You know what that is? That’s called simplicity. When you’re talking to someone via text message you’re having a conversation … so why not display it as such? During CES I had some time to play with my friends Treo and discovered that this was the default way SMS was handled. I look up Windows Mobile and this third party solution has been posted. What about Symbian?
I regularly churn through about 1000 text message a month, and I even hit a little over 1300 once. Had I known that such a feature existed in other operating systems I would’ve been tempted to go with another platform. I’m not lying. I got my E61 and was used to the similar layout of my previous Nokia 3220, text messages were handled in the same inbox/outbox ways of the dinosaur. After being exposed to such a powerful text messaging system on my friends near ancient Treo 650 I feel ripped off.
How could Nokia have missed this? Even the iPhone has threaded SMS!
This doesn’t look difficult to implement, but I”m not a developer so I’ll shut my mouth. I just want to know why … from the country that invented the text message … couldn’t you figure this out for your mobile phones! Take a look at this Treo 750 from Palm running Windows Mobile. See how nice that looks? After all when one is using SMS one is having a conversation. The only logical thing to do would be to present the interface as such.
