Review: QuickText Fuels Your Text Messaging Addiction

Application: QuickText
Developer: Cannon Software (David Cannon)
Overall rating: 7/10
Price: $7.50
Purchase Link: http://www.mobihand.com/product.asp?id=20551&n=QuickText

Overview/Description:

QuickText is a very simple application that allows you to open a text message form to a specific contact with one button.  Here is how it works: after opening the application you are able to program 54 different speed texts (26 letters for the alphabet, 26 for the characters on each letter controlled by the alt key, 1 for the $ symbol, and 1 for zer0).  Any contact can be assigned to any key, but it will default you to the first contact of each letter you are first assigning.  By pressing the SPACE key on the main screen it brings up your address book, by pressing alt + SPACE you can type in a phone number to use once.   In the menu, you can make a new entry, change an existing entry, change a contact, or delete any entry.  Under the options you can choose to default a contacts mobile number (or else it will always ask you which number you want to use), and show phone numbers on the list.

Once your list is all set up opening up a text message form for person X takes two buttons.   All you have to do is open the app, which you should keep on your home screen, then press the key of who you want to text, and boom a new text form with their name on it is open.

Pros:

Here is an app that is so simple, yet so effective.  It takes a minimum of 3-4 button clicks to get to a specific text from your home screen, plus typing a name in or scrolling through your addressbook.  With QuickText, 2 buttons.  I like how it even makes opening a blank form easy too.
Cons:

I wish that QuickText allowed for multiple character entries, not because 54 available entries is enough, but because I don’t just have one person per letter under my contacts.  If there was multi character commands available then I could still use certain letter keys for Alex and Aaron, get my drift?
Conclusion:

In the end, this program is really cool and convenient especially for those who are very impatient at time and want their texts to be 1 second faster.  It will end up saving you time if you text certain people a lot more than others.  Is it work $7.50 though?  In my opinion, no, maybe $4 though.