An awesome Application for Text Messaging and SMS has been recently updated and works great. When the iPhone was released i was very sad to find out that i could not send SMS to multiple contacts, forward or delete just that one text message… Good News!

Now the Apple iphone program SMSD will allow you to manage and forward certain messages as well as delete incoming or sent messages.. You can forward messages and send an SMS to a group list now. Finally someone else feels my frustration with apple for the need for this simple SMS application.. I don’t understand why Apple would not include this in the first place. My only guess was that they had trouble figuring out how the ichat style texting would work with multiple recipients.

I love this new program, you can get it from your Installer App on the iphone once it’s been jail-broken or from google code here SMSD.

My only complaint about this nifty little application is that you must have a leading 1 before your numbers in the US. So contacts phone numbers in your address book will need to look like this: 1(555)123-4567, otherwise it will not show the name of the contact. If anyone out there knows of a script to add this 1 to my address book on my mac please email or leave a comment to this post as to where i can find this script or app. Thanks
Next we have a brand new MMS application which i have not got to work yet, only because i need to find my proxy settings for delivery of MMS messages. I guess they work differently then the traditional SMS style messages.

With this program this should let you send any photo you took with your iphone to anyone else who has an MMS enabled phone and account.. Now while you can send MMS messages which are picture text messages, you still can’t receive them on your iphone. I’m sure this developer is working on this part while i write this and Apple should have this all working by next year (fingers crossed)

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Apparently Apple released this feature on the iphone before it was truly ready. Apple iPhone Visual Voicemail is an awesome feature that only AT&T offers right now. Soon i think all cell phone makers & carriers will be using enhanced voicemail features such as apples.

All iPhone plans include Visual Voicemail, an industry first, which allows consumers to see a listing of their voicemails, decide which messages to listen to, then go directly to those messages without listening to previous messages. Just like email, Visual Voicemail on iPhone enables users to immediately and randomly access the messages that interest them most. Unlike most wireless plans that charge additional fees for new features, there are no additional fees for Visual Voicemail.

Apple’s already drawn a bit of unintended attention for the iPhone’s Visual Voicemail feature, and it now looks like its facing a bit more heat on the matter, with Klausner Technologies now suing both it and AT&T for alleged patent infringement. Specifically, Klasuner is claiming that the Apple and AT&T violated two of its patents by “allowing users to selectively retrieve voice messages via the iPhone’s inbox display” and, according to Apple Insider, its seeking damages and future royalties estimated at some $360 million.
Read more at www.topiphonenews.com

I just upgraded to the latest iTuens 7.5.. My iphone is still operational. So the new update is declared safe for the iPhone developer community. No problems with hacks & jailbreaks.

he new update includes the following enhancements as per the release notes:

•     iTunes 7.5 features the ability to activate iPhone wherever service is offered.
•     Support for Phase, a new interactive music game designed exclusively for iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod (fifth generation).
•     Includes bug fixes to improve stability and performance.