Windows Phone Thoughts: PPCW.net: What's With the Yellow Icons in Messenger?

Those of you who are using MSN Messenger 6.2 might have seen yellow icons appearing for some of their contacts. If you were wondering about them, you should read Carlo Guerrero's article on PPCW.net that explains where they're coming from, and how cool those yellow contacts really are.

"A Green icon simply means that the person is signed into MSN Messenger using a PC. A Green icon with a mobile phone icon means that the person is signed into MSN Messenger on a mobile device (Pocket PC via cellular phone connection, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone, Symbian-powered devices such as the Series 60 and UIQ). A Yellow Mobile icon if the person is Offline and opts to be notified via SMS on an SMS capable phone such as a Nokia, Sony-Ericsson,  Panasonic, Siemens and of course Pocket PC Phone Edition and Smartphone too. A Red icon simply means that the offline contact can only be reached via email."

Mobile users will only appear as yellow contacts after they've opted in to this way of receiving messages through MSN Mobile, which might not be available in your country though. You see? Yellow is cool since yellow means mobile.