Nokia Conversation Threaded SMS
Nokia Beta Labs is really starting to rock now that Tommi is at the helm. He’s working to make it even MORE user-friendly and useful, but they’ve also added a few things recently, including Nokia Download! for PC, N-series PC Suite, and today, they added Conversation, a threaded SMS solution.
I’ll confess, I’m a bit late on this one, Stefan, Darla, Phonescoop, AllAboutSymbian, and others have already announced it, but I’ve noticed one thing that hasn’t been pointed out. I’ll also be using the app extensively over the next few days and will chime in with my observations/feedback soon.
The first thing that I noticed is that it pulls in any Contacts’ ID pics that you may have loaded. I find this really convenient, as I can see at a glance who I was chatting with. Sure, I could just as easily read the name, but I went to the trouble to add those pics, why not use them? Good job on that, Nokia.
The rest of my initial feedback is the same as everyone else: 
1. Make it completely take over incoming messages. If Handy Taskman can completely replace the S60 task manager, why can’t this do the same with my inbox? I suppose they’d need to add MMS support, as well, but that shouldn’t be too difficult.
2. Fonts smaller. MUCH smaller.
3. Make it a single download. If this Contacts Services Support Package is used by so many things (Windows Live, Gizmo, Conversations) then why isn’t it already installed on my phone?
4. Make the incoming/outgoing icons more obvious. Drop the envelope (we already know it’s messages) and just use big arrows, for instance.
5. I’m baffled as to why this is in the Contacts "section." Should be under Inbox.
More to come, but you can snag both downloads over at the Nokia Beta Labs site. Also, read through the comments on Tommi’s post, there’s a few models that are known to have issues.
yeah..this thing is cool.. it uninstall my “sms chat” and use this freeware application..
I have an e62 and a e61 and I can’t get it to work on either phone.