Grouping Received Text Messages

I agree - I don't think this is group messaging.

However, I still think it should work this way for what I was originally asking. I'd expect that it would group messages by contact, not by name. Any worthwhile piece of software doesn't store and sort by a text string anyhow - it has a unique field for identifying that information. I'd expect that any communication with that "contact" could be grouped together. Then I could have 10 John Smiths and all of their communications would still be seperate because they are seperate contacts, however, I could still receive text messages from each of their 10 cell phones in 1 continuous text string.

Make sense? Other phones have this capability - in addition to adding chat and email to those existing text messages. You can transfer your conversation with one person between multiple different mediums.

I'm mostly concerned with grouping text messages - but it extends beyond that.

Well, I do only text from one number - but others may not.

Current example of why one wouldn't is the new use of Google Voice. You can send texts from the number. However, this is a second number, assigned to a same contact... I've already received texts from others at their Google Voice number in addition to their text numbers (because you can do it from the web).