This basically mirrors the SMS activity/stream on your phone, onto a Chrome extension.
"Mirroring SMS conversation in a chrome extension" is precisely what Google Voice does. I can receive and reply to texts from any keyboard with a keyboard, or from my phone if I'm AFK.
http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/port-your-existi...
I've used this combination for some time, and been quite satisfied with it. The only issue I've had, is that the GTalkSMS app steals alot of resources while running on my android phone. I hope this is not the case with Texty.
http://code.google.com/p/gtalksms/ http://www.jabber.org/ http://www.pidgin.im/
Like Growl, but also lets you click reply and respond to the SMS as well.
It's just easy and works.
I really like the UI of texty, e.g. threaded conversations. That is, as far as i know, not possible with GTalkSMS.
Overall, any seamless interaction with my phone from my desktop is greatly appreciated.
I've been using it for a few weeks and it's totally awesome. It's threaded, syncs with my phone, and is essentially instantaneous. Honestly one of the few killer apps for Android.
It even shows you the phone number and in the case of sms, the contents.
I like responding through my computer though :)
2. The screenshot, and this is as politely as I can put it, makes the app look quite unfinished.
Re: 2 - we'll surely admit that the UI is not great right now -- but we are improving with each release. we want to get it out to people as early as possible, though, so we can get real feedback and build accordingly!
This gets confusing, as the sent items are shown correctly in Android Messaging, but the messages are not delivered.
Also: Please add support for delivery reports.
(Copying my comment from the google extension page without a few typos.)
We are iterating on the Chrome Extension daily as we launch features and encounter bugs like this.
I don't have to be in an app to get these notifications - as long as chrome is running, I get these notifications, whether my active window is chrome.
Does Deskdroid do this too?
I get a LOT of SMS messages, so this is a hugely useful application for me. I actually switched to Android just to get access to the EasySMS app--from Maemo/N900.
This looks really sweet. Just the other day I was asking for an easy way to send text messages from my computer rather than having to grab my phone.
However, it would be nice if it could use a different google account from the one that I am logged into in chrome. (my phone has its own google account)
http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/03/texty-texts-from-google-ch...
i am stuck at 2.1 but so want to use this.
