PRESENTING DEVICE AVAILABILITY STATUSES

A user of a set of devices may wish to view the availability statuses of respective devices (e.g., an indication of connectivity, and optionally associated information such as battery power and processor availability). However, users are often familiar with availability statuses (and the indicators representing such statuses) of contacts in a chat environment, such as "available," "busy," and "unavailable." Therefore, device availability statuses may be presented using the same semantics and aesthetics of contact availability statuses, e.g., using the statuses and indicators of a chat environment, including an "available" (available and ready to provide services), "busy" (reachable but unable to provide services), and "unavailable" (unreachable). This user interface design may result in a more easily understandable semantics and a more visually consistent user experience.