Finally, but do I really care?
AT&T announced yesterday that MMS will be available for US iPhone customers on September 25th. On that day, a software update will be released that will enable the feature.
What is MMS anyway you ask? MMS stands for Multimedia Message Service, and is an upgrade to SMS (Short Message Service). Both are ways to send messages between compatible cell phones. In short, SMS is text messaging, MMS is the ability to send text, video, pictures, audio clips etc between cell phones.
I’m old enough to have largely missed the text message boom, so I’m not all that excited about this. That said, the fact that AT&T couldn’t get their act together to coordinate this with the release of the 3GS months ago is borderline criminal. There are a couple of lawsuits against AT&T regarding the false advertising that went along with the release of the 3GS that I’m sure will go nowhere, but make a good point. If you are the exclusive vendor for arguably the most popular cell phone in history, you owe it to your handcuffed customers to have your network in order before the phone is released, especially since the phone was heavily advertised as being able to handle MMS.
Good news for MMS users, but an embarrassment for AT&T.
