Even though some people have already had their MMS capabilities
activated by AT&T, leading to speculation the carrier would
slow-roll out the feature to avoid network strain, the Friday,
September 25th date is holding firm.
In order to prepare users who may have been living under a rock,
AT&T has been sending out free text messages reading 'Picture &
video messaging (MMS) will be
available for iPhone on 9/25. While we prepare
your account for MMS capability, the current "view my message"
experience will be turned off but your ability to send and receive text
messages will not be affected.'
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For those of you who missed your chance to pick up your message at
www.viewmymessages.com, that service has been disabled. Whether or not
existing MMS messages will be retrievable after Friday's activation
date is still unclear.
While users were understandably impatient, Apple's release of the 3.0
OS brought with it several app tweaks that have paved the way for MMS.
The final switch, though, still had to be thrown at the carrier end.
Many users, eager to have the feature and alerted to a workaround, used
a carrier file update that proved to suffer its own host of troubles.
While Apple's European iPhone partners have had MMS for some time, in two days their American counterparts will join them.
allplatform
September 24, 2009 at 8:45am
Tried last night, hoping for no more exclamation points. My first message was sent! Then I thought about how pathetic it was that I was so excited for a service everyone without an iPhone has had for years!
homemaderobot
September 24, 2009 at 5:37am
Apparently viewmymessages.com has been down longer than that. I found out recently that friends had be sending me picture messages for the past 2 months and I didn't even receive the standard "go to" message.
I just hope that this activation process on Friday doesn't cripple my phone.
