“We know that many of you are wondering what is going on with the so much sought after release for firmware 2.x. We have been working really hard lately and today we were able to send the first MMSs between different devices running firmware 2.x on iPhone 3G and 2G!”

And he continues…

“Of course, you are all wondering when will this be made public? It is hard to say, and you all know how bad I am at making guesstimates… There are a few issues left, not major ones, but still issues, until we can make an official 1.2 release for the 2.x firmware. So lets say maybe two weeks from now. Maybe, maybe…”

You can see screenshots over at Swirly’s forum here