RSSNew beta of iPhone 3.1 SDK shows signs of life for MMS on AT&T
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published July 1, 2009, 1:16 PM
Registered developers who log onto the Apple Dev Center this morning are being given an interesting little message (and 9to5Mac.com has a screenshot): With the iPhone 3.0 SDK having just been released, the first beta of the version 3.1 SDK began distribution last night.
Perhaps topmost on the list of iPhone 3.1 features that developers have been searching for, but were denied with the 3.0 release, is evidence that instant messages may at last include MMS. This blogger shows screenshots of images that can be cut-and-pasted to the text entry line, which implies that they can be sent using MMS protocol...at some point. AT&T has not enabled that protocol over its network yet, though the carrier is saying it will enable that feature this summer.
Second on developers' lists of most heralded 3.1 features today has to do with video editing. Apparently iPhone users who made clips and changes to the videos they'd just shot with their on-board cameras, had no other option but to save those changes over their original videos. That changes with 3.1, as developers have located the new "Save As Copy" button, enabling "non-destructive video editing."
And maybe a close third will be the ability for Bluetooth users to issue voice commands to the iPhone -- a feature that competitive phones have had for years.
One of the iPhone's most heralded development teams, the "Dev-Team," is the group that provides tools that break AT&T's and Apple's lock over the iPhone content, letting independents put whatever they want on their phones. This morning, the Dev-Team blog posted a warning saying that developers who try the 3.1 SDK beta may not have all the advantages of their unlocking tools.
"ultrasn0w users must stay away from any firmware updates past 3.0 (including today's 3.1 beta) until we release the tools that let you update the firmware without updating the baseband," the team writes. "For most phones out there, baseband updates are irreversible and you'll lose ultrasn0w."
My brand new 32gb 3g s was giving me problems anytime i would plug in my charger, the screen would flash and go crazy. I did not want to wait for a new phone from apple so i found the website i linked to my name above and got Apple developers account access and installed 3.1 beta and this fixed my problem. hope that helps someone else.
http://activateiphone.net
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|Living in Sweden, my MMS worked after I activated it on my servers website. Works great.
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|I allready have MMS working on my Iphone 3gs =) but i've errruhmmm "tweaked" my phone without jailbreaking to get it to work, not to mention I tricked the AT&T servers into thinking its not an Iphone =) Love being good at my thing =)
AT&T is preventing MMS AND Tethering because the average user of an Iphone uses about 400mbs of bandwith a month where the average OTHER phone user is less than 200. There afraid there network is going to take a big fat POOP if it everyone can do it on there Iphone's.
As far as other phones that can do this for years? Let me tell you something i've used Smartphones since the Treo 300. I've used the Tandy Zoom, Palm, Windows CE, Windows Mobile 5, 6.1 and even 6.5, I've used Blackberry 4 on up including the Storm. There all JUNK in comparision to how well the Iphone does it's tasks and does them FAST and efficiantly, YES you lose some features and the system is locked down tighter than a virgin butt hole but still its WELL worth the ease of use. IF the Iphone had a hardware keyboard it would be UNBEATABLE.
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|I can't tell you how p!ssed off I am that the 3.0 update hasn't brought video recording to the existing 3G and you have to buy a 3G S. You can guarantee and bet your life on it that I'll be jailbreaking the phone for absolute sure.
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|That was one of my main reasons for jailbreaking. Qik doesn't have the best quality in the world but its better than nothing.
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|"-- a feature that competitive phones have had for years."
All these competitive phones are copying the iPhone! Just ask fatso and interdork7!
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|Are you that arrogant mac guy on the commercials?? How much you getting paid to dis a superior product?
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|it's a good thing these iPhone can NOT get virus's..
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|This is a bad joke right?
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|Considering that there were something like 42 security issues, it's a good thing someone didn't figure out how to do it.
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|MMS is an advanced product. But I have to ask the question. Since MMS and SMS cost money why use them? Your already paying for unlimited internet?? I have been sending this content thru my email for years now on my phone....
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|Aren't they a bit more instantaneous? My friend can SMS a whole message before I can receive the last one.
I have never in 5 years sent an MMS, even though it was available to me for free at times. I'm not sure that anyone actually does. I don't think I could live without SMS, though.
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|You sir obviously do not know the difference between MMS and Email but whatever is convenient for you. I for one would like to have MMS on my iPhone!
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|Messaging is great except for the outrageous prices the carriers rape you for it. AT&T is so greedy, you can not even have it turned off so you have to pay if some idiot sends you a text. Email is free. Why people text is beyond me.
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|I can't beleive you guys get charged for MMS in the States, I really feel sorry for you. In the UK MMS and ordinary texts are included within your package. I get something like 700 mins and 500 texts which include MMS texts.
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