NovaMedia announced Tuesday that it would add an SMS management solution to FoneLink, the company's Mac and mobile phone synchronization and management utility. FoneLink provides address book, calendar, and iTunes playlist synchronization, ringtone creation, file transfer management, and back up and restoration services between your Mac and your mobile phone. The company's new feature is a full-featured SMS manager that offers a variety of SMS-related services.

FoneLink SMS allows you to send, receive, answer, forward, and archive SMS messages through your phone on your Mac. It supports multipart and group messaging, and it can store your SMS messages in user-defined folders. One can search messages for either name or by content.

The product is integrated into Mac OS X's Address Book database, which means that incoming messages will be displayed with your Address Book image for that person. In addition, entering a name for a new message requires only a partial entry for a match, just like with Address Book itself.

The company is bumping the price for FoneLink by €8.40 (US$11.84 as of this writing) to €33.57 ($47.31), but if you buy before October 31, 2007 (German-time), you can get the software at the old price of €25.17 ($35.47). FoneLink SMS will not be added to the FoneLink package until November, 2007.

FoneLink requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 or higher, and you can find a full list of the supported phones, a list more inclusive than the phones officially supported by Apple through iSync, at the FoneLink Web page.