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Before you can use presence, you need to subscribe to the service. To check the 
availability, for charging details and to subscribe to the service, contact your 
network operator or service provider, from whom you also receive your unique ID 
and password and the settings for the service. To set the required settings for the 
presence service, see Instant messaging settings on page 79. While you have 
connected to the presence service, you can use the other functions of the phone, 
and the presence service is active in the background.
Press Menu and select Contacts and My presence. Select
• Connect to 'My presence' service (or Disconnect) to connect to (or to 
disconnect from) the service.
• My current presence to change your presence status. Select 
• View current presence and select Private pres. or Public presence to view 
your current private or public status.
• My availability to set your availability status to Available indicated by  , 
or to Busy indicated by  , or to Not available indicated by  .
• My presence message and key in the text to be shown to other persons or 
press Options and select Previous msgs. and select an old message as the 
status message.
• My presence logo to select your personal logo from the Graphics folder in 
the gallery. If you select the Default, the logo is not published.
• Show to to select the groups to whom you want to show your presence 
status or if not to show it at all.