After failing to meet their own self imposed deadline of late summer, AT&T has finally released MMS text messaging capability to the iPhone.

Here’s the free text message AT&T send to me this afternoon (9/26/09) at 3:03 PM

“Picture and video messaging (MMS) is now available for iPhone. Txt, pic or video msgs you send/receive are included in your msging plan and subject to the limits of your plan. To enable MMS, connect iPhone to your computer and click “Check for Update” in iTunes, then restart your iPhone.”

Here’s the screen shot from my iPhone 3G S:

Here’s the screen shot from iTunes: