Spotted a blog post about this earlier today.....
From the site (Trinket Software)....
PowerSMS is a mobile application for people who love text messaging. It enables a number of interesting communication scenarios, which are either cumbersome or impossible without it.
PowerSMS does not replace your phone's built-in text messaging features. Instead, it works with the same folders and messages you already have. It's simple, performs tasks quickly, and gets out of the way. Use PowerSMS to improve communications with your family, friends and colleagues, and they'll wonder how you do it!
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The app is still in beta at the moment, so I have no idea whether it will be free or commercial software when it's released - I'd be happy to pay for it, just for the "Note to Self" option alone . It also offers group messaging, backup/restore of SMS messages, scheduled SMS messages - kinda like several of the applications on xda-developers rolled into one interface....Neat
Have a look at the product, try it, give some feedback (there's even a feedback option in the program menu which sends an email to the developer).
Cheers,
Mark.
Yeah, looks pretty good. I saw this one on WMExperts this morning.
Just got notified of this, and thought you all would be interested.
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I watched the demo and couldn't understand what it was about. Monitor different locations weather and other security alerts? I also couldn't pay attention long enough to see how it integrated with your mobile phone.
Still learning about it myself
From what I've seen it provides a way to send a message to defined groups. Emergency contacts is the one that is prebuilt. You send one message and it goes to everyone in the group. The news thing looks like a way to keep up with info that might affect family/friends who live way from you.
It is a desktop app, but if you activate your phone, you can send and recieve alerts from the system via sms.
I'm sending feedback that I'd like to see a dedicated mobile app.
Ive seen MS chose to combine IM and SMS and to me this looks really messy.
First of all the integration of IM is quite nice but I wish it was kept seperate from SMS conversations since these are to the majority of people still different than IMs and used on different devices or apps. I dont want to continue a conversation automatically on a different app or something. This will be very annoying to the other user.
Certainly if somebody just left his/her pc on or IM on accidently....
They should have added facebook private messaging as well and IM/SMS seperated like it was and just added a chat pivot in the messaging hub.
to me an sms is still something every user has always with him her, like when u send somebody an address or something it should be on their phones and not deliverd trough IM and its annoying having to switch first.
Its kind of short sighted implementation, the idea is good but the reality will be very annoying the way it works now.
you will get a ton of sms like notifications for every IM which can be annoying since on a chat conversation people send much more messages per minute than trough sms. Having to toggle online offline all the time will be a pita
am i the only one who thinks this will be garbage? Instead they should have allowed third party apps like whatsapp to use this on user permission. I hope I can switch off the live messenger. Or just revert back to the original sms screen
I like the idea to have an overview of my messages regardlessly whether they come via SMS, Windows Live or Facebook. Although I agree that getting notifications for all those messages shown on the SMS tile would be kind of overwhelming. But I can imagine Microsoft changes the way the tile works. So it still shows the number of SMS, but in addition to that shows an icon or something when you recieve a chat message from Facebook or Windows Live.
In my opinion.. the best feauture ever, of every OS. Loved that!
I love it as well, and think its nice not to have to go to 4 different places for my facebook, text, wlm & (eventually skype).
While I hope they either have a toggle setting for separate 'rows', or add it soon after Mango for those who really don't like it, I honestly doubt they want to mess it up by having too many places for messages. It fits in pretty perfectly with their vision for the overall UI design imo.
For me,M$ thread is not a new idea,it just copying the messaging app in the HP webos...however HP webos messaging is better,they can download apps that support HP connect and integrate into the messaging app(so,this means they can have more than 1 im clients in 1 messaging app).
Feel so sorry to HP webos,always being copied by others,even the UI design of playbook has been copied
Marvin_S said:
First of all the integration of IM is quite nice but I wish it was kept seperate from SMS conversations since these are to the majority of people still different than IMs and used on different devices or apps. I dont want to continue a conversation automatically on a different app or something. This will be very annoying to the other user.
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Threading will be the beginning of the end for SMS IMNSHO. Most people still use SMS because it's what they know and are used to.
My wife is a great example, she keeps sending me SMSes while I'm out because that's what she's used to. Even though I've had email (and to some extent IM) on my phones since forever. With a "messaging hub" it takes all the guesswork out of the equation - she'll write the message as she normally does and the phone will decide whether it should deliver via FB, Messenger, Skype or SMS.
Now, if you don't want to continue the conversation if the user has moved to a different device you don't have to. The phone will tell you how the message was sent as well as what services the recipient is currently logged on to.
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to me an sms is still something every user has always with him her, like when u send somebody an address or something it should be on their phones and not deliverd trough IM and its annoying having to switch first.
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This just proves my point - you're used to SMS. And again, you can choose whether to send as SMS or IM.
Personally I find this feature great. Two things should be done to make it even better though;
1. Implement a industry-wide protocol so it doesn't matter if you're on a crackberry, iphone or windows phone. Sure, Skype and Messenger goes a long way towards achieving this but there are still people who use smaller IM services only.
2. Allow third-party apps to hook in to the messaging hub - there's a few apps out there today that are not chat apps as such but still implement messaging. Being able to receive (and reply to) these messages from the same place would be great. It would also make it easier for other IM services to integrate with the OS.
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Although I agree that getting notifications for all those messages shown on the SMS tile would be kind of overwhelming.
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But why? Are you less likely to want to read a message coming in thru Messenger than one delivered via SMS? I for one don't care how my messages are delivered, I just want to be notified. It's a bit like having three post boxes outside your house - one for deliveries by DHL only, another for Deutsche Post and a third for everyone else - i.e. pointless
I really like this new feature as well. I am confident that any replies you send to someone will use the same service they used to "text" you, unless you choose to change it. People on non-WP7 phones won't suddenly need to be jumping all over the place.
On the other hand, when other people send you messages from multiple sources (SMS, FB, WLM, etc), you will be able to get all of the messages in one convenient place. I like that.
Take a break off on the Angry-Greedy Feeling of Lumia Users being cheated by Microsoft and Nokia... I have another thought on a different angle.
The current built-in Facebook of Windows Phone does not show up or allow users to view a group or a page on Facebook. I just suddenly realize that this could be a missing piece of the Facebook Puzzle of Windows Phone.
I have myself quite a lot of pages and group on Facebook that i get news or receive Notifications, or just simply get interested on what they are up to, but only the Facebook Application support viewing a page or group. Sometime, i just find it difficult just to open + wait and navigate to the specific point that i want the update quick and fast ( not intend to be using the app for awhile, or i mean : Quick Check)
So i think if they can drop a little support for a page/group on Facebook, let's us pin it to the Start Screen, would be a nice thing to have.
So what do you guys think?
Description
Social Notification is the fastest way to share your thoughts on Twitter or with other apps. Social Notification creates an always-on notification that, when touched, will let you type your text and share directly to Twitter or even with other apps, like GMail or your Facebook app. With Social Notification, you don't have to close the app you're currently using to share your thoughts with the world. You share, and then you're right back to the app you were using before!
Features:
-Always-on notification to quickly share your thoughts from anywhere
-Post directly to Twitter, without the need to open your Twitter client
-Share with any app you have that can handle text
-Shorten links with bit.ly (you can even short the link without sharing it!)
-Send DM's by typing "D username" and your message (replace username with the user who will receive the DM, not need for the @, and take the quotation marks out!)
-Option to send a tweet again if it fails to send in the first time
-Runs on Twitter API 1.1
Pro Features:
-Option to auto-start the app when the system boots
-DashClock Extension (4.2)
-Option to add location to your tweet (geolocation)
-Upload a photo directly from the application
-Expandable notification to quicly close/open the app (Android 4.1+)
Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vdlow.socialnotification
Developer Notes
Social Notification is my first Android app. I learned to develop for Android while creating a concept, which became Social Notification.
I'm one of those guys who tweet 100 times per day, so I wanted a way to post to twitter without leaving the app I'm currently using. That was the motivation behind Social Notification. After starting the development, I found it would be nice to have an option to share with any other app, not only directly to twitter. I hope Social Notification saves your time just like it saves mine!
Known Issues
-In some cases the friends list (people you follow) is not complete. It looks like an issue of Twitter4j or TwitterAPI, and I'm investigating it
Libraries used
-Twitter4j