BiteSMS 4.7 for iPhone Offers Ad Supported Option

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Posted April 14, 2010 at 11:57pm by iClarified

BiteSMS 4.7, a replacement to the built-in Apple messaging application for the iPhone, has been released.

What's New In This Version:
● A license is no longer required to use biteSMS, if you don’t have a license or credits you will be shown ads instead. The intent is that those who can’t afford / don’t want to pay can at least help in supporting the biteSMS team by accepting the ads.
● Delivery Reports, done really nicely with icons!
● Quick List feature. From the biteSMS status bar icon, easily display and action your unread SMS messages.
● Quick Reply now has 9 action buttons you can use. Simply configure (displayed or not, display order and gesture) in Settings, Quick Reply, Configure Buttons.For example, my top 3 Quick Reply buttons are [Later] [Popup] [Send], and I can still swipe left & right in the Quick Reply window to make use of the other 6 buttons!!!
● As above, but 6 action buttons for Quick Compose.
● In Settings, Quick Reply, Configure Buttons you can choose the required action for the “Red X” icon or the Home button, as either Close (mark as read) or Later (leave unread) or no action.
● Quick Compose now remembers the recipient and text you entered (within 5 minutes or until sent), so you can exit Quick Compose do something else and then come back and complete your message.
● Added Pocket Protection feature (Settings, Lock Screen Mode, Features). Set this to off if you would like all the Quick Reply buttons to be active without needing to tap in the text field. I love this feature!
● New settings “Lock Screen Mode >” and “Unlock Screen Mode >”, allows you to quickly manage and visualize the settings for these two very different modes.For example, want to use just Quick List in lock screen mode with no SMS alerts? It’s now easy to configure!
● If you are in Quick List, Quick Compose or Quick Reply and an incoming SMS arrives, it no longer “takes over the screen” it simply gets added to the Quick List (after appropriate sound and vibrate).
● The “Tap for Quick Compose” HUD now starts to fade immediately (still takes time to fade but starts straight away not 1.5 seconds later)
● Under the group Carrier SMS Plan in settings, the “Plan Includes” and “Currently Used” counters are now 5-digits instead of 4.
● Added a Forum link in the Settings, About page.
● Fixed up the Quick Compose HUD click sound file, so it can now be customized via Winterboard.
● Fixed up issue where Quick Compose and Quick Reply could make future Apple alerts on the SpringBoard appear in landscape mode.

You can install BiteSMS from the BigBoss Cydia repository.

BiteSMS 4.7 for iPhone Offers Ad Supported Option

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iFiNi - April 15, 2010 at 5:17pm

WARNING! Updated to version 4.7 and it caused my iPhone 3GS to slow down tremendously. Did a reboot and my iPhone simply would not boot up ie hang on lockscreen. After 32 attempts to manually reboot I managed to get boot up and immediately removed biteSMS 4.7. Everything went back to normal after. Crash logs confirmed biteSMS 4.7 to be the culprit. BE WARNED!

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turim - April 15, 2010 at 3:10am

BiteSMS is one of the main reasons why I jailbreak my phone. It´s featurepacked, and I can only use a handful of them. Apple could really learn from the devs of this app. It´s all the original Messages-app in iPhone wished it could be! One of the fundamentals in a regular sms-app is emoticons/smileys (no, not emoji yet, since it´s not in use on other handsets). I hope iPhone OS 4.0 with all the new API´s will address things a bit!

krak4212 - April 15, 2010 at 12:49am

The update is not showing up in Cydia for me!! What gives??

Enrico - April 15, 2010 at 12:40am

iRealSMS is the better option... Give it a look.

sohail gagai - April 16, 2010 at 5:22pm

but whos gonna pay for irealsms its for 14 dollars

Enrico - April 16, 2010 at 6:11pm

I'll gladly pay for something that I get good use out of. iRealSMS is well worth the price for me. How can I expect useful apps to be developed for the iPhone if I'm not willing to pay anything for them? These are just average guys that are trying to make a living with their programming knowledge. I don't expect to use their hard work for free. The new BiteSMS is free if you want to get spammed with ads but even aside from that, I don't think even the non-ad "pay" version is better than iRealSMS (yes, I've used them both). To each his own, but I can't imagine anyone could afford an iPhone and then complain about a useful Cydia app that costs $14.99 or even more. Another nice Cydia app that's well worth it's $9.99 price tag is MyWi (allows you to share your iPhone's 3G connection as a WiFi network to other computers and even the iPad!)