Smartphone Text Message Alert

[Guest simoncpage]

Having recently just bought a smartphone (i-mate SP5m) I have been trying to set it up as I want it (after having been used to the Sony Ericsson for the last few years K68, K700, W800, W300)

1. Is there a way to be able to open a text message as it arrives - with the sony ericsson you would get a screen saying message from Joe Bloggs and time and a bit of the message with a nice open button to view it straight away?

2. When sending text message one of Sonys killer function was the ability to keep a list of the most recent recipients. So you can quickly pick from a list of them rather than having to do a search.

Any help on this would be great

Thanks

[Guest conan_troutman]

er the contacts button changes to read mmessages this opens it up for reading

the most recent sent are stored in your infolder where you just reply what more could you possibly want??

[Guest simoncpage]

Arh I didn't notice that contacts changes that solves one.

PROBLEM: I'm not planning on keeping my text message indefinitely and I will clear them out and I don't want to hunt through a list of messages to find one to reply to for the person I want.

I want to write a new message and then on send find the contact from a list of most recently sent people.

PROBLEM: I have another request - when you enter text with t9 with the sony ericsson if you backup on a word it underlines it and goes back to the predictive list selection on the i-mate SP5m you just go back to overwriting the word and you have to delete it completely and start again

Edited August 24, 2006 by simoncpage

[Guest jcjdoss]

Arh I didn't notice that contacts changes that solves one.

PROBLEM: I'm not planning on keeping my text message indefinitely and I will clear them out and I don't want to hunt through a list of messages to find one to reply to for the person I want.

I want to write a new message and then on send find the contact from a list of most recently sent people.

PROBLEM: I have another request - when you enter text with t9 with the sony ericsson if you backup on a word it underlines it and goes back to the predictive list selection on the i-mate SP5m you just go back to overwriting the word and you have to delete it completely and start again

Sounds like a good request. Anybody want to program something like this.

[Guest conan_troutman]

open a text message hold the * key pick option 6 then option two now type in all the words you feel T9 will not instinctively know usually names

this way there is less chance of them not been unknown when typing reducing the troublesome feature you mention

as for most recent contacts why wouldnt you just add the recipient at the start when composing message it says "to" here press action key and it opens contacts you spell the name T9 style so if you typed

756 it brings up all numbers starting 756 aswell as all contacts who names begin with the letters used on those keys

so it may bring Up RIK, or RILey,edwards or PILkington k glass company

its really not that troublesome

Edited August 25, 2006 by conan_troutman

[Guest simoncpage]

open a text message hold the * key pick option 6 then option two now type in all the words you feel T9 will not instinctively know usually names

this way there is less chance of them not been unknown when typing reducing the troublesome feature you mention

as for most recent contacts why wouldnt you just add the recipient at the start when composing message it says "to" here press action key and it opens contacts you spell the name T9 style so if you typed

756 it brings up all numbers starting 756 aswell as all contacts who names begin with the letters used on those keys

so it may bring Up RIK, or RILey,edwards or PILkington k glass company

its really not that troublesome

Its not for words that it doesn't know it when I accidentially pick the wrong word and if it is a long word say 8 letters you have to delete all of it and start again - unlike the sony ericsson which automatically calls up the T9 drop down for you to re-select when you back up.

Also - its just that I am used to it (with the popular send name) and like to send text like that if you think about it it is a much more cleaner and neater way of sending particularly when you send a lot and to a select few and when you want to send one quickly - you would realise this if you had been using a sony ericsson too - the the time it takes to send a text message with a smartphone is so much longer - "smart" not really being the right word.

If anyone has or could create this for a smartphone it would be a killer app as far as I am concerned - Sony are forging ahead on intuitive and useful UIs

[Guest Monolithix (MVP)]

Personally i turn on t9 in the to: field and type the actual name into the field. When you send the phone will automatically find the number and provide mulitple options if it matches more than one contact. I find this is the quickest way to input the recipient...

[Guest jcjdoss]

Personally i turn on t9 in the to: field and type the actual name into the field. When you send the phone will automatically find the number and provide mulitple options if it matches more than one contact. I find this is the quickest way to input the recipient...

Sweet tip.