Handcent is definetly the messaging app out there ou can change from different themes in your messaging to make it look like the iphone SMS app and you can also quick reply very fast and have no problem with anything but with every great app there is a bad thing it always starts to slow down my pone when I use for a few days but thats the nly problem I have with but overall a great app!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYxWX_dXvQM and here is another way to look at the review