You can try to beat them, or you can go ahead and join them. Say you’ve gotten your hands on an unlocked iPhone, and you want to use it on the T-Mobile USA network. If you’re simply using the iPhone to make calls and SMS, then usually all you need is to pop in your T-Mobile SIM card and you’re good to go. However, if you want to access the Internet and use MMS, you’ll need to enter the settings for T-Mobile. This guide is for iPhone OS 3.0 and above.
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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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When firmware 2.0 came around for the iPhone, it wasn’t such an easy decision for me or most of my colleagues to upgrade. Part of the reason was that we would lose the ability to send and receive MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) via a jailbroken app called SwirlyMMS.
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For the past few months I have been trying to upload photos to my Flickr account from my Treo 650.  With Flickr, you can upload by email.  A unique email address is assigned to you.  Enter the title of the photo in the Subject Field, and notes in the text field.   Click send, and in a minute or two the photo will appear in your email account.

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