Aside from some other obvious limitations on the iPhone, unlike its 'regular' cell phone cousins, it also does not allow you to archive your SMS messages to your SIM card. Fair enough if it cannot sync the SMS messages to you Mac because even most 'regular' cell phones can't do it without the assistance of some third party application but not even being able to save SMS messages to your SIM card?

Enter Micromat's Syphone, currently in version 0.99b11 which can still be downloaded for FREE. Syphone is simple utility that allows iPhone users to view, save, and back up their SMS messages.

Syphone can be used to save, archive and view SMS messages from your iPhone on your Mac, even the ones that have been deleted from your iPhone.

Among some of the key features included in Syphone are as mentioned below, as stated on Micromat's website:

• View synced iPhone SMS messages on your Macintosh
• Archive SMS messages
• Import/export SMS messages
• View SMS messages offline in an iChat-like interface with selectable colors
• Open Address Book contacts
• View the number of sent and received messages for each contact
• Supports multiple iPhones

And if that's not enough to make you drool, check out the neat hybrid Address Book and iChat-like interface that allows you to browse your archived SMS messages:

Diagram 1.0, Syphone's cool interface makes browsing archived SMS messages a fun affair

Its strongly recommended to download Syphone now whilst its still freeware, before Micromat releases a 'professional' edition where Syphone users have to pay for the application.