Introduction |
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About This Book |
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PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S8 |
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Chapter 1 Exploring What You Can Do with Your Phone |
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Discovering the Basics of Your Phone |
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Taking Your Phone to the Next Level: The Smartphone Features |
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Customizing Your Phone with Games and Applications |
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What's cool about the Android platform |
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Chapter 2 Beginning at the Beginning |
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First Things First: Turning On Your Phone |
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Charging Your Phone and Managing Battery Life |
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The phone's hardware buttons |
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The notification area and screen |
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The orientation of the phone |
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Going to Sleep Mode/Turning Off the Phone |
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PART 2 COMMUNICATING WITH OTHER PEOPLE |
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Keeping Track of Your Calls: The Call List |
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Making an Emergency Call: The 411 on 911 |
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Syncing a Bluetooth Headset |
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Options Other than Headsets |
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Chapter 4 Discovering the Joy of Text |
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Sending the First Text Message |
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Carrying on a Conversation via Texting |
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Sending an Attachment with a Text |
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Managing Your Text History |
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Chapter 5 Sending and Receiving Email |
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Setting up your existing Gmail account |
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Setting up a new Gmail account |
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Working with non-Gmail email accounts |
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Setting up a corporate email account |
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Reading Email on Your Phone |
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Writing and Sending Email |
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Replying To and Forwarding Email |
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Chapter 6 Managing Your Contacts |
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Using the Galaxy S8 Contacts App |
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Learning the Contacts App on your phone |
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Deciding where to store your contacts |
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Linking Contacts on your phone |
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Creating Contacts within Your Database |
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Adding contacts as you dial |
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How Contacts Make Life Easy |
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PART 3 LIVING ON THE INTERNET |
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Chapter 7 You've Got the Whole (Web) World in Your Hands |
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Accessing Mobile (or Not) Websites |
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Choosing Your Search Engine |
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Deciding Between Mobile Browsing and Mobile Apps |
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Chapter 8 Playing in Google's Play Store |
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Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone |
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Seeing What's Available: Shopping for Android Apps |
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Subcategories for Apps and Games |
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Subcategories for Entertainment |
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The timeless categories for apps and games |
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Installing and Managing an Android App |
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Downloading the Facebook app |
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Creating a Facebook account |
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Rating or Uninstalling Your Apps |
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PART 4 HAVING FUN WITH YOUR PHONE |
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Chapter 9 Sharing Pictures |
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Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone |
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Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera |
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The Camera Effects settings |
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Settings options on the viewfinder |
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The Digital Camcorder in Your Pocket |
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Taking and sharing videos with your camcorder |
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158 | (1) |
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Managing Your Photo Images |
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Using Images on Your Phone |
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Deleting Images on Your Phone |
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The Play Store Games Category |
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Leaving Feedback on Games |
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Chapter 11 Mapping Out Where You Want to Be |
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GPS 101: First Things First |
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Practically Speaking: Using Maps |
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Getting and Using Directions |
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Upgrading Your Navigation |
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Chapter 12 Playing Music and Videos |
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Being Mindful of Carrier Quirks |
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Getting Ready to Be Entertained |
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Choosing your Bluetooth speaker |
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Connecting to your stereo |
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Licensing Your Multimedia Files |
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Listening up on licensing |
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Using the Full Capacity of Your SD Card |
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Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities |
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Grooving with the Play Music app |
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Jamming to Internet Radio |
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Looking at your video options |
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PART 5 GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS |
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Chapter 13 Using the Calendar |
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Setting Calendar Display Preferences |
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Setting Other Display Options |
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Creating an Event on the Right Calendar |
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Creating, editing, and deleting an event |
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Keeping events separate and private |
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Chapter 14 Talking with Bixby |
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Visualizing What You Can Do with Bixby Vision |
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Preparing to Work with Bixby |
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Chapter 15 Paying with Samsung Pay |
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245 | (2) |
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Getting Started with Samsung Pay |
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247 | (3) |
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250 | (5) |
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Chapter 16 Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours |
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Using a Bluetooth Speaker |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (2) |
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Considering Wireless Charging Mats |
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265 | (1) |
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Making a Statement with Wraps |
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You Look Wonderful: Custom Screen Images |
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268 | (2) |
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270 | (1) |
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Controlling Your Home Electronics |
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270 | (1) |
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Chapter 17 Ten (Or So) Ways to Make Your Phone Secure |
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Using a Good Case and Screen Cover |
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274 | (2) |
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276 | (2) |
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Preparing for your Screen Lock option |
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278 | (1) |
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Selecting among the Screen Lock options |
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279 | (1) |
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Entering your fingerprints |
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280 | (2) |
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Entering your face and/or iris |
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282 | (2) |
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284 | (1) |
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Using Knox to Make Your Phone as Secure as Fort Knox |
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285 | (1) |
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Being Careful with Bluetooth |
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286 | (2) |
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Protecting Against Malware |
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288 | (1) |
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Downloading Apps Only from Reputable Sources |
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289 | (1) |
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Rescuing Your Phone When It Gets Lost |
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289 | (2) |
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Index |
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