iPhone MMS Debuts Friday: Can’t Wait or Couldn’t Care Less?

Nicole Martinelli ()

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AT&T announced via its Facebook page that you will be able to send MMS from your device, sometime Friday.  (Rather coyly, the message says “Late morning, Pacific Time.”)

You’ll have to download the carrier settings update (.ipcc) from iTunes before you can start clogging up the network with multimedia messages, though. The FB page will disclose all details when MMS launches.

Meh. The first gen Nokia smartphone I’ve got has MMS, I’ve probably used it less than five times in about three years.

So are you counting the seconds or couldn’t care less about MMS?

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And, more importantly, what are you going to send and to whom?

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  • http://www.chirho.co.uk Scott

    Had MMS for 4months here in the UK. It’s just a bog standard feature.

  • Bob

    Today is Thursday, not Friday. :)

  • mzvxb

    Meh! Im having the reaction of when I found out the truth behind the movie “the blair witch project” having not seen it. Meh!

  • Colin

    I think that this should have been launched years ago. Although that is what everyone has said or at least thought, I am glad the phone that revolutionized phones is being updated to most of the other cell phone “Standards”. I will use it on occasion instead of emailing pics I will just send them to friends via MMS. Another thing that will be convienent is when a non iphone using friend sends an MMS pic to me it will not make me log into a website with a very convoluted username and PW to retrieve the picture. Thank god AT&T is upgrading this!

  • http://www.zoomata.com Nicole Martinelli

    Bob — ugh, tx. Getting ahead of myself. Fixed.

  • simon

    We’ve had MMS here in the UK on all of our networks for about 4-5 years now – what is wrong with your networks in the US?

    By the way, MMS isn’t that amazing – it’s pretty much SMS + AV attachements and was intended to be a rich email-type experience that you’d pay your network per MMS for – ker-ching!

    However iPhone has email + pics anyway so you don’t really need this unless you really really really MUST send images to your friends phones right that moment instead of emailing or uploading the image to Facebook etc.

    Well done anyway AT&T, except that you’re years late with this…

  • TB-1599

    It will be a nice feature to have. I like to send pics of my son to my family on the east coast.

  • Ron

    I don’t care about the mms that much. It will be nice to be able to send one if I want to. I am sure most people will send a bunch for the next week and then go back to never using it. I just think that things like this just give people something to complain about. After this is done they will find something else to not like. The iPhone is still a great device with or without mms.

  • -Vince

    I only care if someone can make it work on my first gen iPhone. And even then… not much.

    It sure would be nice to have a feature on my $300 phone that is on the 5 year old $0.99 freebie that it replaced.

  • Mister Mike

    I’m glad to see this is finally arriving, but it speaks volumes about AT&T that MMS–a basic feature of virtually every other mobile device in the U.S.–is just now arriving.

    Dropped and missed calls, disappearing 3G signals, huge dead spots . . . all of this in the metro Chicago area. Sorry, but AT&T has really dropped the ball in handling its iPhone users.

  • Shane

    Meh!

  • Joey

    How can anyone get excited about MMS when it has been around for over 10 years? AT&T and Apple suck, BIG TIME! This is pathetic! Sept 2009 and the iPhone finally gets MMS! Big effin deal!

  • Dave

    I can’t wait till I’m not frustrated that my iphone does not have MMS anymore. I’ve been using MMS for years on other phones with Sprint. By the way, all this time that’s passed, viewmymessage.com was the best idea you could come up with? haha

  • Justin

    I’m not that much of a sender, but it will be great to not have to go through that viewmymessage.com bull crap every time I get one.

  • firesign3000

    i’m not really that excited about it. the only nice thing will be when non-techy non-smartphone owning friends send me mms pics i won’t have to use at&t’s ridiculous web retrieval thing on my iphone anymore.
    simon: there has been mms in the u.s. for years too on all carriers. this was specifically an apple (until iphone os 3) and at&t delay on the iphone. and yes, we have email w/ attachments on the iphone. difference is there are still many many peole who do not have smartphones and do not have email on their mobiles, so the ability to send a them a quick pic is nice.

  • http://www.uncensoredrants.com Ranter

    While I’m not overly excited about having MMS, not having it is a pain in the backside. Not because I feel the need to send picture messages all over the place, but because the rest of the modern world has the ability to send MMS messages and they don’t understand why it’s such a pain for the much-heralded iPhone to get those messages through the AT&T website.

    As for the first MMS I plan to send… probably a middle-finger shot to the president of AT&T.

  • indi

    I am looking forward to this. My wife likes to send pictures and audio from my daughters school choir performances. This will make it easier. My daughter likes to send pictures of what she is doing or what the dog and cat are doing, etc. Her phone has MMS but no data plan for email, so this is a function we will definitely use. Yes, there are workarounds, but simple is better.

  • Ed

    AT&T is always late! late summer, late friday… now you try to make a late payment and see their reaction!!! LOL

  • Patrick

    I agree.. meh.

  • makan

    AT&T sucks. Apple, OTOH, has had MMS available since the 3GS dropped in parts of the world where their carriers would support it.

    Now when AT&T and Apple suck is when you are out of contract with your iPhone, they STILL won’t unlock your iPhone, thus forcing you to jailbreak it…

  • http://thewillseys.us/scott/blog Scott

    Do not care whatsoever. All the people who did care probably only cared because it was something they were promised but couldn’t have. Once they get it, they won’t care either.

    Fer real.

  • http://www.mathewballard.com Mathew Ballard

    Couldn’t careless. Won’t be using it.

  • http://www.grinningidiot.com JAYnLA

    I’m primarily excited that this much belated (but nonetheless ballyhooed) service addition makes AT&T look bad. Because they are bad. So I prefer that they look that way.