Its muchhhh better then T-Lert in my opinion. You cant reply from the lockscreen but you can reply from within any app. I get hundreds of text messages per day and with T-Lert lets say I leave my phone on the charger overnight and wake up and grab it I have to exit out of EACH individual text message before being about to use the phone, REALLY annoying seeing as how I get 30-50 text messages over night from twitter updates and things of that nature.