No more SMS from Adressbook under Leopard?

I liked to use the right click option on a phonenumber to send an sms to someone through my mobile which is connected via bluetooth. It seems that this feature was stripped under Leopard. Why? I really liked it. I hope Apple isn't stripping functionality to favor the iPhone-functionality!

Yes, Apple has removed this feature.
See here:
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=sms&objID=f1223&dateRange=l ast90days&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001

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