My kids spend hours chatting on the phone to their friends.

我的几个孩子在电话上和朋友聊天一聊就是几个小时。

《牛津词典》

People were chatting loudly or speaking on cell phone so you can hardly read," Chen said.

“人们大声聊天或用手机通话，所以你很难阅读。”陈说。

youdao

How does Jane keep in touch with her mother? By making phone calls or chatting online?

简是怎样和她母亲保持联系的？通过打电话或网上聊天？

youdao

He spends most of his days on the phone chatting up asset managers, traders and institutional investors.

FORBES: The Godfather Of ETFs

There's nothing new about mobile phone users chatting with one another via SMS: Indeed, this is one of the applications which leads the GSM Association to predict that 20 billion such text messages will be exchanged by GSM subscribers this year.

CNN: AOL brings instant messenger to mobile phones

Asher recommends using all channels, including face to face chatting, phone, email, snail mail, and social media like LinkedIn and Facebook.

FORBES: Get A Job Using The Hidden Job Market