Although it’s the Holiday Season we’ve been working hard on putting the finishing touches to the Treasuremytext iPhone application.
The features are:
- Delete Individual SMS Messages
- Archive Messages to Treasuremytext
- Archive and Delete Messages
So the app will archive messages to Treasuremytext without the need to forward messages by SMS, making using Treasuremytext totally free for iPhone users. Also it solves issues with the iPhones SMS interface - i.e. that you can’t delete single messages, only the whole thread.
Added benefits for use with Treasuremytext:
- Messages appear in TMT with the original date sent
- Messages appear in TMT in the right date order
- TMT figures out the right ‘from’ contact info for you
Still to do:
- Finalise the Authentication Page
- Fix up the new icon (done)
- A little bug fixing
What’s been really cool about this is that by making the application for iPhone we have also made an API. Paul will write more about the choices for API ‘design’ but basically we based ours on Flickr’s as it’s pretty comprehensive and easy for people to use.
What this means is that other developers would be able to create clients for handsets that integrate with Treasuremytext enabling people to do more useful stuff with SMS - via HTTP / over the air synching. More on the Treasuremytext Application for iPhone as it happens.
As big iPhone fans and users we’ve been having a major problem these last couple of weeks. Apple with the iPhone forgot, didn’t get round to, or in zen like quest for simplicity decided to provide only the most basic SMS functionality to facilitate its iChat like SMS interface.
If you didn’t know already this is a bit of a problem for Treasuremytext as it uses SMS forwarding as the means by which messages are saved. It’s a simple mechanism which won’t flummox mobile users and only requires the most basic functionality for a phone to be compatible. This meant probably every phone ever made worked with our service before that is the arrival of the most advanced phone on the planet.
Today though we we’re excited to discover that the latest version of SMSD for the iPhone now includes forwarding. We stumbled across the latest version of it available here or more easily via Installer.app. This will require a Jailbroken iPhone which if you haven’t done so yet you need to do so, they’re are useful guides how to over at www.modmyifone.com.
Originally when we came across this utility it only provided functionality to delete messages but the latest update provides forwarding functionality and it’s pretty nicely done too. In terms of future iPhone support we have plans which will totally remove the need for forwarding altogether and we’re eagerly waiting to get a look at the iPhone SDK but stay tuned for that.
In the meantime if you’ve got an iPhone you can now use Treasuremytext again and set free your SMS from their ‘child like’ iPhone iChat bubble prisons. Need an invite? just drop by beta.treasuremytext.com and leave us your email.
Last Sunday we met up with Mike Lewis (who we met at Barcamp Berlin) in Amsterdam for a slice of apple pie and a chat about iPhone apps. Paul and Mike are going to be making something pretty neat that will hopefully fix our problem with forwarding, deleteing and archiving messages from the iPhone.
Now I got myself one here in the UK, I also have the problem that I can’t use my own application. We need to fix this!
And (note to self) - a discussion I had yesterday reminded me that perhaps people also want to save messages the ’send’ too……
We love the iPhone, and wandering around Berlin its clear that a lot of people do too; they seem to be everywhere even before they’re launched here.
But we have a problem: “What would you want to do with these messages?” you may ask….
Well here’s some suggestions:
- Open individual messages
- Delete individual messages (not the whole thread / conversation)
- Forward individual messages (to a friend)
- Forward individual messages (to Treasuremytext for example)
- Archive all your messages away from your phone
So we know a lot about motivation; why people want to do this stuff with SMS (which is a topic for my next post I think). But in terms of solving the treating SMS as IM problem on iPhone we may also have a plan for that too. More on that “plan” very soon!
Photo: Eric Rice on flickr.
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