Starting a chat conversation
Enter the
Chat
menu and connect to the chat service. You can select
•
Conversations
to view the list of new and read chats or invitations to chats
during the current active chat session. Scroll to the message you want and
press
Options
. Select
Read invitation
to read the invitation or
Open
to read the
message.
indicates the new and
the read chat messages.
indicates the new and
read group messages.
indicates the invitations.
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2004 Nokia. All rights reserved.
•
Chat contacts
includes the contacts that you have added from the phone’s
contacts memory. Scroll to the contact with whom you would like to chat,
press
Options
and select
Chat
.
If you have received a new message from a contact, it is indicated with
.
indicates the online and
the offline contacts in the phone’s contacts
memory.
indicates a blocked contact, refer to
Blocking and unblocking messages
on
page
77
.
To add contacts to the list, see
Contacts for the chat
on page
76
.
•
Groups
and
Public groups
. The list of bookmarks to public groups provided by
the network operator or service provider is displayed. To start a chat
conversation, scroll to a group, press
Options
and select
Join group
. Enter your
screen name that you want to use as a nickname in the conversation. When
you have successfully joined in the group conversation, the phone shows
Joined group:
and the group name and you can start a group chat. To create a
private group, see
Groups
on page
78
.
•
Search
and select
Users
or
Groups
to search for other chat users or public
groups on the network.
• If you select
Users
, you can search for a user 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.
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To start the chat when you have found the user or the group you want, press
Options
and select
Chat
or
Join group
.
• To start a chat from Contacts, see
Viewing the subscribed names
on page
95
.