David Gilson reviews SMS Chat, an SMS manager application which shows you your text messages in a conversation view, and throws in a lot more features too. If you are tired of the same-old S60 SMS manager and want something new, then you might like to check out his review of this actively-supported utility.
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Isn't this function fulfilled by the home screen contacts on 5th? They certainly do have messages from each contact grouped together.
this program is not bad, i tried it and found it somewhat better than what i've seen before. However, i ended up uninstalling it because when you get a message in sms chat you also get it on your default client and when reading only in sms chat it doesnt remove it from the default client. It was annoying to see my read messages still unread on my homescreen. It has potential most definitely but they need to incorporate it more and make it faster because even the opening of messages would take quite a bit of time.
hi,
I use this app for quite a long time now and i'm satisfied with it. There's a setting "mark as read". You should enable that. By the way... i think its not good to replace the built-in client. It's an alternative view, not a messagingclient.
Sorry while this is a great app, $14.99 to buy it, this firstly should actually be part of the phone anyway, non threaded SMS clients in this day and age is just lazy (Nokia come on)
Secondly this is way over priced, I can and have gotten Profimail for less than this and SMS Chat is no way near Profimail
I prefer Free iSMS.
krisq wrote:I prefer Free iSMS.
Ditto!
Don't know who the author or where the original site is, I found it via one of the other mobile news sites a while ago so I may be on an old version: http://dailymobile.se/2009/03/13/symbian-free-isms-iphone-style-sms-manager-s60v3-and-s60v5/
lol - $14.99
iPhone has had this free since it's launch
Has anyone tried SMS Diary? (http://www.olamelen.com/)
It displays all sms in a long scroll-able thread, allowing you to
view your 'conversation' either with all, or one of your friends.
You can export the whole thread as a html file stored in your
phone, which can then be viewed in a web browser, or transferred
to your PC.
have been using free isms for ages. needs self sign but its free and is just like iphone screens.
I suppose I just don't "get it". When I had my iPhone I never found the threaded SMS an advantage. Maybe if I sent and received SMS from fifty people a day it could come in handy, but for one or two people, meh... My memory is decent enough I can recall what was going on.
The best Threaded SMS in this field is www.ehandysoft.com's ThreadSMS. It have more features, iphone style, private sms, schedule sms, flash sms...(this should be called "Power SMS manager"😉. and the same price.
This is the page:http://www.ehandysoft.com/threadsms.htm, I became to its user 3 years ago, workhard company.
I am coming from the Palm Treo 680, and there threaded messages are the operating system default. I was very frustrated at the beginning on my Nokia E63, that the messages appeared seperately.
I have installed both Nokia Converstaions and SMS Chat.
SMS Chat seemed to be good at the beginning, and after one day of struggle with the trial version (could not really evaluate the features), I have paid for the registration. But then, I gave up using it. It had the same amount of disadvantages as advantages, and it was just an extra complexity for me.
Things that I didn't like:
- SMS Chat cannot replace 1:1 the built in application out of the box: has to be started seperately, I need to manually map buttons in phone settings, and will be always a parallel reador to the built in app.
- New message warning appears both in built-in app and SMS chat. I have to read it in both apps to clear warning messages. If new message warning is disabled in SMS chat, then when I click on the new message warning, the built in app starts.
- Required many keypresses to finally arrive to a message within its thread:
1. Start app
2. Scroll down to "All messages", select
3. Now I have a list with contacts. Select the contact, select "Open chat" from the pop-up window
4. I am at the thread finally.
5. To see the date-time of a message, select message, scroll down to details, and finally can see the details.
(Right-Left scrolling with the Navi key can make it faster, but still needs continous back and forth.)
- When writing a new message, I cannot see the full thread, just the new message that I am typing.
- Initial start (with scanning of messages) is slow each time it is started. As the applicaiton accidentally can be closed, this is a major annoyance.
The trial version is useless, before opening any thread, there is a pop-up message that delays the viewing. It took so long, that I had to ask the author, that is this a built in feature, or my device is slow/I have too many messages. I wish I had spent the money on something more useful. I use it only once per 2 weeks, when I really want to see my messages from somebody in a thread to find a particular message.
I don't recommend it.
Nokia Conversations gives a similar experience (with many back and forth browsing and unecessary clicking), and it is free. I don't use Nokia Conversations neither anymore, though, just the built in app. It doesn't have the features that I need, but at least it is fast.