Best Text Messaging Phone?
We had a pretty heated argument today in the office about what mobile phone out there was the best for text messaging. To figure out who is right, we thought what a great question to put out to Tatango fans, the real experts on text messaging.
So in the comment section below, tell us which phone you think is the best mobile phone for text messaging and why.
27 Responses to “Best Text Messaging Phone?”
Blackberry Pearl
By Kelly on Aug 14, 2008
My old KRZR. T9 and real buttons.
I love my iPhone, but I was faster, more accurate and didn’t have to look at my keys on the KRZR.
By tyler Hurst on Aug 14, 2008
For me the iPhone is great. The lack of support for multimedia messages is disappointing, but I can type much faster than on a T9 phone, and I really like the way your messages are presented in the context of a conversation.
By Nathan Carnes on Aug 14, 2008
I like my Verizon VX6700. The slide-out keyboard makes typing super fast.
By Thomas Deliduka on Aug 14, 2008
I’d have to say the Crackberry Pearl…having the two letter keyboard makes it very quick especially when you type with one hand. Its condensed and not stretched out like a regular Crackberry.
By Adam Lourie on Aug 14, 2008
My vote is for the curve
By Andrew Dumont on Aug 14, 2008
It’s not the Original LG Chocolate. Blind-texting is okay but in Word Input, backspacing often leads to the accidental sending of a message due to the touch face buttons proximity and my sausage fingers.
By Paul McBrier Jr. on Aug 15, 2008
I think the LG Voyager is great. The big keys are great and the size is just perfect for a touch screen phone as well.
By Ian Ferrell on Aug 16, 2008
I like my LG Scoop (aka the Rumor). It has a slide out QWERTY keyboard that works great, as it has well-spaced buttons that actually stick out a bit.
By Corey Oltman on Aug 16, 2008
The iPhone. The keyboard is full width and the keys are quit large compared to phones with physical keys. Access to special characters is instant (holding down the U for a second gives you all the variations of U) and being able to switch dictionary languages in mid text is excellent, no hunting through menus.
No MMS is poor and the lack of copy/paste is at times irritating but overall I find it much more usable than any of the phones I’ve used previously. It takes practice but not much to get up to speed.
By Paul on Aug 16, 2008
Actually, I had a Sanyo 4200 from sprint a while back. Thin as heck, indestructible and fast.
Sadly, no internet or color screen, but hey, that was in 2004.
By tyler Hurst on Aug 16, 2008
I’m very happy with my Sprint Mogul (HTC Titan) especially since it’s been upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 which now features SMS threads.
By Thomas Ho on Aug 17, 2008
iPhone.
While you may hate the legions of fanbois out there that proclain in chorus “Apple can do no wrong” but for text messaging iPhone is tops. Yes it lacks copy & paste and SMS message forwarding. It does have the beautiful message threading, huge message capacity, message sending in the background (try sending a 120+ character message on your phone to 50-60 people). Even before the iPhone I’ve always been a text message fiend and with my Jaiku account now open I’m on track for my SMS traffic to break 10,000 messages this month.
From the graphic at the top of the article and response I had from participating their online poll it seems that the Tatango crew is biased against the iPhone, however that opinion may be constrained only to Derek Johnson. My bet is that it simply lack of time invested in a new platform or maybe they don’t text very much.
~K
By Kestrachern on Aug 17, 2008
iPhone hands down. While the on screen keyboard isn’t the easiest to deal with, the threaded SMS and ease of organizing your messages does it for me.
By Marty on Aug 18, 2008
Amazing. I’ll add to favourites your blog. Do you want to write more about it?
By Wern on Aug 25, 2008
@Kestrachern - No bias, I use my iPhone and love it to death. Just wanted to throw up an image that would cause a little bit of a reaction, guess it worked…hahaha Thanks again for your input!
By Derek Johnson on Aug 25, 2008
The black Jack 2 is a good phone to text with but i have a blackberry curve now.its not as good but im still fast.
By Tim on Dec 31, 2008
T mobile sidekick
By max zheng on Jan 1, 2009
I think that the sidekick lx is pretty good. Full qwertykeyboard and a fast internet connection
By bob on Jan 12, 2009
wow … no one mentioned the treo / centro?
great, great phones for TM’s. full keyboard, big screen, and something no on else has .. threaded text messaging. you TM’s look like a really great IM program. keeps the conversation together. allows various colors and security features ….. and if you get a call u can’t answer, one screen touch allows u to send a quick text back to the caller.
By Robert LoCascio on Jan 21, 2009
Definitely the blackberry curve. Got mine and love it…and Robert, no one mentioned the TREO because its dead and is ancient technology compared to the bb os and even winmo
By Mike Martin on Feb 12, 2009
The G1 is amazing. It does conversations nicely, has a slide out full qwerty keyboard and is fast. I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned it yet, but I’m convinced it’s the best out there for texting.
By Benson Kalahar on Feb 12, 2009
LG Lotus hands down!
By Cory on Feb 16, 2009
The LG Venus in T9 Mode, or basically any LG Slider in T9 mode are fast texters when you become very comfortable with them.
By Usain Bolt on Apr 20, 2009
LG VOYAGER ALL THE WAY BIG BUTTONS SPACED KEYS IT S AWESOME SIDEKICK IS NOT THAT BAD TOO
By CASELO on May 22, 2009
the Sidekick. i dont care which one, but these phones are the best for text messaging and keeping in touch with friends. ive had 4 sidekicks in the past and all of them have been phenomenal.
By jack martin on Jul 15, 2009
Nokia 1101 is defo gurd. The keypad has a silicone material which enhances the quickness of texting and reduces the need for error as the button are seperated by spaces which can be felt.
Its a old phone however one the best I have had in the past. All samsung and most sony phones are shyt as they just focus on hardware and how the phone looks but the user friendliness as nokia do.
By Mo on Aug 24, 2009