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Monday, January 22, 2007
Threaded SMS, just what the doctor ordered
Maybe not as a cure-all, but Threaded SMS ... why doesn't it exist on S60? is a valid question if you do a lot of SMSing, and possibly with maybe several people at the same time.
Darla Mack provides a few more comments in Thumbs Up On The Threaded SMS Idea.
My Jiminy! SMS application might be a viable solution. It's a MIDlet, but all Series 60 phones support MIDlets as well. Actually it runs on almost any newer phone. And yes, it's my hand in the picture.
More information is available at ClickApps. You can try before you buy, or just try.
You might find it strange that the chat log is scrolling downwards, but I had to do it that way to be able to support phones with inline text editing, so you see both the text input field and the log at the same time, and still have access to T9/eZiText, and even handwriting, if available. Of course not all phones support inline editing, but more and more do, as display sizes and resolutions go up.
Note also that Jiminy! can't access the normal SMS Inbox, as that's not allowed from Java, so instead all parties in a conversation need to run Jiminy!. I wish that limitation could have been stepped over, but not even if the application had been certified is this possible.
Darla Mack provides a few more comments in Thumbs Up On The Threaded SMS Idea.
My Jiminy! SMS application might be a viable solution. It's a MIDlet, but all Series 60 phones support MIDlets as well. Actually it runs on almost any newer phone. And yes, it's my hand in the picture.
More information is available at ClickApps. You can try before you buy, or just try.
You might find it strange that the chat log is scrolling downwards, but I had to do it that way to be able to support phones with inline text editing, so you see both the text input field and the log at the same time, and still have access to T9/eZiText, and even handwriting, if available. Of course not all phones support inline editing, but more and more do, as display sizes and resolutions go up.
Note also that Jiminy! can't access the normal SMS Inbox, as that's not allowed from Java, so instead all parties in a conversation need to run Jiminy!. I wish that limitation could have been stepped over, but not even if the application had been certified is this possible.
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I discovered a very reliable threaded SMS client for Pocket PC Phone. It handles both square and rectangular displays. It has some good configuration options for the display and has an excellent popup notification functionality too.
http://www.pocket-sms.com
Downsides are that it only runs on WM 5.0 or better and the license needs to be activated.
Otherwise, a nice simple application which is not so hot on graphics and presentation but has good functionality/setup opions.
http://www.pocket-sms.com
Downsides are that it only runs on WM 5.0 or better and the license needs to be activated.
Otherwise, a nice simple application which is not so hot on graphics and presentation but has good functionality/setup opions.
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