When composing a message on many phones, you can click send and then be prompted to choose from a 'recent contacts' list e.g. people you have sent messages to recently. There seems to be no standard implementation of this on S60. Instead you have to choose from the entire address book.
Is there any 3rd party messaging app that will do it? It's such a bind to go through the contact list and choose who the SMS is going to, especially when 90% of my SMS messages go to about 5% of my contacts. Conversation goes some way to resolving this but until conversation and messaging are one in the same there are compromises here too.
The other text frustration for me on Symbian is that you have to install a 3rd party app like Adaptxt to get auto word completion. This was on a bog standard K610 etc years ago and it still isn't part of 'smart' phones... Again, is there any app that rolls the two (predictive words and recent contacts) into one?
yes its not the best. but i tell you what is the best, installing conversation from nokia beta labs. i couldnt live without this. it threads your text in chronological order and puts them in your contacts app. simply brilliant free app. use that instead. but it doesnt give you favorites like nokia s40 phones. but now all my recent people i text are right there together for super easy texting.
and when you install it and use it, dont close out the contacts app. use the EXIT button to send it to memory. otherwise you will have a delay everytime you open up contacts to send a text or read one. so dont use the RED end key, just use the softkey that says EXIT.
Eh?
On the standard setup when you compose an SMS, you just need to type the first say, 2 letters of the contact name and it gives the option.. unless you have 10 Johns in your phonebook it shouldnt be a problem.... why do you need to scroll all the way thru your contacts.
Roger has said about Nokia Conversation. Get it... its a good app, though it can have some flaws but nothing that over run its usefulness in what it sounds like your looking for.
It wont help on the autocomplete mind.
As stated in original post, I have and use Conversation but until it is fully integrated with messaging there are still problems (it doesn't play nicely with Adaptxt for one). The main one being sometimes when trying to cycle through the spelling of a word it jumps you back up to one of the replies above. I also thing it needs a little work to show whether messages are to or from a contact (could be solved easily by indenting one or the other or giving one a background colour). Finally, as each message is highlighted, it should expand to show the whole message - rather than the ticker tape scrolling method it uses at the moment.
I am sure it is just a dry run for the next fully integrated version of messaging and hence we won't see any more versions of it from beta labs which is a shame.
Kontraband - I've probably not explained well. I mean if I compose a text message and press green (start call) I have to do as you say, type first 2-3 letters of the name to find the contact. On an SE phone, when you press green it would take you to a list of the recently 'texted to' or 'texted from' contacts and you just choose one. It's easier/faster.
is it just me, or does predictive text come on the phone by default for everyone?
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Kontraband - I've probably not explained well. I mean if I compose a text message and press green (start call) I have to do as you say, type first 2-3 letters of the name to find the contact. On an SE phone, when you press green it would take you to a list of the recently 'texted to' or 'texted from' contacts and you just choose one. It's easier/faster.
AHhh yes I got you....thats clearly your chosen method for the best way to do it, but its not mine. Im happy the way it is but then I text a boat load of different people that wouldn't all sit in the recent names sent to on the SE/S40 devices.
Horses for courses. 😎 I understand your wants.