Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof within a chat application

摘要

A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a user is enabled to quickly recognize chat contents (e.g., speakers, chat subjects, chat contexts, etc.) of a chat with counterparts in a manner of partitioning a chat content display window into regions per counterpart belonging to a chat group and then arranging and displaying the chat contents of the chat with the corresponding counterparts on the partitioned regions per time line, respectively.