Thursday, October 23, 2008

Update SMS & MMS Diary

I just received a Licensce Key from Ola Melen and would like add to my review of SMS & MMS Diary.

After I added the License Key I got some more Options in the Menu when you tap on a message.
I will go through all the options that is available in the registered version.
  • Reply
Opens the Drafts folder with a blank message and the senders number in the To: field
  • Copy Message Text
Copies the text of the message to use in another message or application
  • Copy Phone Number
Copies the Sender's phone number - probably to use when creating a new contact
  • Call Sender
Calls the sender
  • Delete
Deletes the current message
  • Sort by Date / Sort by Name
Depending on how your messages are sorted you can sort Name (if it is sorted by Date)
or sort by Date (if sorted by Name)
  • Save as Diary
This probably the most Impressive feauture of this application and deserves
some more explanation. (See below)
  • White Theme / Black Theme
If you have Black Theme active it Changes to White Theme and vice versa
(I must say that I prefer the Black Theme)
  • Update Program
Opens a screen that asks wheter you want to open your Web Browser and retrieve
an update
  • Exit
Exits the application

SAVE AS DIARY

When I clicked on Save as Diary I got the follwing screen

I clicked on YES to open my Web browser, but found it too difficult to read the information on the small screen of my phone.
I then copied the folder that was created on my memory card to my PC. It contained three HTML files that opened in Internet Explorer.
  • The one was Summary information that showed number of messages sent and received per month, number of messages sent and received per Contact and length of messages per contact.
  • The second was the complete messages sorted by Contact
  • The third was the complete messages sorted by Date and grouped per month
This is a easy way to create a backup of your messages.

I am really loving this application.



SMS & MMS Diary on my W960i

A couple of Months ago I switched from Nokia N80 to SE W960. I figured that because they are both Symbian devices they would have similar functions but the W960 would have the edge because of the touch screen. I soon discovered that the UIQ3 interface was very different to the S60 interface. It took me a while to get use to UIQ3 and now that I have I prefer it to S60. The only thing I hate about UIQ3 is the messaging – it is extremely slow.

This is where SMS & MMS Diary comes in.

I only discovered this program today and it is a very effective solution to the slow speed of the default messaging application on UIQ3.

When you run the application you get a scrollable list with all you messages, neatly divided by a red line. The message text is in white on a black background and is very easy to read. Moving you finger up or down on the screen smoothly scrolls the list up and down. A menu is activated when you tap on a message which gives you options to Reply, Delete, Sort, Save as Diary and some Licensing and Buying Options.

Likes:

  • Clean and Readable interface and Menus
  • Very quick to read messages
  • Scrolling of messages with finger
  • Shows SMS & MMS with pictures in the same list

Dislikes:

  • It can be difficult to find a particular message if you have many stored on you phone.
  • The scroll speed is difficult to control

 

In short I would say that SMS & MMS Diary is a very good application with a clean interface and menus and will get even better because the developer is still working on some improvements.

 

SMS & MMS Diary can be Downloaded from here.