Symbiosis60

Today (09/21/2007) Nokia Beta Labs announced the availability of Conversation application which is a threaded texting application for S60. I immediately installed it and I have to say I like what I’m seeing so far. It’s integrated nicely into the native contacts (for some weird reason… I’d see it personally as an additional option under the messaging menu rather than contacts). It adds a tab in the contacts menu allowing you to skip between Contacts, Conversation and Groups tabs. Originally I purchased ThreadedSMS application but disappointingly I have to say that I used it only a few times as the application had a weird “feature” of triggering a message received sound when I was sending the message out which became quite annoying after a while so I stopped using it. Nokia’s application on the other hand works very transparently and the feeling of native application would not be there since the look of it would be different. There’s not much that can be said about this little add on at this point except that it works fine and we will have to wait for the next version that will come out. One another good thing is the fact that most likely it will be implemented in the future releases/updates to S60. Below are two shots of the chat screens.

This is the shot of all conversations


And here's a shot of an individual thread