Sessions

When connected to the service your status as seen by others is shown in a status line: Status: Online, My status: Busy or Status: App. off. To change own status, select Change.

Below the status line there are three folders containing your contacts and showing their status: Convers. (), Online () and Offline (). To expand the folder, scroll to 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 IM during the active IM 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 depend on the IM service.

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. 31.

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 IM 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. 31.

Search > Users or Groups — to search for other IM users or public groups on the network by phone number, screen name, e-mail address, or name. If you select Groups, you can search for a group by a member in the group, or by group name, topic, or ID.

Options > Chat or Join group — to start the conversation when you have found the user or the group you want.

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