With ChompSMS for Android get extra features like chat-style bubbles, contact pictures, quick reply, signatures, and heaps of customizations. You can use ChompSMS for Android as a replacement to the built-in messaging application, and send SMS messages via your mobile carrier as you normally do. Or, if your mobile carrier charges a lot, you can buy credits to send SMS messages via the chompSMS network. Install the ChompSMS for Android, and you will immediately be at home with all the SMS features you are used to, with the benefit of a nice user interface.
Easily read text with the chat balloons and the text interpreter is quite accurate. They also include their own messaging service so you may save your minutes for your phone.
Cons
If you cannot shut down the resident messaging on your phone. You will be bombarded by dual messaging alerts from both messaging applications.
Summary
If you can get around the resident SMS application, I would recommend this pleasant program.