Well with whetted appetite, I ventured to AT&T and dropped my $399 usda approved genuine all American cash on a new iPhone.

I see what all the hype was about and must confess that I am infatuated with this lovely device.

It makes calls just fine, manages, after the 1.1.3 update to find me albeit not in close proximity to my physical location, and it does most everything else as advertised.

Now, about the issue of SMS texting... AT&T of course says they support it and also MMS texting (for me a more common type of texting), however, They don't trouble shoot too much regarding Apple's iPhone. They basically hand off the problem to Apple who then tells me that the iPhone can't handle MMS
texting/pictures.

I find it rather odd, though that it can display photos, it can play movies via YouTube, it can display graphics in Safari and it has absolutely no problem displaying pictures in email.

My question I suppose at this juncture is if the iPhone can actually display all these things, why then does Apple/AT&T choose to send us to a website "viewmymessage.com" to be able to view picture messages sent to our iPhones...??

Going to a site on the web to view my text/pictures is bad enough, what totally really draws a bunch of vacuum is the fact that the site to which we must navigate is down far more often than it is up.

Couple that with the fact that the cryptic message id that they want you to enter is like seriously small print and for these old eyes, that is really bad... (I suppose providing a link in the message telling us a "Multi Media Message" has arrived would be too much to ask??).

Well, I really like the iPhone and more than that, my prayers are that Apple will do more for us software wise than just allowing the iPhone to locate us (within say 100 miles).

Anyway, it's a great phone and once the bugs get ironed out, the complaints will vanish and kudos will be heaped in abundance and I will be one of the first to praise the improvements.