[Adrynalyne]

Ok...

From the today screen.

1. Tap Message.
2. Rotate phone, click Menu, new.
3. Open input panel (mapped to a key, which means I can close it just as easy), and type first few letters of recipient.
4. Press enter, which closes my keyboard, which closes keyboard, tap into message area.
5. Type my message, and hit send. Select the suggested recipient.

6. Hit the ok/X until the program exits. Because I use wkTask, it does exit.

Half as many steps, twice as efficient, no need to scroll contacts.

Plus...because there are only a few I regularly text to, I save their threaded messages, which cuts the steps down another 2 or three. On average, I can send a text faster than I could on my LG Dare.

For someone I have in a threaded conversation:

1. Click name.
2. Open input panel and type.
3. Hit send.


Thats it.

Tips:

If I need something with a different interface, I use VITO SMS-Chat.
SPB Keyboard has a setting to close the input panel when hitting enter.
Use the power of suggestion (ha ha) when sending to a contact.
Go into iContact and send an SMS that way. Cut down more steps. I'd outline how, but my phone is doing a scheduled backup, and I can't interfere.