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I’ve had the Q for about a year now and ever since I’ve missed one feature that was really nice on previous cellphones. That feature was chat threaded SMS text messages, in other words instead of receiving text messages 1-by-1 like emails, you can view all your texts in their own chat thread or conversation, much like an instant messenger client (AIM, MSN etc.)

Thanks to Extreme Text, this feature is now available for your Q and will make it much easier to have a conversation via text message. Once this application is installed you can scroll through your conversation and view time/date stamped text messages that you have sent or received to a specific contact. No more changing between folders from your inbox to your sent items to check the last message you sent to someone, or wasting time looking through hundreds of text messages in your inbox searching for a specific message. Extreme Text works with your regular Windows Mobile databases so all your current messages will be included and you can switch back to the default text program at any time without losing a message. It also adds great features including emotions, following links in the text, photo contact support, and more..

If you have a Motorola Q and would like to try this application out you can download a totally free trial here. However the trial period will eventually end and at that point, just buy the license it is only ~$13.00.

For additional information and screenshots, check out Extreme Text’s home page.

I bought a Q this weekend. I’ve been using a Blackberry for some time. The Q is a totally different PDA it’s got it’s positives and negatives. One thing I found to be rather interesting is how when you ‘work’ the Q to hard or give it too many commands to process, the trusty Microsoft OS tends to lock up, or ‘freeze’. The web browser is a lot better than my Blackberry’s. It does a better job compiling Cascade Style Sheets. The Blackberry’s browser may load faster but definitely not fancier. I would recommend this phone to others, its quite functional, I like how I can synchronize all my contacts and email, I can now have one running contacts list or address book and use that same contacts list on every electronic device that I use. I like how similar they attempted to make the Q towards a computer running a Windows OS. It’s got My Documents, Program Files and even Windows Media Player. Which makes a hell of a multimedia experience.
All in all great phone, I would suggest you buy one if you are in the market for a PDA.