User's Guide

Messaging
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Sessions
When connected to the instant messaging service your status as seen by
others is shown in a status line: My status: Online, My status: Busy or
Status: Appear offline — to change own status, select Change.
Below the status line there are three folders containing your contacts
and showing their status: Conversations, Online and Offline. To expand
the folder highlight it and select Expand (or press scroll right), to
collapse the folder select Collapse (or press scroll left).
Conversations — shows the list of new and read instant messages or
invitations to instant messaging during the active instant messaging
session.
indicates a new group message.
indicates a read group message.
indicates a new instant message.
indicates a read instant message.
indicates an invitation.
The icons and texts on the display may vary, depending on the instant
messaging service you have selected.
Online — shows the number of contacts that are online.
Offline — shows the number of contacts that are offline
To start a conversation, expand the Online or the Offline folder and
scroll to the contact with whom you would like to chat and select Chat.
To answer an invitation or to reply to a message expand the
Conversations folder and scroll to the contact to whom you would like
to chat and select Open. To add contacts, see “Add IM contacts,” p. 41.
Groups > Public groups (not visible if groups are not supported by the
network) — the list of bookmarks to public groups provided by the
service provider is displayed. To start a instant messaging session with a
group, scroll to a group, and select Join. Enter the screen name that you
want to use as your nickname in the conversation. When you have
successfully joined the group conversation, you can start a group
conversation. You can create a private group. See “Groups,” p. 41.
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