Comment 2 for bug 1488985

I took that photo with an Android device. You may say that Anroid is not much better. That's why I'm still using Nokia's phone. They are just user friendlier in many ways. A Messaging-app in Ubuntu phone copies the idea from Android system with viewing sms messages as a chat. It is not always the way that users want to see the database. Yes, database of a message. Yahoo! mail gives a perfect solution: either You can get a new messages as a chat, connected to the older ones just as Android and Ubuntu devices do OR You can have Your old Inbox with every message shown as a single one. In second case You get the database of a messages not a database of users that sent You a message.
Now if You have a database, You will probably look for something in it. And these are message contents rather than users. At least in my case. It would be awesome to be able to switch between a chat view and a standard inbox with all messages as in an old Nokia or Yahoo! mail.