Links
Iphone's Archive
All About Iphone
MMS and IM on the iPhone
Author: bius
So far we know that neither of these will be a part of the iPhone, as of right now. However, in the internal AT&T documents, I mentioned it specifically says that MMS and Instant Messages are included in the data plan. This may be a good sign that with a software upgrade these will eventually be available to iPhone users. I do not care that much about MMS, but I would really love to use Instant Messaging on the iPhone over text messaging. I am not really interested in using any of the web-based hacks either. I want a real time IM client that I can use.
Update: Some people have correctly intepreted the clause to be applicable to other phones that might have the iPhone SIM card placed in them. So it is not directly talking about those features for the iPhone but instead that phones that supported those features would have them included in the iPhone Data Plan if you swapped out SIM cards.
I can still hold out hope for a native Instant Messenging Client.