User's Manual

Chapter 3 : Email and other messages 23
• Any other time: Open the application menu and tap Preferences &
Accounts. Tap Add IM Account.
3 Tap the account type.
4 Enter your username and password.
5 Ta p Sign In.
6 Ta p Done.
Sign out of an IM account
1 Open Messaging .
2 Ta p Buddies.
3 Tap the status icon to the left of your online status (Available or Busy)
and tap Sign off.
Send and receive IM messages
BEFORE YOU BEGIN Make sure that your phone is on and that you’re
inside a coverage area.
1 Open Messaging .
2 Do one of the following to start or continue a conversation:
• In Buddies view, tap a buddy name. If there's more than one account
for that buddy, the most recently used IM account is opened.
• In Conversations view, tap an existing conversation.
• In Conversations or Buddies view, if you tap , you start a new text
message. To switch to IM, tap and tap an IM address from your
Contacts.
3 Enter the message text and tap .
4 When the message recipient replies, the reply appears below your
message in the conversation. Repeat step 3 to reply to that person.
5 (Optional) Do any of the following from a message you receive:
• To call a number: Tap the number, and tap .
• To send a text message: Tap and hold the number, and tap Te xt .
• To send an email: Tap the email address.
• To go to a web address: Tap it.