Color differentiating a portion of a text message shown in a listing on a handheld communication device

摘要

A handheld wireless communication device (300) includes features to send and receive text messages. The handheld wireless communication device is further equipped with a microprocessor (338) configured to run software programs (358) on the device such as text message management program. The text message management program displays a listing of a plurality of received text messages on a display screen (322) and color differentiates at least a portion of the display-listed plurality of received text messages based upon a characteristic common to each received text message (420). The characteristic common to each display-listed received text message may be a host name (407) that is included in an identification code for the respective text message's sender.