Messaging
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Sessions
When connected to the IM service your status as seen by others is
shown in a status line: My status: Online, My status: Busy or Status:
Appear offline — to change own status, select Change.
Below the status line there are three folders containing your contacts
and showing their status: Conversations (), Online () and Offline (). To
expand the folder highlight 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 may vary, depending on the IM service
you have selected.
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,
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, scroll to the contact to whom you would like to
chat, and select Open. To add contacts, see Add IM contacts p. 41.
Groups > Public groups — the list of bookmarks to public groups
provided by the service provider is displayed, but 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. 41.