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Don't update. Again, there is no way to disable it. Its actually quite nice.Well, that's just sucky...
I like to have all my texts separate in the order it gets sent to me...is there a way to disable that? Or maybe I just shouldn't update it?
Posted from my BlackBerry using BerryBlab03-28-10 07:21 PM - I get that some of you don't like the threaded SMS, but its THE most visible of the updates from 4.7 to 5.0... I can't imagine they'd have an option to do away with a major improvement to their SMS ui. Same goes with the new way in which the "lock" button works. Many people disliked the way it works in 5.0 but that's the way its staying. You just have to adapt. Personally, I feel that if the button is for muting, why wouldn't that be its function. It makes no sense for two features that go together---keyboard lock and standby---to be separated with one function assigned to a button intended for muting a call, music, whatever. Same goes for SMS. Why load down the "message" folder with milions of SMS when they can be threaded together in a conversation? That's the way most users use SMS anyways, conversationally back and forth and so on... It is not only aesthetically much more pleasing, it has a practical purpose too in de-cluttering the folders up. You don't lose any of the features/abilities you have now (that I know of anyways) and you get a couple of "positives" out of the deal.It would be nice to have the option to change it.
In all honestly, neither change is really that big of a deal but are simply more convenient. Simply pressing one button instead of two is nice. Same goes for SMS. Having an entire conversation at hand and in one place beats the **** out of separated SMS scattered amidst emails and other messages all jammed into one folder.
Of course, I guess, its a matter of personal preference, but I don't see too much of a downside to this all. Its just slightly different. After a day, you're used to it and wondering how you lived with the features the way they were before. Honest!
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com03-28-10 07:40 PM - I'm a new BB user but I really don't like the "everything dumped into one folder" paradigm.
While I would definitely like the threaded SMS in general (been using PalmOS for years and they had that first), I hope it doesn't lose important capabilities, ie:
- Individual message date/timestamp (The Palm Pre does this with messages older than ~24 hours and it drove me nuts, and was one of the reasons I now have a BB)
- Preserve the ability to open an individual message by itself for certain purposes., ie forwarding, copy/pasting, etc. (This was another problem with WebOS)
If the new BB threaded SMS maintains these abilities, I would have no problem with it.
What I would *really* like though is the ability to selectively separate SMS, email, PIN msgs, call log events and so on out of the "one big dump folder". I've already separated SMS and email that way, but I think there are a lot of other UI improvements they could make there.
That screen (and the phone dialer screen, for that matter) are also really visually ugly. Just an ugly text list - reminds me of MSDOS.03-28-10 10:23 PM
