MMS on iPhone for AT&T, system limitation or clever marketing?

November 16, 2009 · Filed Under Mobil Lifestyle, Mobile Phone Service, Mobile Phones, mobile lifestyle · Comment 

For those of you who have an iPhone, you may have experience a great deal of struggle because it does not support MMS (i.e. Picture text messaging), at least until now. As of September 2009, the new iPhone was released with MMS. For the first time in its lifecycle, owning an iPhone means you have complete features that you would expect from a smartphone. Anyhow, there were many speculations concerning the reasons why it did not have this feature in the original release.

In our estimation, this was a smart marketing move for AT&T because it required that you get a data plan even if you don’t want to use any of the data features. With traditional mobile cell phones (smart phones included), you can get talk, text, and picture messaging without having to get a data plan. How is it then that it was “not possible,” until now, with the iPhone? With this “limitation”, if you got the iPhone, you had to get the data plan which cost you at least an extra $30/month. That’s pretty clever if you ask me. Please don’t be mistaken, we are not saying that there are not legitimate strain on the network with data usage. On the contrary, the following may or may not be a bunch of bull, but it did help a little to alleviate the discussion.

This is not our opinion, but direct from the folks at AT&T. I guess you can be the judge on the matter. If nothing else, this video does a great job simplifying how cell phone work for those who are not so tech savvy. What do you think, please drop us a comment?

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