HTC Hero Cell Phone User Manual


 
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Web and Data Services
To start a chat:
1. Tap a friend in the Friends list.
– or –
Navigate to a friend using the trackball and press the trackball.
2. Chat with your friend by entering text using the onscreen keyboard.
3. After entering your message, tap
Send.
To switch between active chats:
You can switch between chats if you have more than one chat going.
1. While on a chat screen or in the friends list, press and tap
Switch chats.
2. On the panel that opens, tap the friend you want to chat with.
To close a chat:
In your Friends list, press and hold a friend with an active chat and tap End chat on the menu.
– or –
While on a chat screen, press and tap
End chat.
Managing your friends
Friends in your friends list is sorted by their online status — active chats, online, busy, and offline. Within the
status groupings, friends are listed alphabetically.
By default, only the friends that you frequently communicate with — the most popular — are in the Friends list.
If you want to display all your friends, press and tap
All friends.
To block a friend:
You can block a friend from sending you messages. When blocked, your friend is also removed from your
Friends list.
1. In the Friends list, locate the friend you want to block.
2. Press and hold the friend’s name, and tap
Block friend. Your friend is removed from your friends list and is
added to the blocked friends list.
Tip
To insert a smiley, press and tap Insert smiley. Tap a smiley to insert it into your message.
Tip
To switch back to displaying only your most popular friends, press and tap Most popular.
Note
If you cannot see the friend, Press and tap All friends.
Note
To unblock a friend, in the Friends list, press and tap Blocked. In the Blocked friends list, tap the name of
the friend you want to unblock, and tap
OK when prompted.
Tap to switch chat with this
friend.