I get that MMS might be a challenge for AT&T due to some technical issue people may be generally unaware of... But really, if AT&T is going to jerk customer's chains this way over MMS, can't they at least make sure their alternative viewing method actually works? That just doesn't seem like so much to ask.

Read my take on it at The BIP Section!

When the original iPhone hardware hit with the inability by factory default to send MMS (apples mistake of course, why not include it), AT&T and their dumbfounded ideals had included the block MMS code to their system. Now with its million subscriber base, they have to go and fix all the accounts. Thats the issue. Or so we're led to believe.

Now I know on Fido, I had the same issue, and had to keep calling in,they said it was a device issue, which was bs, and I knew it. A few days ago, the 3G network went to ****, did a couple of network resets, called in, they reloaded my profile (meaning i think they never took the block off in the first place), and oh wow voila it now works.

I know its something that should have been on your iPhone from the start, and you have waited long enough. However, it will happen. When no one can for sure give you that answer, unless they are on the inside. This litigation bs is just someone not doing their product homework.

We live in a day where we expect so much, and get so little. Free press allows us to complain and bicker about it, so we do. deal with the issue in whatever way you want, the time will come when all is fixed. Just push enough, and maybe all the expectations of the customer will be fulfilled.

And get this. Because she doesn't have WiFi on her phone, she uses way more data than I do a month.

We are on the same network. We both live in the Flint, MI area. She has a LG Vu that CAN send MMS. I have an iPhone that CAN'T send MMS. What gives?

Well, you will.

And the company that will bring it to you will be AT&T

I agree

Personally I think that these same people would complain about any carrier. Neither one is perfect. I'm sure these same people would not be satisfied with anything.

Yes, you can send video, pictures, etc via email. Yes, it is free. But the purpose of MMS, IMHO, is the direct connection to other cellphones. When you send an email, you have several challenges that are just not present with MMS:

• The receiver has to check their mail constantly to see your message. Some people don't check their email for several days!

• Many cellphone users do not even set up their email addresses or even have the option for an email address for their phones.

• Sending this type of message directly to another cellphone requires that you know the reciever's mobile email address, rather than reference their number in your contacts.

• Even if the reciever has a mobile address set up, you have the mobile email address, and the reciever checks their mail every five seconds...there is also a strong possibility that the media will not display/play correctly or completely.

I simply do not see email as the total mobile solution for media transfer. Apple made the mistake of taking MMS for granted when they first developed the iPhone and AT&T does not have any justifiable excuse for delaying its inclusion in the feature set for this phone.

And for the record, when I talked to an AT&T rep about my purchase, I was led to believe that the phone would have all the basic features of any other cellphone. The rep drew the line at differences in its smartphone capabilities. (Yes, I could have researched more, but it is not a stretch to find lots of customers that made a similar assumption.)

Sorry for the long post.

But honestly I am glad this has happened, MMS should have been active since the beginning just as every other one of iPhone 3.0's "new" features.

GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND GET THIS OUT AT&T AND APPLE! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!

If MMS is so important to all of you why did you buy a phone that doesn't have this feature?

First off, lecturing someone on proper word order or spelling in the comment section of a nerdy little blog is being a total dong. You don't know if someone making the comment is using English as a second, third, or 25th language. I see this all the time in comment sections and it always makes me wanna barf. Go eat some tapioca.

Secondly, well, as a customer of AT&T, even way before the Cingular/Att bs switch, I always thought AT&T had crappy service (wireless) and customer service. Since I made the joyfully GLORIOUS decision to let Apple grace my life with their overpriced, crappy battery containing, oversized, overly glorified garbage... Uhh phone, my opinion of both companies has since declined and I hope my phone's battery will last long enough to see the day that both companies fold and all the smug apple worshipers can run crying to their hybrid cars and drive off a cliff.

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And Martin, you're in New Zealand, you should be happy your network isn't AT&T. You should be posting somewhere else!

It's just apples way to get you to buy the newer models.

Apple said at the Preview Event that the hardware had changed enough that iPhone 3.0's MMS, Stereo BT, etc. would not work on it. That's not the same as the hardware being incapable of it -- just 3.0's radio, stack, etc. wouldn't work on that hardware.

its just at&t needs to activate our iphones to send and receive mms

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9459902

You can see it being discussed there.

"they're" is supposed to be "their".

On a more relevant note, yes I am fed up with AT&T's b.s. like it's other millions of iPhone customers, but whoevers filing the MMS lawsuit is a moron. They will only lose money from it on lawyers, and AT&T promised MMS before the end of summer. The "autumnal equinox", marking the beginning of fall, is usually on September 22nd. That means they have until this date to deliver MMS to iPhone users. This is just technically though, and hopefully they won't wait until that long.

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