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Artemis68 I switched to 5.0 on my Curve 8900.
The threaded messaging is wonderful...only when I'm texting friends. It keeps things organized.
The news/twitter updates though...U-G-H.
SMS is not an IM app. Never was intended to be. For any of us who rely on SMS for broadcast updates, this dreaded threaded sms format is just horrible.
I got a series of text messages the other day from a co-worker. Yes, it made following THAT series of conversations interesting. But the tradeoff for the occasional chit-chat with a friend or coworker is not at all worthwhile when you get alert text messages from Google, AP News and other broadcast services.
The problem here is that RIM did not think this through. Had they thought this through, they would have understood that this dreaded threaded sms function wouldn't fit the needs of everyone and they would have given users the option to use the dreaded threaded sms or the traditional/classic format.
Now the project is to get RIM to go back and re-engineer their code to allow the dreaded threaded sms function to be disabled and turned off.