Samsung Galaxy S8 For Dummies

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part 1 Getting Started with the Samsung Galaxy S8

Chapter 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 email

Multimedia

An intelligent agent

Customizing Your Phone with Games and Applications

Downloading games

Downloading applications

What’s cool about the Android platform

Surviving Unboxing Day

Chapter 2 Beginning at the Beginning

First Things First: Turning On Your Phone

Charging Your Phone and Managing Battery Life

Navigating the Galaxy S8

The phone’s hardware buttons

The touchscreen

The extended Home screen

The notification area and screen

The Device Function keys

The keyboard

The orientation of the phone

Going to Sleep Mode/Turning Off the Phone

Part 2 Communicating with Other People

Chapter 3 Calling People

Making Calls

Answering Calls

Keeping Track of Your Calls: The Call List

Making an Emergency Call: The 411 on 911

Syncing a Bluetooth Headset

Options Other than Headsets

Chapter 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

Chapter 5 Sending and Receiving Email

Setting Up Your Email

Getting ready

Setting up your existing Gmail account

Setting up a new Gmail account

Working with non-Gmail email accounts

Setting up a corporate email account

Reading Email on Your Phone

Writing and Sending Email

Replying To and Forwarding Email

Chapter 6 Managing Your Contacts

Using the Galaxy S8 Contacts App

Learning the Contacts App on your phone

Deciding where to store your contacts

Linking Contacts on your phone

Creating Contacts within Your Database

Adding contacts as you dial

Adding contacts manually

How Contacts Make Life Easy

Playing Favorites

Part 3 Living on the Internet

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

Starting the Browser

Accessing Mobile (or Not) Websites

Choosing Your Search Engine

Using Bookmarks

Adding bookmarks

Bookmark housekeeping

Deciding Between Mobile Browsing and Mobile Apps

Chapter 8 Playing in 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

Subcategories for Apps and Games

Subcategories for Entertainment

Curated categories

The timeless categories for apps and games

Installing and Managing an Android App

Downloading the Facebook app

Creating a Facebook account

Rating or Uninstalling Your Apps

Part 4 Having Fun with Your Phone

Chapter 9 Sharing Pictures

Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone

Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera

The Camera Effects settings

Settings options on the viewfinder

Photo Effects 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 Images on Your Phone

Chapter 10 Playing Games

The Play Store Games Category

The Games Home screen

The Games Categories tab

Leaving Feedback on Games

Chapter 11 Mapping Out Where You Want to Be

GPS 101: First Things First

Practically Speaking: Using Maps

Changing map scale

Finding nearby services

Getting and Using Directions

Upgrading Your Navigation

Chapter 12 Playing Music and Videos

Being Mindful of Carrier Quirks

Getting Ready to Be Entertained

Choosing your headset

Choosing your Bluetooth speaker

Connecting to your stereo

Licensing Your Multimedia Files

Listening up on licensing

Licensing for videos

Using the Full Capacity of Your SD Card

Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities

Grooving with the Play Music app

Playing downloaded music

Jamming to Internet Radio

Looking at your video options

Part 5 Getting Down to Business

Chapter 13 Using the Calendar

Syncing Calendars

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

Chapter 14 Talking with Bixby

Bringing Up Bixby

Visualizing What You Can Do with Bixby Vision

Blabbing with Bixby

Look Ma! No Hands!

Dictating a Text

Preparing to Work with Bixby

Chapter 15 Paying with Samsung Pay

How Mobile Payment Works

Getting Started with Samsung Pay

Setting Up Samsung Pay

Using Samsung Pay

Managing Samsung Pay

Part 6 The Part of Tens

Chapter 16 Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours

Using a Bluetooth Speaker

Cruising in the Car

Considering Wireless Charging Mats

Using a Keyboard Cover

Making a Statement with Wraps

You Look Wonderful: Custom Screen Images

Empowering Power Savings

Controlling Your Home Electronics

Wearing Wearables

Using Your Phone as a PC

Chapter 17 Ten (Or So) Ways to Make Your Phone Secure

Using a Good Case and Screen Cover

Putting It on Lockdown

Preparing for your Screen Lock option

Selecting among the Screen Lock options

Entering your fingerprints

Entering your face and/or iris

Encrypting Your SD Card

Using Knox to Make Your Phone as Secure as Fort Knox

Being Careful with Bluetooth

Protecting Against Malware

Downloading Apps Only from Reputable Sources

Rescuing Your Phone When It Gets Lost

Wiping Your Device Clean

Index

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