For PC messaging I really like Adium, primarily simply due to it managing multiple accounts at the same time (btw, you won't see combined accounts in mobile clients because the phone OEMs have to go close deals with each IM infrastructure provider and they won't allow it).
I like the iPhone's messaging too, but it's heavily derived from Palm's Treo messaging apps which introduced threaded text messages to feel like IM. Palm's Windows Mobile app was so superior that it was hacked to run on other WinMo phones. (full disclosure - I used to work for Palm) A question I'd like someone else to expand on who's tried both is, which is better: Palm's using multiple folders for incoming and sent texts, like email, or the iPhone's keeping one list of all in and outgoing messages? On the web mail front, I really like Yahoo mail's ajax drag & drop and keyboard short cuts. The tabbed mail windows work really well. I Hate, Hate the fact that gmail allows only one window. If I have to grab a snippet from an archived email for another it's a real pane. I resort to tricks like inserting garbage text temporally to pull both up in a search window. That said, I like gmail's threading on emails (but I wish there was an indicator on each email as to it being "4 of 23") The indicator in the bottom right corner of the next email's sender is nice but not enough. It took a while, but I'm enjoying gmail's filtering more now. I'm still not a 100% sold on it. The biggest fault is how do you look at all archived mail that doesn't have a tag (without seeing the hundreds of tagged mail too?) /Kam ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
