Handscent or Go Sms??

[thatperson]

I was using GO, but have switched to Handcent. I have had trouble with GO showing texts that I have recieved showing that I sent it.

 

[MachineGunnWilly]

Is handcent slow?? I often have realtime IM-ish conversations on handcent and I have not noticed any sort of lag.

The only time there is any delay in receiving texts is when someone sends me one when I'm in the NYC subway. Then I might not get it until 15 or 20 minutes after I reach the surface.

Handcent is not slow for receiving text, but it does take an awfully long time to load sometimes. If Handcent can fix this I think it's perfect.

I recently installed Go and love it, but it seems to have a few bugs, if I pick a contact that I'm having a conversation with it sometimes selects the wrong person and the LED will not flash when my phone is charging ( i typically keep my phone on silent, I prefer to just look over and see the little green LED light then be annoyed by constant notification sounds)

 

[itsallgood]

Handcent is not slow for receiving text, but it does take an awfully long time to load sometimes. If Handcent can fix this I think it's perfect.

I recently installed Go and love it, but it seems to have a few bugs, if I pick a contact that I'm having a conversation with it sometimes selects the wrong person and the LED will not flash when my phone is charging ( i typically keep my phone on silent, I prefer to just look over and see the little green LED light then be annoyed by constant notification sounds)

I use Handcent and have not noticed any lag. I have had lengthy text conversations, of over 10 min., during peak hours. The only thing that I have had problems with, is certain people not receiving text, even though on my end, it says it was sent. (I'm thinking network issue.)

 

[UniR]

Tried various and all the popular SMS clients but finalized with GO. Like the others it has advantages when using the GO launcher. I really like the way it can be customized for appearance. I find the interface super clean and straightforward and wish they would make an email client app that is as straightforward as that on a BlackBerry.

A few issues. The odd SMS text doesn't come through (maybe 1 in a thousand), although the phone number is integrated to Google Voice and it isn't getting it either so it is probably a cloud/gateway thing in my estimation and not GO.

The timing of messages received. The sequence of the conversation is sometimes jumbled. I think this could be easily fixed if they were more aware of it.

Biggest peeve is no simple way to store a pic sent through text unless I am missing something, then my peeve is that it isn't clear.

 

[actofgod]

I had Handscent since launch on my Incredible and just changed over to Go SMS...not going back to Handscent. I just can't take the long boot times and messaging lags.

 

[Vicdude]

I might use Go as it appears that it will take up half the memory of Handcent....