Samsung Galaxy S 4 For Dummies E-Book

Bill Hughes

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Seitenzahl: 311

Beschreibung

Explore a world of possibilities with your Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone Everything's more exciting when you've got the Galaxy in your hand. Let For Dummies be your guide to getting the most out of your Galaxy S 4. You'll cruise through the smartphone basics and set up process before moving on to the fun stuff like staying in touch with e-mail and texting, surfing the web, navigating with maps, shooting and sharing photos and video, watching movies, listening to music, and so much more. Whether you're entering the smartphone world for the first time or just moving up to the Galaxy S 4, you'll stay on course with this one-of-a-kind reference. * Provides easy-to-understand advice to help you find your way around your Galaxy S 4 smartphone, get to know all the built-in features, and start making calls * Explains the Galaxy S 4 features using full-color screenshots and images and step-by-step instructions on accessing the Internet, sending and receiving e-mail, texting, taking photos, recording videos, downloading apps, managing your calendar, and organizing your contacts * Shows you easy ways to customize your Galaxy S 4 for your needs with cool apps and accessories You'll experience the world in a whole new way with this spectacular smartphone and Samsung Galaxy S 4 For Dummies by your side!

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Samsung® Galaxy S® 4 For Dummies®

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013936337

ISBN 978-1-118-64222-1 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-118-64565-9 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-65052-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-65053-0 (ebk)

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

What You’re Not to Read

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting Started with the Samsung Galaxy S 4

Part II: Communications

Part III: Live on the Internet: Going Mobile

Part IV: Entertainment Applications

Part V: Productivity Applications

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with the Samsung Galaxy S 4

1: Exploring What You Can Do with Your Phone

Discovering the Basics of Your Phone

Taking Your Phone to the Next Level: The Smartphone Features

Internet access

Photos

Wireless e-mail

Multimedia

Business applications

Customizing Your Phone with Games and Applications

Downloading games

Downloading applications

What’s cool about the Android platform

You and Your Shadow: Understanding How Your Cellular Carrier Bills You

Voice usage

Text usage

Data usage

Another consideration: Family plans

Yet one more consideration: International usage

One final consideration: Web subscription fees

Surviving Unboxing Day

2: Beginning at the Beginning

First Things First: Turning On Your Phone

The peel-off back for the Galaxy S 4

Now that you have the back off . . .

Charging Your Phone and Managing Battery Life

Navigating the Galaxy S 4

The phone’s hardware buttons

The touchscreen

Air Gesture, Air View, and eye gestures

The extended Home screen

The notification area and screen

The primary shortcuts

The Device Function keys

The keyboard

The orientation of the phone

Going to Sleep Mode/Turning Off the Phone

Part II: Communications

3: Calling People

Making Calls

Answering Calls

Keeping Track of Your Calls: The Call List

Making an Emergency Call: The 411 on 911

Synching a Bluetooth Headset

4: Discovering the Joy of Text

Sending the First Text Message

Carrying on a Conversation via Texting

Sending an Attachment with a Text

Receiving Text Messages

Managing Your Text History

5: Sending and Receiving E-Mail

Setting Up Your E-Mail

Getting ready

Setting up your existing Gmail account

Setting up a new Gmail account

Working with non-Gmail e-mail accounts

Setting up a corporate e-mail account

Reading E-Mail on Your Phone

Writing and Sending an E-Mail

Replying to and Forwarding E-mails

6: Managing Your Contacts

Bringing It All Together

Using the Galaxy S 4 Contact Database

Learning the Contact Database on your phone

Linking Contacts on your phone

Grasping the link between the Contact database on your phone and Gmail

Entering the Contacts on Your SIM Card

Creating Contacts within Your Database

Adding contacts as you communicate

Adding contacts when you are dialing

Adding contacts manually

Seeing How Contacts Make Life Easy

Playing Favorites

Part III: Live on the Internet: Going Mobile

7: You’ve Got the Whole (Web) World in Your Hands

Starting the Browser

Accessing Mobile (Or Not) Websites

Navigating the Browser

Using Bookmarks

Adding bookmarks

Bookmark housekeeping

Navigating Multiple Browser Sessions

Googling Your Way to the Information You Need: Mobile Google Searches

8: Introducing Google’s Play Store

Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone

Getting to the Store

Seeing What’s Available: Shopping for Android Apps

Installing and Managing the Facebook for Android App

Downloading the Facebook app

Creating an account

Managing Facebook Settings

Rating and Uninstalling Your Apps

Part IV: Entertainment Applications

9: Sharing Pictures

Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone

Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera

The Mode setting

Other options

The Digital Camcorder in Your Pocket

Starting the camcorder

Taking and sharing videos with your camcorder

Managing Your Photo Images

Using Images on Your Phone

Deleting an image

Viewing images on your phone

Sharing Your Photos

10: Playing Games

The Play Store Games Category

Leaving Feedback on Games

11: Mapping Out Where You Want to Be

Figuring Out GPS 101: First Things First

Practically Speaking: Using Maps

Changing map scale

Finding nearby services

Getting and Using Directions

Letting Others Know Where You Are

12: Playing Music and Video

Being Mindful of Carrier Quirks

Getting Ready to be Entertained

Choosing your headset options

Connecting to your stereo or TV

Licensing your multimedia files

Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities

Grooving with the Music Player app

Playing downloaded music

Jamming to Internet radio

Looking at your video options

Skyping with Your Galaxy S 4

Signing in to Skype

Creating Skype contacts

Setting up a Skype video chat

Part V: Productivity Applications

13: Using the Calendar

Syncing Calendars

Changing Sync Frequency

Setting Calendar Display Preferences

Setting Other Display Options

Creating an Event on the Right Calendar

Creating, editing, and deleting an event

Keeping events separate and private

14: On the Road Again: Taking Your Work with You on Your Phone

Preparing for Using Office Apps

Focusing on the Big Three

Accessing the Office files

Cloud computing

Using a VPN

Reading and Editing Files with Your Phone

Creating a document

Sending an Office file as an attachment

Managing Office documents with a server

15: Chatting Up Your Phone with S-Voice

Look Ma! No Hands!

Dictating a Text

Preparing to Work with S-Voice

Searching the Web by Voice

Updating Your Facebook Status

Changing Settings on S-Voice

Part VI: The Part of Tens

16: Ten (Or So) Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours

Your Phone Is Watching You

Making a Statement with Wraps

Cruising with a Bluetooth Car Speaker

Maximizing Shortcuts from Home

You Look Mahvelous: Custom Screen Images

Personalizing Your App List

A Bluetooth-Connected Watch

Tracking Health and Fitness

Buddy Photo-Sharing with Ease

S Beam Me Up, Scotty

Driving in Style with a Car Docking Station

17: Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Secure

Use a Good Case and Screen Cover

Put a Screen Lock on Your Phone

Preparing for your Screen Lock option

Selecting among the Screen Lock options

Encrypt Your Device

Put Your Contact Number on the Screensaver

Be Careful with Bluetooth

Back Up Your Phone

Protect Against Malware

Don’t Download Apps from Just Anywhere

Rescue Your Phone When It Gets Lost

Wipe Your Device Clean

18: Ten Features to Look for Down the Road

Live Status Updates on a Secure Screen

“Galaxy-Ready” as a Marketing Tool

Control of Your Home Electronics

Entertainment Selector

Information Finder

More and Better Health Sensors

Better 911 Services

Simpler Bluetooth Pairing

More Body English/Less Tapping

Sturdier and Stronger

About the Author

Cheat Sheet

Introduction

The Samsung Galaxy S 4 is a powerful smartphone, perhaps the most powerful phone ever sold. As of the publication of this book, the Galaxy S 4 is the standard against which all other Android-based phones are measured.

Each cellular carrier offers a slightly customized version of the Galaxy S 4. Some cellular carriers’ phones come out of the box with preloaded applications, games, or files. Some come with accessories, like a corded headset, whereas others don’t. This book doesn’t dwell on these kinds of differences.

Although the name for each network is different, these phones are largely the same (at least one marketing person at each cellular carrier is cringing as you read this). This allows me to write this book in a way that covers the common capabilities.

At a core level, these phones are built for high-speed wireless communications. The cellular carriers have spent kajillions upgrading their networks to offer more coverage and better data speeds than their competition. Again, this book doesn’t dwell on these differences in network technology because they don’t really make much difference (again, at least one engineering person at each cellular carrier is cringing as you read this).