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Sep. 28, 2009

The Apple iPhone now can send multimedia messages to another phone number.

AT&T, Apple's exclusive wireless carrier for the iPhone had a few modifications to do to its network to make that work, however.

When asked what those modifications were, a company spokesperson refused to elaborate.

The new iPhone's features enable the exchange of photos, multimedia files or other graphic files both with another iPhone or just about any other similarly equipped phone.

However, iPhone users will still need to connect to iTunes to receive AT&T's necessary "patch" update. AT&T says that the download should take just a few seconds.

As usual, once the download is complete users need to restart their iPhones for the update to work.

To confirm that the iPhone you have is ready for this, users need to go to Settings > General > About. Your wireless carrier version should be AT&T 5.5, and you will still need the latest iPhone 3.1 software update for everything to work correctly.

Also, remember that owners of the original iPhone (circa 2008) won't be able to do this since both the hardware and the software doesn't have the necessary multimedia capabilities.

You can get more info by going to Apple's iPhone website for updating and enabling wireless carrier settings in conjunction with AT&T's network.

You can also read Apple's troubleshooting tips for the iPhone if you need additional help.

Most wireless industry observers agree that the iPhone currently is the most popular smartphone on the market today, and is the Blackberry's biggest rival.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange Friday, Research In Motion's stock tumbled $15.12 or almost 17 percent to $75.04 after coming up short on expectations for revenue, net new subscribers and the general outlook for the balance of 2009.

Now some are even saying that RIM could also have a tough 2010 as well, in light of the iPhone's staggering success in the market for more than one year now.

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Source: Apple.