It's hard to jump into saying which app can be the best in a certain category on Android, since every time we find new ones that make things difficult for those who have been with us the longest.
But surely in own SMS messages we can decide with one that possibly has everything that can be required of one of this section. This app is Handcent SMS, and yes, it is one of the old ones and the one that has been swarming the Play Store for the longest time doing its thing to replace the one that comes by default on Android.
Handcent SMS
Handcent SMS was one of the first apps that I installed on Android already more than 5 years ago If my memory does not fail. It would be that for those years he gave more importance to SMS and that is why he wanted an app that would give something special to text messages that in its time were one of the most surprising and fashionable means to communicate with friends. Now it seems like a thing of the past.
Notable Features of Handcent SMS
- Sending SMS messages from other devices
- Private category of messages
- Create reminders from the messages themselves
- Backup SMS messages
- Customizable themes
- Synchronization of the profile image with that of Facebook
- One-time notifications per contact
- Inbox search for a contact or message
The highlights of this SMS app
The best thing about Handcent SMS is its large number of options as you may have seen in the set of features it contains.
Perhaps its visual aspect could be improved with a few of those cool animations that are encouraging us so much today from Material Design of Android L, but overall it is, let's say, the rival to beat by the other apps.
More and more things
Within this section, there are several characteristics that are essential, such as the capacity to send SMS messages from other devices with Handcent Anywhere. You can even customize the notifications according to who sends us the messages.
The handicap
The visuals compared to the wealth of options you have not up to par than you might expect. So here you have your happiness ahead to improve in future new versions that brighten up the user interface of this app.
Textra SMS with Material Design
If you have reached the previous lines commenting how the graphic section of Handcent is not the best of the app, surely with Textra SMS you will find an option to replace to Android's own default app with a noteworthy visual touch.
Textra SMS was updated at the beginning of September with Material Design which means an excellent visual style and that this app treats it in a good way, and that without a doubt, is one of the key points of claim to try this app for the first time if it is the first time you have heard of it.
Another of its characteristics is that in the new version it offers support to Android Wear. And let's not say that Textra comes with a lack of options apart from the fact that it is free and is well full of good ratings from users. Of course, HandcentSMS the best.
