[iDriveX]

I log onto iChat about every day or every other day just to chat with a few people for a few minutes. Today I noticed that a cell phone I frequently send text messages to, and unsuccessfully had tried to add to the buddy list in the past, was now in the buddy list. Curiously, I added a new group to Address Book called "iChat Cells" and added a few friends' names to the group. In iChat I then added their cell phone to the buddy list using the "+1xxxxxxxxxx" screen name and then linked their buddy list listing to the address book card and sure enough everything is working! When people send me text messages I get a box that pops up that says "Joe's Cell"...Just FYI for everyone else

[eatinwokout]

always nice to know. i've been using adium but it's nice to know that ichat has finally added that much needed feature.

now if sprint phones would just accept messages from aim users.

[iDriveX]

There was no iChat update so I would imagine this is core buddy list functionality that AOL has added to it's instant messaging back end. I don't think this was an Apple issue at all. I could be wrong.