Bill Hughes is a veteran marketing strategy executive who has led initiatives to develop new products and solutions. He has worked for Xerox, Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Motorola, and US West Cellular, and has written articles for several wireless industry trade magazines, as well as for USA Today and Forbes.
Introduction 1 About This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Getting Started with the Samsung Galaxy S10 5 Chapter 1: Exploring What You Can Do with Your Phone 7 Discovering the Basics of Your Phone 7 Taking Your Phone to the Next Level: The Smartphone Features 8 Internet access 9 Photos 10 Wireless email 11 Multimedia 11 An intelligent agent 11 Customizing Your Phone with Games and Applications 11 Downloading games 12 Downloading applications 12 What's cool about the Android platform 13 Surviving Unboxing Day 13 Chapter 2: Beginning at the Beginning 17 First Things First: Turning on Your Phone 17 Charging Your Phone and Managing Battery Life 19 Navigating the Galaxy S10 26 The phone's hardware buttons 26 The touchscreen 29 The extended Home screen 34 The notification area and screen 38 The Device Function keys 40 The keyboard 41 The orientation of the phone 42 Going to Sleep Mode/Turning Off the Phone 43 Part 2: Communicating with Other People 45 Chapter 3: Calling People 47 Making Calls 47 Answering Calls 52 Keeping Track of Your Calls: The Recents 54 Making an Emergency Call: The 411 on 911 56 Syncing a Bluetooth Headset 57 Options Other than Headsets 59 Chapter 4: Discovering the Joy of Text 61 Sending the First Text Message 61 Carrying on a Conversation via Texting 65 Sending an Attachment with a Text 67 Receiving Text Messages 69 Managing Your Text History 69 Chapter 5: Sending and Receiving Email 71 Setting Up Your Email 71 Getting ready 72 Setting up your existing Gmail account 72 Setting up a new Gmail account 75 Working with non-Gmail email accounts 76 Setting up a corporate email account 82 Reading Email on Your Phone 84 Writing and Sending Email 85 Replying to and Forwarding Email 87 Chapter 6: Managing Your Contacts 89 Using the Galaxy S10 Contacts App 90 Learning the Contacts App on your phone 90 Deciding where to store your contacts 93 Linking Contacts on your phone 95 Creating Contacts within Your Database 98 Adding contacts as you dial 98 Adding contacts manually 100 How Contacts Make Life Easy 101 Playing Favorites 103 Part 3: Living on the Internet 105 Chapter 7: You've Got the Whole (Web) World in Your Hands 107 Starting the Browser 108 Accessing Mobile (or Not) Websites 109 Choosing Your Search Engine 112 Deciding Between Mobile Browsing and Mobile Apps 115 Chapter 8: Playing in Google's Play Store 117 Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone 118 Getting to the Store 118 Seeing What's Available: Shopping for Android Apps 120 Navigating the Google Play home page 121 Navigating the Google Play games page 123 Installing and Managing an Android App 125 Downloading the Facebook app 125 Creating a Facebook account 130 Rating or Uninstalling Your Apps 132 Part 4: Having Fun with Your Phone 135 Chapter 9: Sharing Pictures 137 Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone 138 Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera 147 The Photography Mode settings 147 Settings options on the viewfinder 148 Photo Effects options 152 The Digital Camcorder in Your Pocket 152 Starting the camcorder 152 Taking and sharing videos with your camcorder 153 Managing Your Photo Images 154 Using Images on Your Phone 155 Deleting Images on Your Phone 155 Chapter 10: Playing Games 157 The Play Store Games Category 158 The Games Home screen 159 The Games Categories tab 160 Leaving Feedback on Games 162 Chapter 11: Mapping Out Where You Want to Be 167 GPS 101: First Things First 168 Practically Speaking: Using Maps 169 Changing map scale 170 Finding nearby services 172 Getting and Using Directions 175 Upgrading Your Navigation 177 Chapter 12: Playing Music and Videos 181 Getting Ready to Be Entertained 182 Choosing your headset 182 Wired headsets 183