There have got to be easier ways to do this!
Looking Up Contacts – Another criticism is the lookup. ?Why on Earth can I not force it to look up someone? ?I usually get so frustrated with finding an old message to reply to and waiting for it to pop up a correctly-spelled name, that I close the messaging program (I use Handcent) and go to the Contacts and send a message from there. ?For the longest time I did not think there was even a method for sending a text from the contact because it only refers to calls, but there is a little face icon that you can click on that eventually will open up and you an send a text from there, with the messaging program you specify (the default of Handcent). ?Granted, I have almost 8,000 contacts synched, but the names I type in are unique enough. ?This should not be so onerous!
Deleting Messages/Housekeeping – My biggest problem with the messaging on the Droid after not being able to find my contacts, is that I have to hit FOUR BUTTONS to confirm the deletion of a single text! ?What on Earth is this all about? ?I already get my texts backed up on Gmail and my SD card, so why do I need to hit that may buttons for a single message? It’s absurd and complete waste of time. ?If they are so worried about me inadvertently deleting an un-backed up message, why don’t they just create a trash folder?
Finding Old Messages – I found a little trick to quickly find someone I want to reply to, but it doesn’t seem to work as well as I would like. ?When you are in your messaging inbox, you can do a search, but it is NOT intelligent enough to see the name or number of the person you are searching for. ?It only searches the content of the messages! ?I am going to do some research and hope they fix this flaw soon, as it renders the search feature much less powerful.
Browsing to Top and Bottom of Messages – I also miss the Blackberry features like hitting T for top of your inbox and B for bottom. ?There doesn’t appear to be any way to navigate except to scroll, and despite the small software upgrade, there is still a lot of stuttering for me when I go through my messages.
De-Threading Available? – There does not seem to be a way to de-thread messages, and when I’m backed up on my Facebook status updates from friends that I get delivered in that manner, this can really be a nightmare. ?My old Motorola 9cq was actually helpful in some ways because every message was individual. ?While this contributed to a lot of clutter, at least I could do house keeping a lot easier.
No Auto-More? – When I do have long threads, there is a subtle button nearthe top that I have missed seeing a few times and I have gone ahead and deleted messages that I did not have read. ?I wish there was a way to have all of the threads remain live when I scroll so I can just finish reading it. ?When I DO hit the view more messages button, it takes me to the top of the thread, so that I forget where I ended. ?This doesn’t make any sense to me. ?If I am reading a long thread backwards, then I want to be able to just continue to scroll from where I was.
