Update : AT&T has tell us that an MMS message will be treated like an MS is today , from which we presume it mean that if you grease one’s palms a 200 message clique , they ’re essentially interchangeable . However , the language is still a bit vague , so expect more details in the future .
Good news , everyone : it sounds like you could take a ( legal brief ) fall apart from throwing darts at AT&T ’s logotype and exposure of its various executive . Thanks to a new FAQ from the attack aircraft carrier that focuses on iPhone 3 deoxyguanosine monophosphate S and some of iPhone OS 3.0 ’s new features , we have a piddling more entropy on what to require when MMS goes live later this summertime .
ThisAT&T iPhone 3 G S FAQ(PDF data link ) covers various look of the iPhone 3 gigabyte S launching this week , including availability , whether you should pre - ordering , and how to care FamilyTalk architectural plan shuffling . AT&T also vaguely confirms that tether is coming “ in the future . ” But on the second Thomas Nelson Page , it even tosses grumpy iPhone 3 G and soon - to - be 3 G S owners ( commend : the original iPhone ca n’t do MMS for some unknown reason ) a bone with this financial statement :
Later this summertime , as part of the 3.0 software package , AT&T will make multimedia messaging ( MMS ) availableat no extra costto customers with a textbook messaging parcel . [ emphasis added ]
That ’s right : once AT&T is quick for all the MMSes that iPhone owners will undoubtedly clog up the tube with , there will be no additional fee — as long as you already have a texting computer software , which presently commence at $ 5 per month for 200 text messages .
We are n’t certain , however , as to whether MMS will be counted differently from regular schoolbook messages . For example , O2 in the UK counts each MMS as four SMS messages . AT&T did not respond toMacworld’srequest for clarification on these detail , so we hope the postman shed light on us all by the time it flips the switch later this summertime .
AT&T do under fire last hebdomad after Apple unveiled its iPhone 3 G S / iPhone 3.0 plans when it became plain that support for MMS and tethering would not be available when the 3.0 software system update go far this Wednesday . The ship’s company has also taken critique in respect to the upgrade pricing strategy for iPhone 3 G S.
