Yeah, no doubt the original iPhone could do MMS if they wanted it to. I remember there was a jailbreak app back in 2007 that enabled it. Apple just chose not to support it on that model.

No MMS is AT&T's fault, not Apple's.

The lack of Wi-Fi is a requirement by the Communist government if China. Should something happen where they want to cut their citizens' access to the Internet, they just disable the carrier's data. This way, you won't have a situation like in Iran where the government couldn't block Twitter from all mobile phones during the election riots recently. The Chinese are thinking ahead ;)

The idea with LTE is that you create a single high performance data network. Then the carrier has the option of either use a separate voice network like Verizon is doing now with 1x (voice) and EV-DO (data). Or they can implement some sort of VOIP solution and just send voice over the data network. You would think maintaining a single data network would be the easier option vs. two separate networks. I've always wondered if the average non-techie Verizon user even understands what the 2 signal meters on their phones are for since Verizon labels then 1x and Ev.

Unfortunately, Sprint sucks in a lot of areas.

Looks like it's going to be an awesome device! Too bad it's a Sprint exclusive -- that's going to be its downfall.

They worded this poorly. It is not an optional feature, it is now the standard behavior of SMS. You can't turn it off. Basically, if you receive an SMS and do not touch your phone, 5 minutes later it will play the incoming SMS sound again (however screen stays off). If you still do not touch your phone, 5 minutes later it will do it once more.

No doubt that *some* of the 3G issues can be blamed on AT&T. However, when you have another 3G phone on AT&T's network side-by-side with the iPhone and the other phone is out performing the iPhone, I think it's pretty obvious that you can't blame the network in that case.

I think this feature was worded poorly. It's not an optional feature you can turn on, it's just the standard behavior now. You'll get up to two additional alerts if you don't check your SMS. It seems to just repeat the SMS sound every five minutes.

As a greedy, power-hungry bastard, I will definitely NOT be upgrading to 2.0.2! So suck it all you other 3G users :)