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AT&T begins rolling out MMS for the iPhone

by Greg Kumparak on September 13, 2009

A few hours ago, we got a tip from one of our readers that they’d popped into their iPhone messaging app this morning, only to find that they’d suddenly gained the ability to send MMS. We chalked it up as a fluke – AT&T promised it would launch on September 25th, after all, and they haven’t exactly been punctual about this whole thing thus far. Two whole weeks early? It seemed shaky.

Then a few hours later, we got another one. So far, we’ve received three tips, all from entirely different people, all claiming that MMS has sprung up on their iPhones sans jailbreak or any other sort of hackery. Being the curious folks we are, we popped over to Twitter, and sure enough: there’s a stream (albeit a very slow one) of folks reporting that MMS is now up and running on their handsets. Enabling MMS on AT&T’s end is a matter of disabling an “opt-out” toggle on each account, so this is the exact manner we’d expect things to roll out.

We’ve contacted AT&T for comment, and we’ll report back with whatever we hear. Any more of our readers finding themselves MMS’d this morning?

[Thanks David, Bethany, and Sean]

Reports are showing up online that AT&T is beginning a slow rollout of official MMS functionality to seemingly random iPhone users, from Manhattan to Idaho. The official start date is September 25, but it makes sense that the company would implement the change gradually to make sure the network can handle it.

Mediaite’s Ash Kalb discovered that his iPhone suddenly had MMS after a recent upgrade, and theorizes that AT&T is slowly removing the MMS opt-out codes on iPhone users’ accounts.

What states is mms working in with the updated carrier bundle? [HowardForums]
MMS Comes Early To Your iPhone (or, at least, mine) [Mediaite]

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TECH – Nokia N97 first impressions & Nokia N97 Compass Overview

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Nokia N97 first impressions

Nokia N97 Compass Overview
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June 18, 2009
Categories: cell, cellphone, mobile, Mobile Computing, N97, Nokia, Nokia N97, Smartphone, Symbian, Telecommunications . . Author: atliphoneblog . Comments: Leave a comment

TECH – Nokia N97 Review

Nokia N97 Review

Phone Arena reviews the Nokia N97. It is the current flagship model of the Finnish manufacturer and runs on the Symbian S60 5th edition operating system. It sports a 3.5-inch display, stereo speakers, full QWERT keyboard and…

For our full text review click the following link.

http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Nokia-N97-Review-review-r_2191.html

Nokia N97 website

Nokia main website

Credit – dailymobile.se
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June 17, 2009
Categories: cell, cellphone, Finnish language, Flagship, Mobile Computing, Mobile phone, Multimedia, N97, Nokia, Nokia N97, Phone, Qik, qwerty, Review, S60, Symbian, video . . Author: atliphoneblog . Comments: Leave a comment

TECH – Google Voice offers one phone number, many features AKA GrandCentral

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Google number – One number for all your calls and SMS
Call screening – Announce and screen callers Listen in – Listen before taking a call Block calls – Keep unwanted callers at bay SMS – Send, receive, and store SMS Place calls – Call US numbers for free Taking calls – Answer on any of your phones Phone routing – Phones ring based on who calls Forwarding phones – Add phones and decide which ring

Google voicemail – Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts
Voicemail transcripts – Read what your voicemail says Listen to voicemail – Check online or from your phone Notifications – Receive voicemails via email or SMS Personalize greeting – Vary greetings by caller Share voicemail – Forward or download voicemails

Voice features – More cool things you can do with Google Voice
Conference calling – Join people into a single call Call record – Record calls and store them online Call switch – Switch phones during a call Mobile site – View your inbox from your mobile GOOG-411 – Check directory assistance Manage groups – Set preferences by group

We’ve just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.

The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail (see the video below) and archive and search all of the SMS text messages you send and receive. You can also use the service to make low-priced international calls and easily access Goog-411 directory assistance.

As you may know, GrandCentral offers many great features, including a single number to ring your home, work, and mobile phones, a central voicemail inbox that you could access on the web, and the ability to screen calls by listening in live as callers leave a voicemail. You’ll find these features, and more, in the Google Voice preview. Check out the features page for videos and more information on how these features work.

If you’re already using GrandCentral, over the next couple days, you will receive instructions in your GrandCentral inbox on how to start using Google Voice. We’ll be opening it up to others soon, so if you’d like to be notified when that happens, please send us your email address.

Posted by Craig Walker, Vincent Paquet, and Wesley Chan, Google Voice Product Managers

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Sources – googleblog.blogspot.com

https://www.google.com/voice/about

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