"Official" MMS Coming to iPhone?

[DaveTaylor]

MacWorld Sweden caught the attention of iPhone users when they reported that Swedish carrier Telia is planning on bringing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to their iPhone users. MMS is a feature that has been long requested by iPhone users and would allow the easy sending of multimedia (photos, video) to your contacts.

Their solution appears that it may be a third party application developed by Swedish developer Mobispine. Mobispine is marketing their MMS application to mobile carriers (such as AT&T) as a solution to provide the service to their end users.
We're confident that operators will find the service easy to use and profitable with an opportunity to expand messaging usage, improve subscriber retention and hopefully increase revenue. The service will also increase customer loyalty and recognition as the brand is displayed on the user's phone. The application is white-labelled and will be branded for each operator and distributed via the App store.

While there have been many MMS-like applications that have appeared in the App Store, this solution appears like it would tie in directly with the carrier, allowing more seamless messaging between mobile phones. Of course, this would also mean that carriers would likely be able to charge a premium for MMS messages.

source:http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/20/...ve-for-iphone/

[Boxiel]

That would be one hell of a software update for the iPhone, it isn't that the network's don't support it, its the damn handset!

Would be cool though..

[DaveTaylor]

That would be one hell of a software update for the iPhone, it isn't that the network's don't support it, its the damn handset!

Would be cool though..

If you read it correctly it will be an application, :|?

[xxMATTGxx]

Yeah be an application one of the networks wants to pass around to the other iPhone networks, looks pretty sweet.

[Ostinato]

So will this actually happen? This is the only aspect stopping me getting an iphone.