We're surprised, then, that AT&T appears to have brought MMS to the iPhone earlier than expected: a September 25th launch date had been established previously. The news, originally reported on Mediaite (by way of Consumerist) and now confirmed by a flurry of Tweets, will be a welcome gift to those users who felt AT&T was dragging its feet on the functionality.
As we wrote on September 3rd:
AT&T has announced that on September 25, it will roll out a software update that finally adds support for MMS messages for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS customers.
One of the longstanding complaints from iPhone customers has been the lack of MMS support. For a revolutionary phone, you'd think such a standard would be readily supported. Although Apple added MMS support in its 3.0 software (see our guide) in June, the one caveat was "if your carrier supports it."
AT&T cites projected data usage as part of the reason for the delay.
What we're unsure of is which users are getting access first: let us know in the comments if you have MMS on your iPhone yet.
