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Well, Apple has done it again by releasing its latest iPhone the iPhone 3G S. Powered by the iPhone OS 3.0 operating system, I guess this is supposed to be closer to what the iPhone was intended to be. I have the iPhone 3G, which has served me very well since I bought it as a Christmas Present for myself last year (also because I get no love from Apple or AT&T towards upgrading to the new one until March 2010). But I was glad to get the OS 3.0 upgrade. I mean, come on… upgrades are fun, right?

I guess it depends on who you ask because many folks seem to be losing patience with AT&T and their foot-dragging when it comes to implementing MMS and tethering. The phone can do it, but AT&T allegedly needs to perform a little magic on each individual account. Oh well… I’ll just have to wait I guess.

If you want to read more, check out Wired’s Gadget Lab piece by Brian X. Chen.

I guess we’ll learn soon enough… from Web500 :

“Apple will be hosting a media event on March 17, 2009 on the new iPhone 3.0 firmware.  There is a lot of speculation on the features of iPhone 3.0 firmware.  It was believed that iPhone 3.0 will introduce MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) and Tethering.

MMS would finally offer iPhone users the ability to send photos by way of SMS, and tethering would allow you to share your iPhone’s Internet connection with your laptop computer.  MMS is one of the main complains of iPhone users. iPhone users have to rely on e-mails to send MMS messages.  Although there are some MMS apps, they are very unreliable.  Tethering was confirmed a few months ago by AT&T CEO.  The question is how much more the users have to pay for this service.”