After we whispered that AT&T might be requiring messaging plans when you purchase select feature phones, we were hit up by a flood of connects. Long story short, it’s true, and here’s the break down:

• Phones that require a messaging plan at time of purchase include: Pantech Reveal, Pantech Impact, Motorola Karma, Samsung Flight, Samsung Impression, Samsung Magnet, Samsung Solstice, Samsung Mythic, Samsung Propel, LG Xenon, LG Neon, and the LG Vu.
• It looks like the minimum monthly cost when buying a “Quick Messaging” phone is around $20. That’s a $5 200 SMS/MMS plan and a $15/month unlimited data plan. It doesn’t look like you can walk out of the door without paying less than $20/mo in features in addition to your Read the full story

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MuscleNerd has announced a few CommCenter hacks which enable iPhone 2G MMS and iPhone 3G/3GS tethering.

iPhone 2G owners can enable native MMS with a patch by Wh1terat and geniusan. This procedure will modify your CommCenter and as such is quite dangerous. Only advanced users should attempt the steps found here.

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Let’s be clear upfront that this isn’t for the casual iPhone jailbreaker, but if you feeling like living on the edge, you can give your original model an added boost of MMS capability, or any device with OS 3.1.2 the power to tether. Highlighted in a series of tweets today by iPhone dev team lead MuscleNerd, whiterat (for MMS) and two-bit (for tethering) will get the job done, but both require tinkering with the baseband, which is exponentially more advanced and brick-inducing than, say, Read the full story

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It all started with an iPhone-borne MMS video of a Kirby plush toy that I tried to send. You see, I don’t have a 510 number — that AT&T mobile number belongs to a friendly gentleman living in Fremont, CA, about 40 miles from where I reside — but that didn’t stop the message from going through the airwaves with his number listed as sender. Confused? Yeah, so are we, and a quick look through various forums say we’re not alone. We’ve contacted AT&T for more information, but in the Read the full story

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Apple class-action lawsuit, case file #23423: A Minnesota iPhone owner joined a class-action lawsuit to punish Apple and AT&T for failing to provide MMS by “late summer” as promised. Evidence: MMS came out post-Labor-Day, which is officially autumn. The horror!

Kyle Irving of Minneapolis was told he would have MMS when he purchased his iPhone in late June, yet it took another two months to arrive, which surely is a crime heinous enough to warrant yet another go-nowhere class-action lawsuit. The Minnesota suit will be grouped with similar suits from other states, though it’s not clear exactly how much money in damages is being sought.

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The AT&T iPhone update to enable MMS just hit for us, so check your iTunes to see if you have it too. Just plug in your iPhone and hit the “Check for Update” button.

any people are saying that the update runs fine, but they don’t get the MMS button right after they update. To enable it, you’ll have to reboot, so do that now. It would have been nice if the update automatically rebooted your phone, to save a lot of people confusion, but at least MMS is here!

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