Two years after the original iPhone was released, Apple has finally met feature parity with most smartphones (and “normal” phones!). The original iPhone was first open for sale on June 29th, 2007, for $599 (4GB) and $699 (8GB). That version of the iPhone didn’t have cut & paste, Notes syncing, universal search and MMS support, among other things. Today, you have all that and more.

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I’m still using the original iPhone after 18 months. The recent iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade has made my iPhone a wholly different phone, much more usable and pleasurable to use. The final missing piece was really MMS support, which is enabled for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.

Now, original iPhone users can also send and receive MMS — for free.

How to enable MMS on your original iPhone

0. Upgrade your original iPhone to OS 3.0. Unlock and Jailbreak your iPhone.
1. Open Cydia on the iPhone. Install the Cydia package “ActivateMMS2G” and reboot (power off and restart).
2. Go to http://help.BenM.at on your iPhone.
3. Go to the second Mobileconfigs link, the one that allows you to create a custom Mobileconfig.
4. Enter your MMS APN (i.e. mms.plusgsm.pl) for both of the APN fields (Mobile Internet and Visual Voicemail) and enable tether. Some networks do not require ausername or password, some do. Check with your carrier’s website for details.
5. Press generate, install it, press OK, then immediately reboot. Do not check the settings.
6. Go to Settings > General and scroll down to profile. If it says 2 (or more) profiles, delete/uninstall the one(s) that are not called “help.benm.at” (i.e. delete all but the one you just installed). If it only says help.benm.at, skip to step 8.
7. After deleting the other profiles, go back to help.BenM.at and repeat steps 3-5. The first time you try to install it, it may fail or hang while installing (it did for me anyway) if this happens, press the home button, reopen Safari, then try again, it should work.
8. Once your iPhone has rebooted, go to Settings > General > Network > Cellular Data Network. Your MMS APN should be present in every APN field.
9. Fill in your MMSC and MMS Proxy. Check with your Carrier for details.
10. Reboot your iPhone.
11. Open Messages and try to send an MMS. If it fails, check your settings are correct.
12. If it is successful, go back to Cellular Data Network and change your Cellular Data APN to the one appropriate for your network.
13. Test your data connection.
14. Go to Settings > Messages. Turn on MMS Messaging. Test your MMS.

Enjoy!

As always, do this at your own risk. Remember to backup your iPhone and find out how to restore before you start.

[ via Hackint0sh forums ]

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