Google ANDROID 2.3.4 - Manual (Page 200)

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Chatting by text
You can chat with friends by exchanging text messages.
If your friends have a microphone or camera on the device where they're using Google
Talk, you can also invite them to chat by voice or by video. See “Chatting by voice or
video” on page 198
Chat with a friend
1 Touch a friend in your Friends list.
If you’re already chatting with someone, you can press Menu and touch
Friends list to invite another friend to chat.
The chat screen opens.
2 Enter your message and touch Send.
The messages that you exchange are interleaved on the screen with information
about the chat, such as whether it’s on the record, the time a message was sent if
there’s no response after a short while, and so on.
You can enter a smiley icon (an emoticon) on the onscreen keyboard by touching &
holding the Smiley key and then touching a smiley. You can also press Menu
and touch More > Insert smiley to open a scrolling list of smileys.
Your chat session remains open until you end it.
Friends you’re chatting with are displayed at the top of your Friends list.
Who you’re chatting with and their online
status.
Messages you exchange are interleaved
with information about the chat, such as
whether it’s on the record.
Enter a message and touch Send.