Nokia N800 - Manual (Page 29)

Internet communication
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Contacts
To manage contact information and start communications
with your contacts, tap
, and select View Contacts .
The main view of the contacts application displays contact
information in two panes: the left pane lists available
groups, and the right pane shows the contacts in the
selected group and their presence status.
To add a contact, select > Contact > New contact... .
To group contacts, drag them into the desired groups. You
can assign a contact to many groups, and a group can
contain many contacts.
To create a new group of contacts, select > Group >
New group... .
To search for a contact, tap in the lower right corner of
the screen. Enter the search words.
To be able to communicate with a contact, you must define
account settings for the internet call and instant
messaging services. For more information, see ‘Accounts’,
p. 27.
Before you can start to communicate with your contacts,
you need to send an authorisation request or response. An
authorisation request is normally sent automatically when
you add a new contact. When a recipient receives an
authorisation request and accepts it, you can see the
recipient’s presence status and can start communication.
When you remove a contact from your address book, the
authorisation is also removed.
To get in contact, select a contact from the list and, in the
contact dialog, tap an available channel for
communication:
to call the contact,
to chat with the contact, and
to send an e-mail message to the contact.
Instant messaging
This application allows you to chat with people over the
internet. To use this feature, you must have an active
network connection, a registered instant messaging
account with a service provider, and a presence status that
allows sending and receiving messages.
To access Instant messaging , tap , and select
New chat . If you have not defined an account, you are
requested to do so. Follow the instructions on the screen
to complete and save the account setting.
To start instant messaging, select a contact from the list,
and tap
.
To enter a chat room, select > Chat >
Enter chat room... . In Enter chat room , enter the name of