over 24 months!
I just ordered mine from the apple site, which linked back to my at&t account, and the price was $212 shipped for the the 16gb model...
And I bought my original 3G the day it came out.. I was surprised it didn't charge me full price too.
@robb - I got my 3G the day it came out too, and on Apple.com it tells me I qualify for the update on 3/12/10.
Screw this guy and screw AT&T, there is no excuse! We've known about MMS coming with 3.0 since March! Which means AT&T knew long before that, and every other phone from AT&T has MMS and has had it for YEARS!
Do they have to get out the horse and buggy to turn the wooden wheel which runs their network?
EVERY other carrier will have MMS capability on the 17th, AT&T has no excuse, none, they are probably just trying to figure out a way to charge us even more for MMS. When it's finally ready 4 months from now in the fall they can say it's a "new" feature and charge us 50 bucks a month for unlimited MMS messages.
It should be ready on the 17th along with 3.0, the only reason it isn't isbecause of choice, AT&T is choosing not to give it to us, and for that they can go to hell. I want to switch to Verizon or T-mobile, hopefully one ofthem gets the iphone or something comparable real soon.
Can someone explain to me the difference between sending a MMS on a generic (i.e. samsung) 3g phone verses the iPhone 3g?
They have unlimited messages of ALL kinds of messages, why screw us over? I'm actually on that "unlimited" plan.
There is no difference, AT&T is just full of ****.
My 5 year old Samsung could send and recieve MMS messages! On ATT!!
Whoopty-Frickin-Doo.... Figures that we still get screwed out of MMS on the $phone. Now it's "delayed" till late summer. I sold my 3G and Im back to using a Blackberry Curve. When 3Gs does become available and I can afford to pay (the full price), I'll probably just get a newer better, FASTER Blackberry! What a disappointment.
AT&T REALLY dropped the ball on this one. It's not like they haven't had adequate forewarning that MMS and tethering were coming. And they're not ready yet? Really? I hope heads are rolling at AT&T, but probably not. AT&T is definitely the weak link in the iPhone experience here in the U.S.
There's an article on boygeniusreport.com that discusses the reasoning for MMS is because there is an "MMS opt out" code on everyone's account that they have to disable. Oh, and data+tethering plans will cost $70. Sorry, can't provide URL because copy/paste isn't out yet.
That makes no sense, AT&T is up to something, it would take me about ten seconds togo into settings and enable mms.
I use to own an iPhone 2g but today I upgraded to the 3g. Mainly because I wasn't impressed by the 3gs. I know that others may feel different but to me it didn't have that wow factor. Faster speeds that I can't tell exist because of the coverage in my area. The 3.0 mp camera plus autofocus is a goodstep up but it still doesn't have an flash. The 32 gbs to me is the best selling point but it wasn't enough to sway. Voice commands and a compass really........ C'mon apple. I done with the carrot on a stick games that apple plays. I loved my 2g and hopefully the experience will be the same with my new 3g. Thanks for the great coverage of WWDC TiPB. If they wouldve came out with something totally new on the hardware side I wouldve been on the boat but they didn't so I'm missing this 1. Plus by the time this contract is up, 4g (lite) should have all the kinks worked out. My 2 cents.
This "update", add / remove from plans is a load of horse s*. I just sent a MMS to my wife from my Bold. Seemed to work just fine. I can TXT too. IM is up and running. I don't pay extra for any of it. I have a crappy old RAZR phone that sends MMS. So the latest and greatest iphone can't yet?? You have to be kidding. Lets put a phone on sale and not let some functions work until "late summer" and "we will let you know". I know this is an Apple site, but do you guys remember all the stupidity ATT had with releasing the Bold?? Was delayed. Could not say when the release was. Missed 2 release "dates". All of you going out to get this phone now better not hold your breath waiting for it to "work". And don't beat me up. I have a 3G too. I carry the Bold because of cr like this.
@carolinamic: You say that the next one should have the kinks worked out. People said that when the first gen device came out, and it wasn't true for the 3G when it came out. Don't buy something and expect a future device will do what the one you have now won't. Buy something that does what you want now.
It's not AT&T. I talked to a rep last night and he said that it's in the contract from Apple. Apple told them to opt- out MMS. Because Apple felt that email was the way to go with MMS. Then he said it would takes weeks to provsion everyone's account. Also he told me that if I get it before the 17th I could call in they would manually do it. Then he said if you get the right rep you can talk them into doing it.
Per AT&T, MMS will be enabled on 3G and 3Gs. Additionally, the $299/$399 price marks are valid as long as you've surpassed your one year upgrade mark. If you recently bought an iPhone 3G you are stuck until you've had it at least one year. For me, I will have to wait until 07/29/09 before I can upgrade.
What if they get all the people to buy the 3G S and then later announce that they will be charging for MMS and you HAVE to pay for the MMS like data.
That would be very sneaky but I doubt that's the problem.
AT&T is garbage. I hate their service. Most bars in most places my ass. Their calls get dropped all the time. Worthless company! I am mad I am stuck to a contract still. The iPhone isn't worthy your shitty service AT&T! AT&T should stand for "Americas Terrible Telephone"!
When AT&T gives us our bills this month lets all send them a letter that says "To ensure our contract obligations have the highest amount of quality, we are delaying our payment until late summer"
that boycott guy above me has my vote. thats what imma do
Here's the problem AT&T has with tethering on the iPhone:
The DataConnect plan for laptops is $60/month, and is not unlimited (you pay for over 5 GB). It is data-only, no talkie time. The iPhone plan is basically $30/month on top of your voice plan, and it is unlimited data.
Tethering your laptop to the iPhone cannabalizes their DataConnect plan. They lose $30/month to start, and no data overage profit. And just think of all they'll be losing when pirate 3G-to-Wi-Fi hotspots start showing up everywhere, competing with the official AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots...
Actually, it is a relief that AT&T won't allow me to upgrade my 3G to 3GS this summer at a reasonable price. I love my iPhone so much that I was kind of looking forward to forking over $300 and upgrading and continuing with another two-year contract.
Now while waiting until next summer, I will hope and pray that T-Mobile or another top-tier carrier can get their hands on the iPhone (or hey, I've been a Palm user for many, many years, the Pre).
It is comforting to know that my days with AT&T are limited.
Just sign me, Fed Up
I agree with everyone's complaints about At&T. I was with Tmobile and only wish the Iphone could be used on their network without having to modify hardware to do so. Their coverage and speed is inferior to Tmobile while charging greater fee for service. And I was really disgusted to see that as an existing AT&T customer, I would have to pay $499 to get the iphone3GS. Other than the improved camera, I am hoping the new 3.0 OS will suffice with it's features....oh, wait, AT&T can't support those new features.
How come when we are late paying our bill, AT&T calls us up to pay our bill...but when AT&T can't deliver MMS or tethering, we have to be patient and wait when AT&T gets their act together.
How would AT&T feel that the check will be in the mail at the end of this summer?
Don't upgrade to the iPhone 3Gs, because next year your AT&T contract ends and just in time to dump AT&T in favor of Verizon!
I agree AT&T is up to some fishy business. While using 3.0 I see that a few of these features are absent. WTF? End of the summer! They need to have this stuff ready now because I'm on it. Well atleast by the 17th. Funny thing is my wireless bill is slowly creeping up and AT&T can't explain why. We are all being charged for something!
I can't stand AT&T-my service has been horrible and the only reason I keep them is for the iphone. As soon as there's another option I'm switching. My calls are constantly dropped, I can't access my voicemail.... And, it's not the phone. Same things happening with a new phone, as it did with the old one.
AT&T needs to react quickly. However I think Apple has some blame to share. They are making millions on the iPhone. They could bring the price down a bit.
MMS - When I talked to Apple about sharing pictures they told me it was easy. Just send it with an email. Skinny pointed that out.
Apple and AT&T are making tons of money. Time to reward us with some decent prices!
I have a alpha version of 3.0 running on my iPhone... It is very disapointing. There is not even any options for mms at this time in the settings, no mms icon, nothing. IMO there is nothing noticably worth doing the firmware update. I was very excited, now very disapointed.
ATT... I have been with you guys for more than 12 years as a wireless customer. Going through the Cingular change cost me more than $200. Then upgrading to iPhone, cost me another ungodly monthly increase. The service has always been marginal. From what I am hearing the Edge network is more relaible than 3G. I wanted to upgrade to the new iPhone 3GS, but now not only are the phone's ridiculously priced, there is a caviate in app availability, 3G still is not everywhere I want or need to be. I just don't understand why NO SERVICE in a Metropolitan area would even appear, yet this happens often and all I get from tech services, is "we'll let our team know" five months later, nothing has changed. I spend over $250/month for my family's phone service, why can't you do better with your BILLIONS of dollars. Is your infrastructure really that old or piece milled? CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!
@Ray...Agree. ATT can't even get 3G up and running. What makes anyone think it will be any different with the 3GS? HSPA 7.2 will probably be even more unreliable. That's one big reason why I'll keep my 3G and decide if I just want to drop ATT all-together.
AT&T is the new Antichrist. I swear it's operated by the Bush family. Nazi bastards. Can't give us MMS on the iPhone 3G that I chose over the Blackberry Storm? Hey verizon, can u hear me now? I'm sorry!! I should have chose you instead of this communist crap I have to deal with now. I agree with everyone else on the list. What if my money showed up late this summer? **** U AT&T !!!! I'm done with your crap the day my ball and chain(a.k.a., your bull*hit contract) is off.
Ok, so I just updated my iphone, and I am just in utter shock that the main upgrades to the phone are now not supported by AT&T... what crazy witchcraft or wizardry does the iPhone do when it sends a MMS that makes it comparable to walking on water? Why cant ATT do their god damn job and make this happen, i can walk in and sign up for a 2 year contact and get a free, piece of crap phone, and it can send and receive pics and more than likely videos. so why cant my iphone??.. it is absolutely ridiculous. I think AT&T owes its iphone customers something, they seriously dropped the ball on this one, and dont even get me started on the outrageous prices for the new iPhone 3GS...but its ok, a $500 phone that still wont enable users to take advantage of any of the new features, so whats the point of spending a fortune for that one...i should have got the Blkberry Bold.
Go figure!
Is there any hope for the 1st gen iphone getting MMS????? Because if it only had MMS it would be perfect, but nooo....
ATT is so much bullshit why cant i fucking mms on my muther fucking phone this is what all the hype is about and you still cand muther fucking use it BULLSHIT fuck you ATT FUCK YOU!
ATT is so much bullshit why cant i fucking mms on my mother fucking phone this is what all the hype is about and you still cant mother fucking use it BULLSHIT fuck you ATT FUCK YOU!
I can't believe how AT&T keeps getting away with s!!t like this. For being the most advanced smartphone out there, it doesn't even have the simple capability of MMS?!?!?! WTF!!!! There's MMS on a $50 crap phone! I love this phone but damn the carrier!
Are you freakin' kidding me?!!? No other carriers even have the iPhone (for now), so WTH is the point of including it in the update if we can't use it?! This is such BS. AT&T seriously sucks ***. If ANY other carrier offered the iPhone I would drop AT&T immediately.
I think we should all call and complain, threaten to cancel service if this isnt resolved soon!! DAMN ATT s_cks donkey balls!
So when everybody bought their iPhones did you not realize that it was on ATT? And what's the big deal about MMS anyway? Everybody is upset that they can't text a picture of their junk to their significant others. And tethering, just get a laptop with Wi-Fi and your problem is solved. You people do realize that these are iPhones and not Blackberrys right? I've had T-Mobile, Verizon and ATT, guess what? All three of them drop calls, have bad service in some places and still claim to be the best and have the best devices. If it's that big a deal, cancel your service and switch carriers. Then you can just go buy a Zune and them complain on the Microsoft website that it's not as good as the iPod.
You can't tell me that AT&T didn't know about the 3.0 upgrade with enough time to prepare whatever they needed to prepare for MMS to be available to it's customers when the upgrade released, and that AT&T doesn't have a complete lack of respect for their customers. I mean, come on the public has known about this for months now. Apple really should have went with a new carrier for the 3G S instead of sticking with AT&T. I was really worried when I heard the rumor that Apple was moving to Verizon with this new model, but now I wish they would have. I think another company would have been excited about the new customer base and actually put a little bit of effort into satisfying their customers. What a joke of a company AT&T is.
how is it i buy the best phone available and it does half of what others do.. i've been with apple and att for years. Maye be should let these big business assholes know what us consumers are made of. Cancel, don't renew, quit, change, go with others. whatever it takes.
I will drop ATT like a bad habit as soon as someone else gets the iphone (preferably Verizon). I have never had such shitty service, so many dropped calls, and such high fees in my life. They suck major donkey balls! Good one Me!!!
Ok .......... First off asshole ! Not everyone sends crap via mms , the point is that if you pay up the ass for a phone you expect it to have basic functions such as mms . Now if i dont know what kind of mms messages you send ? Probably pictures of dicks and shit like that beacuse obviously your a ignorant fag ! This is the best part ....... You tell people to " cancel your service and switch carriers. Then you can just go buy a Zune and them complain on the Microsoft website that it’s not as good as the iPod. " ? We should buy a zune and " them compain " ? Nice one ! It goes to show that you are a fucking idiot , and if you are going to talk shit ! Make sure you you spell your shit correctly ! Piss off you fucking idiot !
That last post says it all ! Obviously jeremy is a great example of inbreeding !
HERE IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO!!!
We need to make a website like, http://www.WeWantMMSnow.com or something like that, and all the page will be will be like a 100MB picture. We will have to somehow set it up that all iPhone owners visit this site on June 21 or something at noon EST. That way it will bogg down the AT&T servers so badly. We would need a way to get the word out very quickly.
I know I went to update te phone and the main reason why most ppl were so happy the we're coming out with an update was for mms. Just think. You get a plan for $80 then add the 30 on for the data then text messages. Just think how much are thy going to Fuk us with a plan with mms. What is it going to be like $25 for unlimited mms messages. There Fuking crazy. I love my iPhone and all but to spend over 150 a month for a phone/pda. It's crazy. AT&T you sure know how to stick your bar in more places.. I bet you that's the AT&T inside joke with all the CEO's ....fúù*k¡ñg šhįt¡!
i mean to start with, the whole idea of this new revolutionary phone coming in a couple years ago with all its fantastic features not being able to send or recieve these great pictures that they can take is completely insane. my old motorola piece of crap could at least do that, if the phone can take pictures it should be able to send them, its all great that its an ipod to, but honestly i wouldnt have wasted my money on it if i new it couldnt send pics, i guess i just assumed that it would be able to do that without people begging for it. and now they finally do this upgrade and i just sat here and did it just waiting to send someone my first test message, and you are freaking telling me at&t doesnt support it? isnt the iphone married to at&t? i hate it, i hate it so much
the ability to send pics has been around for what like ten years, to make a great new phone that cant even do that basic thing is ridiculous, and then finally doing it and fucking at&t the main carrier for this damn iphone doesnt even support it. fuck em im done, no more apple shit and no more at&t
whenever at&t does, or if they ever do, support mms on iphone, since i just did the stupid waste of time upgrade, does that mean i will just be able to do it, or do i have to add another service to my already ridiculous bill?
God this sucks
Keep up the calls to Apple. They really need to know we all will go with whomever they choose to carry service for future iphones! We all agree, AT&T has NO Customer Service!
COUNT ME IN, APPLE NEEDS TO TELL ATT TO F*CK OFF!
I'LL LEAVE THEM BASTARDS!!!
I hate at-t
I'll go with whoever apple goes with. anyone but at&t
This guy is a Dick
Adressing that fag ! ( jerry ) Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Ok ………. First off ******* ! Not everyone sends * via mms , the point is that if you pay up the *** for a phone you expect it to have basic functions such as mms . Now if i dont know what kind of mms messages you send ? Probably pictures of dicks and **** like that beacuse obviously your a ignorant *** ! This is the best part ……. You tell people to ” cancel your service and switch carriers. Then you can just go buy a Zune and them complain on the Microsoft website that it’s not as good as the iPod. ” ? We should buy a zune and ” them compain ” ? Nice one ! It goes to show that you are a **** idiot , and if you are going to talk * ! Make sure you you spell your **** correctly ! Piss off you **** idiot !
lets all leave AT&T
Why release something that is not 100% working. I feel a bit taken for a ride. i was so excited when i final downloaded the 3.0 just find out i can't send MMS still. WTF
wouldn't it be false advertising to say... "buy the iphone 3g(s)it has mms"! that's what the iphone website says right now!!!! this is B.S. check it our your self here. http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3g-s/messages.html
ahhh.. my bad.. I didn't see the *
*comming later this summer
I call B U L L S H I T
I have the original iphone. Bought it in Feb 2008 for $500. The in June 3G comes out and I get nothing. In March 2009 I used my upgrade capability ofr my wife to upgrade her Blackberry. Called ATT today about getting the new 3GS for the upgrade price ad they said NO - not until Feb 2010. I have 3 cell lines and 2 residential lines for several years with them and they will not allow me the upgrade price, but some douche bag off the street can walk in with $200 bucks and get the 3GS. I cancelled my service on all 5 lines - payed the money to cancel for my own personal satisfaction and went to Verizon. Screw you ATT - I will never come back!
O.K., sure you can't send pics thru MMS, but at least you can now listen to stereo music thru bluetooth headsets. I love my iPhone. It is one of the best examples of true convergence. I was ticked when I found that my iPhone, which is really and iPod Touch with a phone in it, couldn't stream A2DP. Well, now I can. Verizon is no better than AT&T, just like Apple is no better than Microsoft. The new paradigm in marketing is forced obsolecense and 2 year contracts. I feel like a dog chasing it's tail.
Between the iPhone being essentially unrepairable (Sure they will fix it, for the price of a new phone..), the finger pointing between AT&T and Apple, Apple feeding existing iPhone users (3G and pre) to the dogs, and wtf is up with calling the people who know the least about computers 'Apple Genius's', I am officially done with Apple products. I will be welcoming back the Wonderful Windows Mobile OS once this contact expires or I just can't take the POS phone any longer. You think M$ are theives, apparently they did indeed learn from the best. Enjoy going broke with your Apple prods, Im done, peace.
I'm on the verge of cancelling my contract with AT&T and going to METRO PCS In NY which has great phones and has unlimited everything for under $60 bucks. I'm so sick of the high fees and the games that AT&T keeps playing. Plus my money is hood and another company will give me decent if not better service to get it. Paying extra for what most people with cell phones pay for free is just plain ridiculous. LET's stand up to AT&T leave their business since we're not their business. Tell Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile or Metro PCS, your coming on board, then AT&T will have to step their game up if they plan to survive in the future. As well as for APPLE, please get the fuccc away from AT&T they are F'in up your business. DO SOMETHING QUICK!!!!!!! By or before summer's end I probably be with another company... Fuccc off AT&T......
I love my iPhone but AT&T is full of shit. Especially after the software update trick they pulled now. No mms on some phones, and have to pay bulk later to use it when we do get it. Like hell if you think I'ma be dumb enough to believe you or wait for some okie doke bullshit story like that this time around, y'all must be crazy. What ever y'all are smoking in those boards rooms, must be some good shit. Keep up the good work AT&T. Fuccc in up more bars, people, service, friends, family, etc in more places. Yeah y'all sure are right.....
The iPhone is being offered on verizon Q4 2009....can't wait to see everyone cancel AT&T just in time for the holidays. Merry Christmas AT&T
Well guys is either we jailbreak our phones or keep letting them screww us over I am sick of this bull AT&T have been doing this man I swear if they really do change carriers I will go with verizon that's if they have mms meanwhile let's jailbreak them I am on mines yea I'll lose warranty but fckd it is funner than just having it old boring AT&T way this is a lesson for all of us what comes around goes around let's sue them I bet will win false advertisement hit me up if your in I don't need no little bitches seriously guys
I learned the hard way with AT&T years ago with the first gen of 'SmartPhones'. AT&T wouldn't allow the features of the phone then, so why in HELL would I buy an iphone with these built-in handicaps? I alsolutely want one, but it will NEVER happen with them tethered to AT&T. APPLE... Why have an INFERIOR carrier for your superior (subjective in relation to AT&T) phone?
what the fuck man this is fucken bullshit!!!!!!!! fuck at&t i hope someone out there provides some way of pic texting without paying or upgrading to 3g s!!! just so that at&t gets fucked on this one!!!!!! they just want to squeeze every fucken penny out of the already very expensive plans!!! Thank you apple and fuck you twice over AT&T ceo you fucken douche bag!!!!!
If its just an MMS Opt-Out code, I don't see why it would take this long. The sweeps AT&T did to add the $30 iPhone 3G data package on to those people who for some reason did not have one (it is required) were done in waves, in I believe a series of 3, which did not take that long. But I do know they would need to actually build a new code for it because currently (if you look at your bill) it says iPhone text messaging package. Now it has to say "iPhone messaging" (and exclude the "text" so as to include all message types) so they do have to update their systems. But I don't know why it would take till the end of summer. That just doesn't sound right. I do imagine however that they do need to prepare their network for the onslaught of MMS that will be coming from iPhone users.