Text messages lost if a new one comes in while composing a message?

Originally Posted by YourFace

Hi! I just got my wife the Sanyo MM-8300 phone from Sprint. We both had the Nokia 5200 flip phones from Alltel, which were awesome phones but we dumped Alltel because they lied about the pricing plan they were offering us. The Nokia 5200's have bluetooth, a great VGA camera and camcorder, an MP3/AAC music player, an MMC expansion slot, infrared, free management software, GREAT text messaging and predictive input, a great addressbook, and just a great interface. I was sad to let them go but Sprint doesn't really do Nokia so we had to pick something else.

I got myself a Sprint Pa1mOne Treo 650 and it seems decent but the camera and video are about as useless as on any other cell phone. I do enjoy the cheap unlimited data access, however, and I've already downloaded and installed a bunch of great freeware (games, utilities, IM clients, etc...) and bookmarked a bunch of PDA-friendly websites.

Anyway, about my post...I went to Sprint to get my wife the closest phone to what we had with the Nokia flip phones. Sprint was pushing me toward the Sanyos and said that they are the most reliable, have the best features, the best interface, and the best call clarity and reception. They said the "top of the line" phone was this MM-8300, so that's what I got for my wife.

The MM-8300 is cute enough (it's blue) and it has a camera and camcorder and little animated graphics on the LCD, but the user interface SUCKS (as far as I can tell). It's no where near as easy to use as the Motorola and Nokia interfaces that we're used to. My wife got SO frustrated with it that she was seriously saying she wasn't going to use it. Her main frustration was that when she was in the middle of composing text messages to her friend and another message would come in, it would WIPE OUT the message she had been typing and working on for like 20 minutes. The messages didn't go to the "drafts" folder. They just DISAPPEARED and she was FURIOUS. I checked the manual and all the menus and settings and I couldn't find anything that might fix this horrible design flaw. Am I missing something? Or is this just the way text messaging works on Sanyo phones?

I was thinking about taking it back and getting the new Sanyo MM-9000 or the Samsung MM-A940 instead. Would the Sanyo MM-9000 have the same text messaging problem? I don't know why I didn't see the Sanyo MM-9000 or Samsung MM-A940 the last time I was in the Sprint store but they definitely seem more like the Nokia phones we had with Alltel.