The sms app in Phone 7 bears the highest potential of greatness among all short messaging systems I have ever seen in a smartphone, and that mainly owes to its combination of list and threaded view. Upon starting the sms app you are first presented with a chronological list view of all recently received short messages. Clicking on one of the entries opens a threaded view of your conversation with just this person. I completely dig that combination because it gives you the best of both worlds. However, there are some flaws about the Phone 7 sms app Microsoft should fix better sooner than later.
(1) There is no list view of sent messages. There are times at which I just know that I sent some information out to one of my contacts but fail to remember who that was. With sent messages only showing up in threaded view, I need to review all threads to search for messages.
(2) There is no text search option for short messages.
(3) Confirmations appear as separate messages, thus bloating the whole thread. Why not use a symbolic indicator to signal whether the recipient has already gotten the message.
(4) Sent and received mails have the same color in threaded view. They are only set apart by the speech bubbles of sent messages being right aligned while received messages are left aligned. Some color differentiation would be just nice.
Update: Point (4) hast been remedied with the advent of Mango, where your sent message bubbles exhibit a darker color than received messages.
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