The breaking news of today is that the most awaited MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) on iPhone finally goes live on AT&T. MMS allows users to send graphics, audio clips, locations, contacts, and video clips via an SMS-like messaging system on their iPhones.It has been found out that MMS is not very popular on other phone devices but iPhone users tend to make more use of multimedia features as compare to others.
How to get it?
To prepare for the iPhone MMS update, download iTunes 9.0.1 and make sure your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS is using iPhone 3.1 firmware. If you have iPhone 2G or 1G, it will not be able to get the MMS update. For more details see below
Stepwise procedure:
(1) Download iTunes 9.0.1 if you don’t already have it on your computer.
(2) Connect your iPhone to your computer then open iTunes
(3) When the MMS update is available, you will see a message asking you if you want to install and update to your carrier settings- click Update Settings
(4) iTunes will then inform you that your settings have been updated. CLick OK in the message
(5) Reboot your iPhone by powering it off and then on again. MMS is now enabled.
When is it actually going live?
AT&T has started the service across U.S today in which text messages will be send, beginning at 10 am Eastern. Let’s see how people respond to this new service. Will the heavy traffic of iPhone owners crash the service? For all this and more, we would have to wait and see..Stay tuned to Biggtech!
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