Charlie's post Gmail on the move? Almost. inspired me to comment how I think messaging on the phone should work. I left this as a comment, and "too late," I realized it should be a post.
This isn't starry eyed "the crazy future of SMS," rather it's a few enhancements that I think could be made to SMS and Lifeblog soon on the Nokia phones that are shipping right now.
I used Gmail's pop option on my 6630* and it worked very well. It only downloaded new messages, it was always fast, and I never had trouble sending. However, I am still not sure I *want* email on my phone(s). I'd rather have better text messaging integrated with Lifeblog.
- SMS syncs w/ Outlook/Mail.app via Lifeblog
- iChat like view of many quick SMS back and forth (Treo has this, no?)
- Sort by sender!
- Flag messages (Lifeblog has this now, kind of, if you mark a message as a favorite)
- Let me classify my SMS by what it really is. Right now in my inbox I have all of these kinds of messages:
- address/phone numbers I send to myself as a note
- 46645/GOOGL requests (again, usually an address)
- chats / conversations
- web service results (nagios and dodgeball)
One thing Lifeblog handles very well (close to perfectly) - any note, movie, image or sound can be a blog post, and the verification message has a clear purpose and is easy to forward on as a message (Okay, I'll get starry eyed for a second - imagine a mobile Forwardtrack.) All of this assumes people will start using lifeblog as their primary messaging app, and that lifeblog will be getting mac support and remain backwards compatible, which I know is a tall order.
* Before it bit the dust! See some final pictures: Meg and morning glories, Meg and I running (waddling?) in the this weekend's 4 miler and Adriana and I's front "yard" container garden. I'll miss that phone.
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