AT&T Announces MMS is Coming to iPhone on September 25th

Cool. Now we have a date. Finally hose who use MMS will be happy. :)

I mean those. :)

Are you still waiting for MMS in the US? I didn't realise, you're all so quiet about it! ;-)

I am..... It's sooner than later..... Early Fall guys ... ?

September 25? That is not late summer, it will be the fall season. WTF, I'm kinda happy that it will be here but 3 more weeks? Way to keep your word AT&T

It's not that exciting. I think I've used it twice since it came out in Canada.

@mark
we're in the us, people are a bunch of of barking dogs, but no bite.

I am perfectly pleased with AT&T's explanation... Now we have a date... I could do without it but I am looking forward to the convenience of it...

Anyone notice how they didn't mention tethering??

I am very happy with this decision to do MMS. I will take a picture of my daughter exiting my wife's vagina when she is birthed and send it to my entire contact list.

One step closer to being a SMRT phone!!

yey!!1 im so happy lol

Paul,
Can you send me a photo of that sweet action?

lol...so is anyone going to sue them for the 4 days past promised date?

I'm happy, finally I can tell the girls to send the pics to my phone and not have to give them my email ;-)

WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY APPLE!!!

WOW, I also heard that the iPhone will be capable of tethering with the iPhone 3.1 upgrade however, ATT wants a piece of the action and CHARGE an extra data plan for tethering WTF!!!!!!!

"their beloved carrier" hahahahah - what we are waiting for is tethering.

Finally! I'm anticipating a crash in the Northern grid because we're all gonna be MMS crazed. As an aside, anyone else notice the iPhone used in their press header (which the model is holding)? Considering MMS only works on the 3G and 3GS, nice of them to use the original iPhone for this press release. Haha.

Finally

I'm still leaving.

AT&T still lied.

Haha since day one ? But a date is nice. They still need to address high speed and well tethering altough why ask when that feature has already been realeased thru this site

The info is out there to enable MMS already without jailbreaking. Literally takes ten minutes of your time.
I think the extra traffic mms will create will be balanced out by the fewer emails sent with pictures attatched. Tethering is another beast altogether... I wouldn't be surprised if they held tht back for a while. But again... The info is out there to enable that as well.

Whoo hoo! It's about freaking time! Thanks for a date!

So AT&T has the power to change when summer end, or they just can't get it together!

that mms hack doesn't work for some people and some iphones...and for some of us that hack actually ended up costing us quite a bit of money in charges from AT&T...I wouldn't recommend it, especially to save three or four weeks...

AT&T should have announced this June 19th instead of waiting a few weeks before the end of Summer (when we're all expecting to get it based on their late summer adverts). AT&T you couldn't make it 1 week earlier - to safely be late summer? Oh well. Still the date of knowing exactly when is very welcomed. I know I will use the feature -

so if I put off paying my bill for a while, then when they call about it being past due, I promise it paid in full by end of summer, then pay it 3 or 4 days after I promised the AT&T rep I'd pay it...we'll be good right?
I mean, we're still cool right AT&T? You'll understand, I'm sure, I had to make sure it was the optimal time to remove that money from my bank account...and my desire to avoid overdraft fees...a more pleasant user experience for both of us, no?

That's funny to watch :) Here in Germany, we have MMS for some years, it's as usual as SMS. Welcome in club, US! ;-)

I hope all the people who were freaking out on the older blog post about this, and saying they were going to return their phones or sue AT&T if they didn't deliver before Sept. 22nd, are going to stand by their word.

After reading many of the post, ATT can't win!! If they had allowed MMS and the network crashed, some would be unhappy. They delayed MMS and tethering to minimize problems until they had upgraded or improved their network. I guess they could have tried to anticipate the iPhone demand and charged everyone more, but still people would be unhappy. No one knew how popular the iPhone would be, not even Apple (have you read about shortages). I bet when MMS, tethering and whatever new feature is available, some won't be happy and ready to jump to Verizon or whoever. Geez ...!!

Does anyone think that a company missing a self-imposed product/feature release deadline is actually grounds for a lawsuit?

We should all MMS the crap out of AT&T on the 25th.
Just to test out the network, of course.

Rogers only has free tethering until the new year so perhaps everyone will start charging extra for data that's already been paid for

So is tethering going live at the same time?

Great article! I've done a few blog articles about similar issues and plenty of free and inexpensive iPhone apps! Some are most popular and others are unique.
Kick Butt

Every iPhone user should send MMS's all at once to see if AT&T networks can handle it.

oh man, this sounds messy already LOL

Every generation of iPhone should have this feature.
I will not be enticed to buy a new iPhone because of software updates.
For me to buy a new phone it must be another leap forward in technology.

We will all have to download the update from iTunes. Remember how the activation experience was for a lot of people back in June and the year before? Probably not the "best possible experience" that AT&T keeps seeking.

Maybe 3.1.1 will be released on the 25? Or maybe just a carrier upgrade via iTunes.

Yea i feel like its 2005 again, oh whats this camera's built into phones? what crazy nonsense will phones be able to do now? Internet? naww.....

A month after I got my iPhone 3g. Fair enough. :-)

Also, I hope they can flip a switch to improve the network capacity as I've not seen anything improve since they announced the 3GS in June. Maybe they have a huge amount of hidden capacity that they holding on to for MMS and on the 25th they'll flip the switch and everything will be a cell phone 3G Utopia! Actual 3G speeds when I have 5 bars rather than spinning and nothing being transferred, forcing me to go to Edge to check email.

I wonder if it will be earlier - Maybe they are under promising and planning to over deliver... which is a great customer service booster. Apple sort of did the same thing with Snow Leopard operating system... Just a thought...
Also after thinking about it - I would much rather get it and it be right verses - get it and it barely work (Verizon did that with the Blackberry Storm - let's just say it was terrible no better yet a horrible experience - and helped me decide to come to iPhone)

I hate how people are complaining so much!! AT&T just Doesnt want any MORE bad reputations from network crashing. AT&T just wants a good user experience. The iPhone is a data HOG! and so many iPhones doesn't help the bandwith problem. So stop complaining if AT&T is a few days late!!!
I don't see people screaming at apple for coming out with rumoured or needed updates or product a few days later than expected or delayed a few months. Jeez...

OMG!! Finally!!

Yes, atleast we know what to expect now. Frist I was just thing like they not care.

Can't wait that long!!!!

My goodness. Just send a frickin' e-mail with a picture or sound file attached. That's like what, 1990s techology? Heck, maybe even 1980s. Still works pretty well. Is MMS really going to make your life better? One would think it is the ultimate game-changing event judged by these posts and so many others I have read. Yikes.

I wonder if AT&T realizes that by delaying the release for 3 days they have opened themselves and Apple up to huge amounts of legally sound lawsuits. How stupid, unless they turn it on sooner. They screwd up the first time, now they can't even keep there "late summer" promise. Damn! When the iPhone becomes available on another network, I'm jumping ship. Not because of poor signal or dropped calls, but because of bad customer sevice. They lied! Plan and simple. They don't value me as a customer. They just don't care. Unless that changes, I'm gone!

I lack confidence. I'll believe it when I see it...

@Sean
remind me never to use you as a lawyer... Well I guess you can, but after it's thrown out of court... YOU CAN'T SUE FOR THAT... Haha

It's been three years of not having MMS with the iPhone. I'm sure waiting a little longer will be worth it. I'm looking to it so that I can send my location, contacts and pictures through text.
I hope iPhone doesn't go to a sucky network like Verizon. I still doubt that it will ever go to other networks but if it does, again, I hope it's not a sucky network.

We suck.

Tethering? Hel-lo?!

We suck more.

Well finally! not having MMS has just killed me.
Some people are trying to stand up for AT&T saying its only a few days after summer. But it's just the fact they not only does AT&T hold US iPhone users back from two big upgrades in MMS & Tethering (which is frustrating enough since especially MMS is not some new premium feature, in their very own network they supply that feature!) But they put a very loose deadline to roll it out "Late summer" Now, they will miss their own deadline that they advertised. Even if its a few days, that's completely unacceptable!
I don't know, maybe since becoming a iPhone user, I've become spoiled and self-centered. But I think not only did they fail to stay on top of things, but also failed to at least keep us informed on the status of these features. But hey, maybe I'm just very nieve and have no idea what I'm talking about. However, AT&T has to be aware that they look stupid for not having these out with everyone else in the world. So they should be very clear why they can't release it. Let us be informed about the unique situation they are in because of this and so I can at least be understanding.
Another thing is... What was it about these features that all the other international carriers could handle... But the once phone monopoly: AT&T, couldn't handle?

Alot of you guys are dicks. Thanks AT&T.

Wow. Ok I'm dumb. I just went straight to the comments and didn't even see the AT&T video... So that answers my questions about communication from AT&T. So scratch that out of my rant. But, why did they send this now? It would have helped so much more to explain that stuff like at least a month ago.
Still don't get why AT&T is the only one that is having this issue..

i can finally mark my calender :D
/very happy

You should have "been on it" the day 3.0 went live.

We suck the most

I think that att should be taught a lesson to not fuck with iphone users....as soon as you get the update that enables the mms on our phones,start sending mms to everyone and everywhere send em often and send them constantly. If all of us do it i am sure we can cause a blackout of the new and improved network. if your reading this att, really shouldnt have messed with the iphone community!@!

absolute bull. I live in Iowa City and the ATT network here is absolutely worthless. Their employees lie out of their teeth. They've been telling customers for the past 3 years that 3G is coming in a couple of months. They have no idea how to service any of their phones and are clueless about their plans. My phone is constantly in SOS mode. CONSTANTLY. I've had three different phones with ATT and multiple SIM cards but SOS is always an issue. If you're in the Iowa City area and are thinking about switching to ATT...DON'T DO IT. You won't be able to use your service half the time.

Yaya(: everyone just chill..you can't do shit about it

that at&t guy is such a dildo

damnit dilldo

For those who are wanting to sue AT&T, was there something in your contract that stated you would recieve all the devices services and did it come out of AT&Ts pr department. It won't hold up, don't waste your money.

AT&T's contract doesn't state that they'll restrict your services if your device is capable and you're paying for the service. My wife and I have a family unlimited texting plan (includes MMS) and my iPhone has the MMS capability already. The only reason MMS doesn't work is because AT&T blocks it when it detects an iPhone on the account. I see this as a breach of contract on AT&T's part as it says nowhere that they will impose an artificial restriction on the device. When my wife and I first bought iPhone 3G we knew there was no MMS because the opine was not capable. As soon as 3.0 came out and the capability was there it should have been available.

All of you complainers are ungrateful ********. AT&T explained why it took so long. If they had released MMS any earlier there would have been problems and, God forbid, you all would be whining and moaning even more than you are now. Be happy that us iPhone users now have a set date. Be happy we're getting it at all. Heck, if I were AT&T I wouldn't think any of you naysayers were worthy of MMS.

What's the difference between sending an MMS and sending a picture in an email that took so long to come out. Tethering is completely different since it will use a lot more bandwidth, but why was this amazing device not able to support something that has been around for several years now on day one? I'm not trying to come across as a jerk or anything I really don't understand. I also don't understand why messaging isn't just built into the data plan though other than the business side of it.

ON SEPTEMBER 26 ALL IPHONE USERS SEND A MMS AT 3:00pm EST 12:00 PST SEE IF ATT CAN HANDLE IT PAST THIS ON.. POST THIS ON TWITTER,FACEBOOK MYSPACE OR TWITTER ME.. @Yojoseph if. You will do this

Sorry ATT, I'm calling bullshiiite on this. Sending an MMS message might only take a few seconds on 3G or a minute or two on Edge. Now. What uses more bandwidth on the wireless spectrum: Safari, InternetRadiobox, or mms messaging? So how come Safari was able to be used from day one, but not mms? It goes over the very same wireless spectrum, does it not?
And how can tethering use more bandwitdth? The available bandwidth is the same, be it on a laptop or a cell phone. And since the bandwidth is being used by the iPhone and not the laptop, then the bandwidth usage would be the same, would it not? Just the online time via tethering would be greater, right? It is still using the same bandwidth.
So. ATT, please come up with new excuses. Please?

We sort of suck because we don't have the iPhone

We're also sort of scare of WiFi and GPS (ohnoz!).

AT&T 2 group up with apple iPhone until 2 more yrs.. Cool becuse verizon has to get ready..

@Anthony
yeah, sounds great, because as a friend I want to get a bunch of stupid pics and videos that mean nothing to me, just to teach some company a "lesson".
Here's a thought, back away from the keyboard, take a deep breath and count to ten slowly. You should start to feel your rage and hatred slowly disappear. Finish by going to your happy place. Then, lesson learned, it's better to think and act with reason and rational than with stupidity.

don't uderstand. already have mms on my iphone

I think it's horse shit that I have to upgrade to 3g or 3gs to have mms, they can't tell me that someone is not smart enough to figure it out on the 2g.. Boo to all of them and I will stick with what I have and jailbreak it.. So screw you apple and at&turd

You people crack me up. You whine more than a whipple blower pushing 20psi of boost!!!!!

I think it's odd that MMS was already accessible in Germany on the iPhone 3G and 3Gs. So coming back to the states and finding my little camera option on my text messaging gone kinda bummed me out. PS the iphone is owned by the cell phone companies in Europe so getting my 3G 16GB for 3 euros and then my 32GB 3Gs for 40 Euros was awesome. Ah well I am glad to hear that my MMS application will be back at the end of the month

About time. Well that's one down and one to go. Tethering ur next.

Ahh I can't wait..Ima send my gf pics all day(:

Why is it that AT&T requires us to download a software update, where as the rest of the world had MMS right from the iPhone 3.0 OS firmware update months ago. Is AT&T going to give us something special that the rest of the world doesn't have?

OMG!! The ability to send MMS messages makes my heart jump with joy :-) my life can be full again...sorta-still need the tethering capability.

My iPhone doesn't work on the AT&T network! Join the facebook protest: http://tinyurl.com/nl8n5n

I am very excited to see this FINALLY coming to the iPhone. AT&T is crap and the iPhone is the only reason why I have them. I can not believe they made us wait for MMS when everyone all over the flipping world is able to use this ability and tethering!
Now I hear ATT is going to charge for tethering, I don't know why I am surprised, they charge for everything.
It is about time AT&T and I think someone should SUE YOU for making us wait! Everything better work PERFECTLY or I am going to be very disappointed.

Have just updated my 3GS to system 3.1.
Still NO MMS.
Sincerely.

Tethering is not available? I have been using my iPhone for Internet access at my house for about a month now. Not unlocked or jailbroken.

ok so Version 3.1 came out yesterday, downloaded if from Itunes still no MMS....but then again its not Sept 25th...still waiting

I can not figure out how to get my verizon email contact list onto the iphone. I can't bring it up on the phone but I can anywhere else when remotely accessing ???
Anyone know ?

Ok....next item on the agenda... When will we be able to use our ringtones we buy from iTunes for our new mms feature?????
Why can't apple add this on the update???
Please allow us to use our created ringtones from iTunes as our text messaging ringtone instead of the handful of lame ones that are currently allowed!!!! Pretty please

When will there be a family data plan? And how about fixing those echoing phone calls where you have to hear yourself regurgitate everything you just said? I think we pay enough money to not have that! And we pay enough to deserve a family data plan! I can't believe how much I pay for mine!

why can't the iphone 3g/3gs be just as capable as the g1. yeah, it's prolly the best smartphone out there, but the g1 let's you do absolutely anything with it and htc won't brick your phone. (atleast not that i've heard anyways.) i love my iphone 3gs, it's the best phone i got, but i missed the capabilities the g1 has. if there was a smart phone as beast as the iphone 3gs with the same amount of free reign the g1 has, i would pay just about anything for it.

oh man...I can't wait until Verizon gets the iphone! I love my BB Storm but I just want to shove it in all the 3GS users who are walking around my area on Edge!!! haha...

So anyone know why my tethering feature went away rondomly I have the Ben hack thing and about 2pm it's gone on my phone delete the profile and reinstall it it is still gone? Any ideas?

Yeah..."the bottom line is we hear you and we're on it." um, how about you say this "the bottom line is, we hear you and we're SORRY!!" am I the only one who's outright pissed that I've been paying for something I'm NOT getting for OVER A YEAR?! $&@! AT&T!!!

Finally. When I send a picture, I want them to see it right then. Not wait til later. Apple, you really fucked up. I have been with AT&T for 10 years now. Once the iPhone is on another carrier, I am gone

You spelled excited wrong...fyi

Hi Att. Thanks for quelling everyone's burning frustration and wonderment now that Fall has begun and it's well past your "later in summer" announcement. Interesting video... I especially enjoyed the completely dishonest statement explaining that the reason for the delay is so that you can get your network ready. Really?! Hmm, that's funny, because you've been in bed with Apple for the last 2 years. You knew the new OS had MMS in it and yet you still couldn't get your act together?. That's a pretty difficult one to swallow! It's also funny how every other network provider in the world was able to actuate it except for you, the "best 3g network" in the biz. You guys are so full of malarkey. If only Apple had been able to work out the deal with Verizon... Tell me, how does it feel to be sloppy second?

I agree lets all send mms on the 25 for the whole day. That would be a way to protest against att.

First of all, most of you have had this conversation: Someone shows you some REALLY funny picture on their mobile phone. You make the mistake of openly admiring the picture, and the next thing you know, you're hearing the dreaded phrase AGAIN... "Oh, I'll send you the picture.". Then comes the embarassing discussion about why the most advanced multimedia phone on the planet cannot receive mms text messages. Embarrassing is an understatement.
Someone earlier said "welcome to the 21st century...". I say "Welcome to the 20th century.". MMS is really an antiquated communications technology.
Ultimately, the responsibility for this silliness falls on Apple's shoulders. There is no law that says AT&T had to be THE carrier for the iPhone. Further, there is no law that says there can be only one carrier for the iPhone. Finally, even though it does not affect me as I have a 3gs, how retarded must we be to believe that the old 2g iPhones couldn't participate in the MMS party??? That's crazy! I'd be willing to bet that there are plenty of 2g users out there who'd be more than willing to pay extra for mms texting.
No, Apple is responsible for ALL of this stupid mess. Way to go Apple! Greed above functionality!

I love how everyone is complaining about not having MMS, also for having to pay for it for all this time. I have not seen any extra charges on my bill regarding MMS fees, so I don't get what your trying to prove. Also, I thought the video was an apology anyway, because they say they have been working in this for quite some time now. And do the person that said that they should have been working on the networks sooner, AT&T has many many smart phones on their network, not just the iPhone. I know hundreds of people that use blackberries and palms. They take over alot of the 3G too. Remember people, these kind of things cost money, and how much people do you think are going to be sending a picture on Sept. 25th? They had to buy whole new equipment just to support 1 phone. I think you guys complaining need to think more into how much they have to spend on us customers, then what you "need".

wow people. chill. we've been able to send pictures on the iphone this whole time. through our email to others texting set up. mms will make it easier, and i cant wait for that. some people getting way out of hand with this stuff. if you have such a problem with AT&T or Apple or the iphone.. then DONT have an iphone!!

woah, okay! so one day leftttt. anyone know how to use it? & i was checking some other sites online they live in the us, and have at&t and can send and recieve picturesss. anyone know how thats possible? if anyone knows how to make sure that it works or knows how to use it comment me back!

N00DZ lol all i can say is thank god i dont have to txt back when i get a multimedia notification and say "hey mind sending it again, but this time to my email" haha hope everyone enjoys

its sept 25th nothing happend yet...

Okay, so its september 25th now, and how do we get this update? do we plug our phones in like always for a firmware update or whats goin on here?
waitingggggg lol

WTF! what's going on i try to update my phone but it's not letting me its saying its already updated and that the next time i can do it is on oct 2. did they change the date or what? some one piz help me?

Supposedly east coast- 2 or 3 pm and west coast 11-12.

As of 105pm central massachusetts I got the new mms update. And yes it was the carrier AtAt , it'll say updating by carrier and takes 5 seconds to update , then just reset or turn on off on again. Mms :)

Ya! i got my MMS now. and what mike said it right and just to tell you all i live in Maryland right near Washington DC

So here in Oregon I and some friends have all updated this morning yet still can't send or receive pics via texting. Did we all miss something? Do something wrong?

Hell yeah people that's what I'm talking about and it's working just fine!

Okay, fixed problem. You have to update carrier setting in itunes not just download upgrade. Sheesh.

"Update carrier settings" Yep, it took 5 seconds...the first 3 pic texts I tried to send hung up atabout 90% and I got an error message to try again....maybe everyone is tryig it out at the same time?? I'm sitting across from a friend with an iphone whom I sent a test text with pic to (it finally, sluggishly, sent....) but it's 5 minutes later and she STILL has not received the text....hmmmmm....

I am so excited! This was a case of 'not appreciating what you have until its taken away' and then having to wait over two years to get it back! Ridiculous. I had downloaded the carrier update this morning and have been sending MMS all day here in San Diego, CA :) Happy Sept 25th!

I do not have the upgrade still...idk what's going on.. im updating my itunes so hopefully that helps. How do you update carrier settings??

Reboot your iphone after the update.

Pic/Audio Text, plus my area went 3G all in the same week....Christmas came early...

i downloaded it, i see the new changes in my text app, but my pics don't go through:-( It looks like its sending, but then i get the red exclamation point.

Now that I upgraded to get mms capability, I'm having a lot of difficulty with my iPhone simply not coming on. Most times, I have to reboot, and even then, it doesn't always come on. Anyone else having this issue? Very frustrating!

Brent, I have had the exact same problem. Rebooting has always fixed my problem, but let's face it we shouldn't have to do this. By paying approx $100 a month for data / texting / and 450 Iphone any time minutes, I shouldn't have to do this, and frankly tethering should be included as a part of this monthly charge. After I finish my 2 year contract in June 2010, I will seriously look at other options.