Even though iPhone OS 3.0 will be out Wednesday and provides support for MMS and tethering, AT&T won't have either of these ready this week. No, AT&T will have MMS ready "later this summer", and no official word on tethering.
While this fiasco may seem to make AT&T look bad to many iPhone users, at least they won't be charging extra for MMS once it is ready. Those that already have a text messaging bundle will not be charged any extra fees to send and receive MMS. MMS will just be another message taken out of the allowed allotment of your plan (unless you go unlimited).
So there is no concern anymore for those that thought there will be insane fees in addition to regular text messaging. If one does not have a text plan, then the MMS will cost money, but it shouldn't be more than the standard pay-per-message for all other phones.
bstossel
June 23, 2009 at 2:24pm
Okay, so I know the AT&T "Service" part isn't ready...but Apple has it smeared on their website that 3.0 has the new picture mail capability on both 3G and 3G S. After down...no feature. Perhaps either AT&T should step it up or Apple should shut the hell up and stop making promises that neither company can deliver on. Picture mail is one of the main reasons I have unlimited texting...2 kids and not about to carry more cameras/video cams everywhere we go.
Maybe Apple should just create a cell company for the iPhone...no need to partner with other cell company's. Just iPhone Cellular. Then we can avoid the "who do I blame" problem and know it will always be Apple's fault. HMPH=(
Quayzar
June 16, 2009 at 3:54pm
So AT&T is not going to charge extra for something they don't charge extra for on any other phone. I know they could have but if they did I would actually leave AT&T on principle for that. I mean $5 a month for 200 text is already high considering it's free money to AT&T much less paying even more for something that could only partially justify the price.
In any case AT&T might be using this to try to drum up support but I will feel the same about them tomorrow that I did yesterday for hearing it. It's a shame really because I used to support Apple's decision to go with AT&T but now it seems that even Apple is not even sure. Hey it still beats Rogers doesn't it?.. At least at price?.. Right?
