To read a message

• Tap a conversation that contains the message you want to read.

  The conversation opens to the first new (unread) message, or to the first starred message, if you’ve previously starred a message in the conversation.

  

  1. Tap the Contact's picture to open Quick Contact.

The Google Talk online status will appear next to the name of the sender of each message if the sender has a Google Account. Tap the contact’s picture to open Quick Contact.

While reading messages in a conversation, you can use the icons at the bottom of the screen to archive the entire conversation , delete it , add a label , or label it as unread . After you archive or delete a conversation, you can tap Undo in the dialog box that appears at the bottom of the screen to undo the last action and restore the message to its previous location.

You can also swipe left and right across the screen to scroll though and read the messages in your Inbox (or the conversation list you’re working in).

While viewing a message, tap the message action icons on the message header to access options which include to mark it as important, to reply to the sender, and to access Reply all to reply to all address and Forward to forward the message to someone else.