Girls Gone Gadget

The iPhone owners in the US have won one more battle with controlling carrier AT&T! Today, as promised, AT&T released the iPhone update enabling MMS.

What is MMS? MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service, is an upgraded version of Short Messaging Service, SMS. SMS allows you to send and receive text messages from your phone. MMS allows you to send and receive text, photos, audio, video, etc.

Why is MMS so important? Really, it isn’t. Not with things such as Twitter and Facebook around. But, it is nice if you want to quickly send an image to just one person. Sure, you can do that in Twitter and Facebook but MMS just makes it a few steps easier and faster.

The downfall, of course, is that the person you are sending the MMS to, the recipient, also needs to have a MMS enabled phone.

Anyhow, back to AT&T and the iPhone update. If you have an iPhone 3G or 3GS and want to check to see if your area has enabled MMS, simply plug your iPhone into your computer, open up iTunes and check for an update. Note: If you do not have an update available just check back in a few hours as your area may not be enabled yet.

After your phone has been updated you may need to restart your phone. I had to do this to get my phone to recognize the MMS. If your MMS Still isn’t working, go into your iPhone Settings, click on Messaging, and make sure your MMS Messaging is turned ON.

Great! Now you’re ready. When you go to your Messaging you’ll notice a cute little camera icon next to your message box. When you click on that you’ll have the option to take a photo or choose an existing photo from your iPhone photo library. Voila! You’re a MMS maniac now!