iMessage for group messages
One of the things I like about the iPhone is the ease of sending SMS messages to groups of people. There is a group of 5 people I regularly send texts to, so in the Messages App, I just select the group from the list of messages, compose the message and the iPhone sends a message to each person in the group (so 5 texts in this case).
Within the group of people, some have iPhones the rest don't.
I've already used iMessage to send messages to individual people within this group who have upgraded to IOS 5. In the list of messages to these people, SMS messages are green, iMessages are blue and the text entry box says iMessage.
However in the group messages I've sent, the messages are green and the text entry box says Text Message, even though some people within the group are capable of receiving iMessages.
I was wondering for group messages if iMessage is smart enough to send iMessages to the people who can receive them and texts to the rest that aren't. The current user interface implies that everyone is getting a text, even though some can receive iMessages. I will need to check my next itemised bill to see what is actually being sent.
Maybe the user interface would be just too complicated to represent a mixed group of text messages and iMessages?
Not a big deal but just wondering...