S60 Open to new features

I am the sort of person who has a nostalgic connection for text messages, and you never know which ones are going to make you feel nostalgic in, say, three years or thirty years, when we've all got gigapixel cameras imbedded in our foreheads and don't need computers anymore except to feed and sleep (but that's another blog post, I feel). So every once in a while I realize I've got 870 text messages in my inbox and maybe it would be nice for my phone if I cleared out at least the monosyllabic ones, and deleting about 200 messages one at a time is a serious pain in the neck.

So there's a nice little function, which is pretty familiar to many phone users, called Mark/Unmark. Essentially anything you choose to mark will show a little checkmark beside it, and if you mark a bunch of things at once, it's much easier to delete them or transfer them or whatever it is you're going to do with them. Marking and unmarking works with text messages and anything that's in your gallery (pics, ringing tones, tracks, video, presentations, etc). It also works on browser bookmarks and contacts. Contacts can be selected into groups, tracks sorted into playlists, and pics can be sent, transferred, printed, organized into albums, uploaded online, used in a muvee, deleted, or made into a slide show as a single batch.

What you can do with a bunch of marked items depends on what the thing is. So play around with it—you might find a trick or two that saves you time or even inspires you to do something with a set of images.