AT&T announced today it will be launching Multimedia Messaging Service or MMS to the iPhone on September 25, 2009.
The long awaited update to the iPhone, since its announcement of the 3.0 firmware back in May, was to bring MMS to the iPhone. Most carriers immediately supported MMS, however AT&T stated it would not be supporting it in June with the rest of the carriers. AT&T said it planned to launch the service by the end of summer.
AT&T said the reason for not launching the MMS service in June was to see if their network could handle the increase in traffic. The last couple of months, AT&T has been upgrading their network to handle the increase in traffic once MMS goes live, saying there will be an "exponentially increase traffic."
AT&T did mention that the MMS will be enabled through a software update. This update is said to launch on September 25, 2009 and could be just for AT&T customers or the anticipated release of the iPhone 3.1 firmware that has been in beta for some time.
There is still no set date on when tethering will be launched, although the company has said it will be available "in the future."
Want to get in on all the iPhone app glory, but with the goodness of Bing? Now you can, using the Bing iPhone and Mac SDK, available on CodePlex as open source under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). According to a post on the Bing Community blog:
The SDK provides:
* The ability to easily query Bing from within your Cocoa or Cocoa Touch application.
* Perform both synchronous and asynchronous queries.
* Search Bing for Web, Image, Video, News, and Phonebook results.
The latest smartphone market report from analysts IDC claims that despite all the buzz, attention and money thrown at iPhones and anything to do with iPhones, the new iPhone 3G S came in second to BlackBerry’s Curve as the phone most bought in America in the second quartery of 2009. 
IDC’s top ten list looks like this:
1. BlackBerry Curve
2. iPhone 3G S
3. BlackBerry Pearl
4. iPhone 3G
5. BlackBerry Bold
6. BlackBerry Storm
7. HTC T-Mobile G1
8. Palm Pre
9. HTC Touch Pro
10. HTC Touch Diamond
via venturebeat
You’d never believe it if a friend told you that Reyna Perez’ latest music video, “Love Love Love,” was entirely shot (and probably even edited a bit) on the new iPhone 3G S. But, with such video capabilities touted by Apple, no surprise her fiancee (who is also the producer of the video) came up with the idea as he was waiting in line to buy the speedier 3G iPhone.
Announcing the fresh iPhone 3G S, Apple revealed that users would not only be able to shoot video with the device (something that wasn’t possible with the 2G and 3G iPhones), but that they would also benefit from amazing editing features, all on the go. iPhone 3G S owners now have their own video-editing studio right in their pocket. And it’s all as intuitive as it gets. For example, you just drag to select start and end points on a filmstrip, trim to that selection, hit save and that’s it!
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