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Great news all you multimedia texting freaks, the iPhone update that brings you MMS is now live. So update that iPhone through iTunes, stretch out those thumbs, and prepare for a weekend texting extravaganza!

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AT&T BlackBerry Bold users (yay, me) will be happy to know that RIM’s latest update, scheduled to go live this aftertoon, will add Visual Voicemail to their device. Other improvements include:

• 2G GSM option (improves battery life and possibly reception)
• General system optimizations
• Download icons for MobiTV, Mobile Banking, Tetris, and Scrabble

Once the update is available, users can update using their Wireless Update option, download via the web, or install through the BlackBerry Desktop Manager.

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Apple released their iPhone OS 3.1 update to developers. So what’s new in this release? Not much for you consumers as this seems to be a developer oriented update. Check out what’s new:

• Around 15 new OpenGL toys for handling 3D models
• VideoEditorController API, which should let third party apps call up the video editing UI
• Video picker API, goes hand-in-hand with the above
• Plenty of obligatory “It seems faster!” reports
• Some are claiming that MMS is now enabled by default, though still not functioning properly on AT&T. Seems strange to us that this would come via an OS update and not a carrier file update

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Just a reminder that the iPhone/Touch OS 3.0 update will be available sometime today, as we reported a while back. No one knows the exact time so do like me and sit in front of your browser while hitting the F5 key every few seconds for the next several hours…or not. For those of you living in a deep, dark cave (and I suspect you are if you’re hitting that F5 key right about now) check out some of the new features:

• Cut, copy, paste
• Landscape keyboard
• MMS capability
• Spotlight search
• Voice memos
• Improved Calendar
• Download iTunes content directly to iPhone
• Safari improvements
• Internet tethering
• Stereo bluetooth

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