um ok

Wow such a revolutionary feature they are implementing

I think people would more likely say "two years late" than "two weeks early".

For a $650 phone and $94 monthly charge, it's about time. But hey, at least we finally got cut and paste.

@Bitter_Old_Punk:
$650? Where did you buy your phone, one of those electronics stores in Times Square?

@Esquire99: Sorry typo $550 after tax.

@Bitter_Old_Punk: Still, $550? Assuming you're in the U.S., it's $199 max with contract. I bought mine new off eBay without a contract, and it still cost me less much, much than that.

How can you test your own phone?

@supercereal: The original iPhone retailed for $550. Not everyone switched to a 3G or 3GS.

And what good is MMS on AT&T's broken infrastructure? It took 4 hours for a voicemail to reach me yesterday, and I'm regularly dropping calls with 3 or 4 bars.

Please, Apple, kill this miserable exclusive relationship with AT&T and spread the business around so that the cell companies can keep up with usage.

@scoobydoo: If they're still on an original, they ain't getting MMS anyhow.

I can tell you in upstate NY it hasn't rolled out yet. I had to use that stupid "viewmymessage" webpage once again this morning.

If Spudland gets anything before The Golden State, I'm gonna slice a b*tch.

@Trai_Dep: That's Mister Spudland to you, buddy.

@jacques: Which makes it all that much worse. I've still got an el-cheapo phone that came out before the first iPhone that can do MMS.

There's a misspelling in this article - the title should read "MMS for iPhone Rollout Begins 2 Years Late."

@katstermonster: Damn, I missed the earlier comment to this effect. Oooooh well.

@Trai_Dep: Careful those Idaho folks are all polite and well armed.

Hey, noone has forced you to buy an iphone. There are plenty of alternatives, each with their positives and negatives. Remember that each phone is at heart...a luxury.

That being said, my iphone plan has been grandfathered since time began - we've got our lines for $10 each, and whatever unlimited data costs and a family unlimited text plan that literally costs us maybe $3 each/month. That's for three phones.

I can wait for MMS to roll out, I'm in no hurry. But it better work once I do get it.

You mean 3 months late.

What does the icon look like if you are one of the lucky ones to get it?

@seamer:
We don't have landlines and both have to use our phones for business so it really isn't a "luxury" but a necessity.

@PhilFR: FWIW, my AT&T service here (northern NJ) is much better than the Sprint service I had before it, and actually is no worse than the Verizon service I had before Sprint -- I continue to have one or two dead zones in my general area, but they're in different locations than the ones I had with VZ.

@Lorelei714: It's not an icon - there's a little camera in your SMS interface.

@seamer: Noone did force me to buy an iPhone. That ass.
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Ho hum. Maybe when AT&T decides to put the text messaging back in the iPhone plane I will stop blocking text messages so that this actually means something to me. I just refuse to pay $5+ a month for something that costs AT&T virtually nothing to provide.

@Ilovemygeek: My point was there are a lot of other phones that do the same, or better (and some worse) things than the iphone. Google's Android is an upcoming product, along with Palm's Pre device. T-Mobile has launched their myphone product too.

The iphone is a luxury.

@barty: Well, it costs "virtually nothing" for you to work, yet you want to be paid for that.

@seamer:
@ilovemygeek,

seamer's point is that you didn't need to buy an iPhone if you MMS was somehow a "necessity" to your business or life. Plenty of other phones out there have had that feature (which I have no use for, personally).

More like 9 years, 10 months late.

@bkdlays: It's no wonder that Apple is a leader in the computer and cellphone industries! They provide great products with great features at a great value!

Sarcasm aside, I love my iPod Classic. I wish Rockbox was compatible, tho.

remember that ATT is assuming that MMS won't be a 'once in a while' used feature. they are betting that from now on, all messages sent from iphones will be MMS, not SMS. yes it's probably overkill to assume this. however, if they don't and that is what happens, it could actually kill their crappy networks and then they get even more complaints. so they assume and prepare for the worst.

that said, remember last year when the forced activation at purchase started and ATT said they were ready. they were not. the whole thing came down within like 3 hours and at start of business on the West Coast, you couldn't get a phone activated.

rolling it out a bit at a time gives them a way to monitor things so when the big day comes and everyone else is (they believe) slamming the system at once, it doesn't all come crashing down. this is probably the only smart thing they have done.

as for the end of the contract, I agree. when it ends, it should end. no extensions. but Apple should NOT sign up with someone else. no making a Verizon/Sprint friendly phone to go on a contract with them. they should be allowed to stay on the path they are on and leave it up to the carriers to make appropriate adjustments. and when and if they do, they are welcome to pick up the iphone on whatever rules they wish. give a subsidy, or not, on the calendar they wish, rates they wish etc. Even just a battle between ATT and T-Mobile is good for us because they will keep improving coverage and cutting rates to hook folks in and keep them in.

@scoobydoo: Um, no.
Orig Iphone was $500 and $600 + tax, they dropped the price by $200 a few months after release, and gave everyone a $100 apple gift card.

I have had mms for a while now... On tmobile with my iphone!!

@MooseOfReason:

Worst. Analogy. Ever.

Providing ~8-10 hours of labor 5-7 days a week and comparing that to a cell phone company switching on a flag or opt code is like comparing apples to trains.

@jacques: Not true. I still have the original iPhone and I now have MMS.

ask google your question

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Not on mine yet. Agree with all the above "you mean two years late" comments.

@Trai_Dep: I'm in Cali and it's working for me. I think it's nationwide.

@Saisu Mimen: You want money to pay for food, clothing and shelter. They want money to pay their workers, research and development, and infrastructure.