Table of Contents
Introduction 1
About This Book 2
What You're Not to Read 3
Foolish Assumptions 3
How This Book Is Organized 4
Part 1 Getting Started with the Samsung Galaxy S7 4
Part 2 Communications 4
Part 3 Live on the Internet: Going Mobile 4
Part 4 Entertainment Applications 4
Part 5 Productivity Applications 5
Part 6 The Part of Tens 5
Icons Used in This Book 5
Beyond the Book 5
Where to Go from Here 6
Part 1 Getting Started with the Samsun Galaxy S7 7
Chapter 1 Exploring What You Can Do With Your Phone 9
Discovering the Basics of Your Phone 9
Taking Your Phone to the Next Level: The Smartphone Features 10
Internet access 11
Photos 11
Wireless email 12
Multimedia 13
Business applications 13
Customizing Your Phone with Games and Applications 13
Downloading games 13
Downloading applications 14
What's cool about the Android platform 14
Surviving Unboxing Day 15
Chapter 2 Beginning at the Beginning 19
First Things First: Turning On Your Phone 19
Charging Your Phone and Managing Battery Life 22
Navigating the Galaxy S7 25
The phone's hardware buttons 26
The touchscreen 30
The extended Home screen 35
The notification area and screen 40
The Device Function keys 41
The keyboard 43
The orientation of the phone 44
Going to Sleep Mode/Turning Off the Phone 45
Part 2 Communications 47
Chapter 3 Calling People 49
Making Calls 49
Answering Calls 54
Keeping Track of Your Calls: The Call List 55
Making an Emergency Call: The 411 on 911 58
Syncing a Bluetooth Headset 59
Options Other than Headsets 61
Chapter 4 Discovering the Joy of Text 63
Sending the First Text Message 63
Carrying on a Conversation via Texting 68
Sending an Attachment with a Text 70
Receiving Text Messages 71
Managing Your Text History 72
Chapter 5 Sending and Receiving Email 73
Setting Up Your Email 73
Getting ready 74
Setting up your existing Gmail account 75
Setting up a new Gmail account 77
Working with non-Gmail email accounts 79
Setting up a corporate email account 83
Reading Email on Your Phone 86
Writing and Sending Email 87
Replying To and Forwarding Email 90
Chapter 6 Managing Your Contacts 93
Using the Galaxy S7 Contacts App 94
Learning the Contacts App on your phone 94
Deciding where to store your contacts 97
Linking Contacts on your phone 99
Creating Contacts within Your Database 103
Adding contacts as you dial 104
Adding contacts manually 106
How Contacts Make Life Easy 107
Playing Favorites 108
Part 3 Live on the Internet: Going Mobile 109
Chapter 7 You've Got the Whole (Web) World in Your Hands 111
Starting the Browser 112
Accessing Mobile (or Not) Websites 113
Getting Around in the Browser 116
Using Bookmarks 119
Adding bookmarks 119
Bookmark housekeeping 120
Deciding between Mobile Browsing and Mobile Apps 121
Chapter 8 Playing in Google's Play Store 123
Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone 124
Getting to the Store 124
Seeing What's Available: Shopping for Android Apps 126
Subcategories for Apps and Games 127
Subcategories for Entertainment 127
Curated categories 128
The timeless categories for Apps and Games 128
Installing and Managing an Android App 131
Downloading the Facebook app 131
Creating a Facebook account 136
Rating or Uninstalling Your Apps 138
Part 4 Entertainment Applications 143
Chapter 9 Sharing Pictures 145
Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone 146
Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera 154
The Mode setting 155
Settings options on the viewfinder 157
Effects options 160
The Digital Camcorder in Your Pocket 160
Starting the camcorder 160
Taking and sharing videos with your camcorder 161
Managing Your Photo Images 162
Using Images on Your Phone 163
Deleting Images on Your Phone 164
Chapter 10 Playing Games 165
The Play Store Games Category 165
The Games Home screen 168
The Games Categories tab 168
Leaving Feedback on Games 171
Chapter 11 Mapping Out Where You Want to Be 177
GPS 101: First Things First 178
Practically Speaking: Using Maps 179
Changing map scale 180
Finding nearby services 182
Getting and Using Directions 184
Upgrading Your Navigation 187
Chapter 12 Playing Music and Videos 189
Being Mindful of Carrier Quirks 190
Getting Ready to Be Entertained 190
Choosing your headset 191
Choosing your Bluetooth speaker 193
Connecting to your stereo 194
Licensing Your Multimedia Files 195
Listening up on licensing 195
Licensing for videos 196
Using the Full Capacity of Your SD Card 196
Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities 198
Grooving with the Play Music app 198
Playing downloaded music 202
Jamming to Internet Radio 206
Looking at your video options 209
Part 5 Productivity Applications 217
Chapter 13 Using the Calendar 219
Syncing Calendars 219
Setting Calendar Display Preferences 221
Setting Other Display Options 224
Creating an Event on the Right Calendar 226
Creating, editing, and deleting an event 226
Keeping events separate and private 229
Chapter 14 On the Road Again: Taking Your Work with You on Your Phone 231
Preparing for Using Office Apps 232
Focusing on the Big Four 232
Accessing the Office files 233
Using cloud storage 234
Using a VPN 234
Reading and Editing Files with Your Phone 235
Creating a document 236
Sending an Office file as an attachment 240
Managing Office documents with a server 241
Chapter 15 Paying with Samsung Pay 245
How Mobile Payment Works 246
Getting Started with Samsung Pay 247
Setting Up Samsung Pay 250
Using Samsung Pay 255
Managing Samsung Pay 257
Part 6 The Part of Tens 259
Chapter 16 Ten (or So) Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours 261
Using a Bluetooth Speaker 262
Cruising in the Car 263
Considering Wireless Charging Mats 265
Your Phone Is Watching You 266
Making a Statement with Wraps 266
You Look Mahvelous: Custom Screen Images 267
Empowering Power Savings 268
Setting Do Not Disturb Options 269
Wearing Wearables 271
Daydreaming While You Work 271
Chapter 17 Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Secure 273
Use a Good Case and Screen Cover 274
Put It on Lock Down 276
Preparing for your Screen Lock option 278
Selecting among the Screen Lock options 278
Entering your fingerprint 279
Encrypt Your SD Card 283
As Secure as Fort Knox with Knox 284
Create a Private Mode 285
Be Careful with Bluetooth 289
Protect Against Malware 291
Don't Download Apps from Just Anywhere 291
Rescue Your Phone When It Gets Lost 292
Wipe Your Device Clean 293
Chapter 18 Ten Features to Look for Down the Road 295
Smarter Customer Care for Your Phone 295
Control of Your Home Electronics 296
Entertainment Selector 297
Serving You Better 298
Placing You Indoors 299
Augmenting Your Reality 299
More and Better Health Sensors 300
Better 911 Services 301
Less Worry about Charging 301
Information Finder 302
Index 303
