Connect
To connect to the service, access the instant messages menu, select the IM service, if needed, and Login.
To disconnect from the IM service, select Options > Logout.
Sessions
When connected to the service, your status, as seen by others, is shown in a status line: My status: Online, My status: Busy, or Status: Appear off. To change your own status, select Change.
Below the status line there are three folders containing your contacts that show their status: Conversations, Online (), and Offline (). To expand the folder, scroll to it, and select Expand (or scroll right).
To collapse the folder, select Collapse (or 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 depends on the IM service.
●Online () — shows the number of contacts that are
34 online
●Offline () — shows the number of contacts that are offline
To start a conversation, expand the online or the offline folder, scroll to the contact with whom you want to chat, and select Chat. To answer an invitation or reply to a message, expand the Conversations folder, scroll to the contact to whom you want to chat, and select Open.
●Groups > Public groups — List of bookmarks to public groups provided by the service provider (not visible if groups are not supported by the network). To start an 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. 35.
●Search > Users or Groups — to search for other IM users or public groups on the network by phone number, screen name,
●Options > Chat or Join group — to start the conversation when you have found the user or the group that you want
Accept or reject an invitation
If you receive a new invitation, to read it, select Read. If more than one invitation is received, select an invitation and Open. To join the private group conversation, select Accept, and enter the screen name you want to use as your nickname. To reject or delete the invitation, select Options > Reject or Delete.
