It only took, what, 3 months (more or less), but iPhone MMS has finally been activated on AT&T's network. As the flagship carrier for the hot device, AT&T took a lot of flak over the missing feature, available on most other carriers from the day the iPhone 3GS and iPhone OS 3.0 launched.
What should you expect? While there were reports of AT&T sending an SMS message to iPhone users, telling them that MMS was available, that didn't happen for me. Instead, in late morning, I plugged my iPhone into a USB port, started up iTunes, went to my iPhone in iTunes, and clicked "Check for Update".
There it was. As shown above, and as I expected, what you'll get is a small carrier update that enables iPhone MMS. When I say small, I mean small, as well; compared to a ROM update it takes mere seconds.
Once you've downloaded the iPhone MMS carrier settings update, Apple recommends you restart your iPhone. To do this, hold down the power button until the red "Slide to power off" prompt appears. Power off your iPhone. Once it is off, press the power button to turn it back on.
After your iPhone restarts, verify MMS is active by creating a new text message. You should see the camera icon to the left of the text field as shown above. Voila, AT&T and iPhone MMS are one. Now, about Google Voice ...
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