We've seen SMS come a long way in the last 10 years. What once was a phenom largely used in Europe's ubiquitous GSM systems has become a global sensation used from small kids to aging grandparents. Raking up billions of
text messages a month qualifies SMS as critical mass, yes?
Anyhoo,
Samsung wants to complement or even shove aside text messaging
interfaces like T9 and Motorola's iTap and create a Gmail-like "text threaded conversation" using a new guided process for in-phone text messaging services. Samsung's new patent includes processes like mapping phone numbers from incoming text messages to stored pictures of the sender and creating SMS threading that emulates an IM interface. Yes, we all know IM and some SMS chat apps are available on hundreds of millions of recent phones, but nothing is beating the quantity of sent and received text messages using conventional means. Samsung may have this new "interface" on its phones "very soon;" we hope on the new
Ultra units.
[Via
Unwired View, thanks Staska]
posted Mar 19th 2007 10:59PM
This looks an a lot like the texting interface on the apple iphone, that was announced months ago. So Samsungs break thru is to add pictures?
"Samsung wants to complement or even shove aside text messaging interfaces like T9 and Motorola's iTap..."
Um... You're kidding right? T9 and iTap are not text messaging interfaces. They're text input methods. This new iChat-style interface is going to use the same iTap/T9 predictive input methods as before. The two are not mutually exclusive -- in fact, they're not related at all.
This looks to be a pretty inefficient use of small screen real-estate.
Looks like what's on the iPhone...with the bubbles and everything...
Are those static icons, or is it an XBoxLive Camera sort of deal? Regardless, I have the Palm threaded texting app on my 6700 and love it. Bringing it to your normal non-smart phones is a win for everyone.
Looks more like a Google Talk interface than a Gmail interface...
This patent was filed in September last year, months before the iPhone was announced. So Apple's breakthrough was to remove pictures?
Just me? Or is EXACTLY like iChat on OS X has been like for years, and EXACTLY, what iPhone will be like?
Just to throw my 2 cents out there, Samsung makes the best phones for text messaging as it is. I've owned the u740 and the a670 and both phones were fast and efficient in inputing text
You can improve it even further:
http://groups.google.com/group/sms-salama/web/introduction