Symbian in Motion

TextQuick by Mind-Flip

by Zach at 9:07 pm | July 16th, 2007 | Category: Application Reviews, First Look, Messaging

I’ve come across countless people posting pleas on various forums seeking what seems to me to be some very basic functionality; “I want to be able to quickly access my most frequently-texted contacts!” I think I may have even seen a request for this on the S60 Applications Wishlist (which is looking quite snazzy these days by the way :) ). It makes perfect sense to me and it sounds simple enough, but time continued to pass and no developers stepped forward to address this issue.

Sometimes the most useful apps you’ll find for S60 3rd devices come in very small packages and TextQuick is a perfect example of this. Mind-Flip’s freshman effort for the S60 3rd platform is in my opinion, an absolute necessity for our devices. It is wonderfully simple - as it should be - and it does exactly what it needs to do cleanly and efficiently.

The first time TextQuick opens it performs an analysis of the messages currently stored on your device, making note of the senders and recipients. TextQuick then presents you with your list of contacts ordered according to messaging popularity. Contacts that you exchange messages with most frequently are listed at the top and those with the least frequent correspondence are further down the list. Contacts with whom you have not exchanged any messages are then listed beneath in alphabetical order. There is also a search bar where you can type a contact name (first or last) and the list will drill down as you type.

Scrolling to your desired contact and pressing the select key will cause TextQuick to promptly open a new SMS window with your desired contact in the recipient field and your cursor will be ready to receive your message. It really couldn’t get any easier!

After running this app for the first time, TextQuick makes note of the last recorded message scanned. Subsequent launches prompt TextQuick to scan only for new messages that have been sent or received since the last scan. I find that it opens on my device in just about one second with no new messages present, and my initial scan of roughly 350 messages probably took somewhere between five and seven seconds. Yes, it’s that fast!

Currently TextQuick is available as a free open beta and I really can’t recommend it enough. During the beta, the author only asks that you email him with any feedback that you might have. I’m sure that I’m not in the minority when I say that I use my device for messaging as much as for voice calling, so an app that makes messaging easier quickly jumps up near the top of my list of ‘must-haves’. In fact if I had discovered TextQuick earlier in the day it surely would have been included in my “What’s on a Blogger’s Phone” post. :)

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