Google ANDROID 2.3.4 - Manual (Page 202)

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Chat on or off the record
Your Google Talk messages are stored, so you can review them later and even search
for them in the Chats folder in Gmail. But if you’d rather not store the messages in a
chat, you can go off the record.
S On a chat screen, press Menu and touch Chat off record.
To resume saving the messages in the chat, press Menu and touch Chat on
record.
End a chat
When you end a chat, the friend is no longer at the top of your Friends list and the chat
is not displayed in the Switch Chats screen. The text of the chat is not discarded—if
you restart the chat, the conversation is displayed in the new chat window where you
left off.
S In your Friends list, touch & hold the friend you want to stop chatting with. In the
menu that opens, touch End chat.
OR
S While on a chat screen, press Menu and then touch End chat.