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T-Mobile G2 User’s Guide

Chatting with friends

To chat with a friend

1Touch a friend in your Friends list. The chat screen opens.
2Enter your message and touch Send.
The messages that you exchange are interleaved on the screen
with information about the chat, such as whether it’s on the
record, the time a message was sent if there’s no response after a
short while, and so on.
3You can enter an emoticon (a “smiley”) on the onscreen keyboard
by touching & holding the Smiley key and then touching an
emoticon. You can also press Menu and touch More > Insert
smiley to open a scrolling list of emoticons.
Your chat session remains open until you end it.

To return to your Friends list

You can return to your Friends list when chatting with a friend, so
that you can invite another friend to chat, add a friend, and so on.
SOn a chat screen, press Menu and touch Friends list.
Friends you’re chatting with are displayed at the top of your Friends
list.
Who you’re chatting with and
their online status.
Messages you exchange are
interleaved with information
about the chat, such as whether
it’s on the record.
Enter a message and touch Send.