Lonnie Knows Everything

Ok so I was waiting to expand on this to really hear more word about it and it seems to be true, no MMS support for your 2g iPhone, and the reason given is that the iPhone 2g hardware does not have the capability to support it.

I can understand holding back a feature to get people to upgrade their phones, really I can .. but to flat out lie about the reason is terrible, certainly a very large number of people are aware that the iPhone can in fact do this because those with a jailbroken iphone ALREADY can do it..  I’ve been using MMS now for a long long time on my 2g phone via SwirlyMMS, the only reason I was excited about iPhone 3.0 is because I assume it will support proper rendering of the messages as well as what we just found out, it supports video properly as well ..

The reason for excluding MMS for 2g is purely a marketing move ..  some have said “What do you expect? that they just give out major updates to make the old phone do what the new one does?” … no software update will make your 2g iPhone have 3g capability, you will not get the faster speeds, you will not get the real GPS ..  those are the reasons most upgrade…

Again I say that if they simply decided to say “No, the MMS capability is a 3g feature only” without going further to claim the 2g hardware isn’t capable of supporting MMS .. I’d not be nearly as offended.

My hope is that the iphone dev team can get this functionality operating on 2g phones, it will no doubt be a hot item for many.