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
Whats 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 phones 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 Internet105
Chapter 7: Youve 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 Googles Play Store 117
Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone 118
Getting to the Store 118
Seeing Whats 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 Pictures137
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 Be167
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
Choosing your Bluetooth speaker 185
Connecting to your stereo 186
Licensing Your Multimedia Files 187
Listening up on licensing 187
Licensing for videos 188
Using the Full Capacity of Your SD Card 189
Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities 190
Grooving with the Play Music app 190
Playing downloaded music 194
Jamming to Internet Radio 199
Looking at your video options 201
Part 5: Getting Down to Business 209
Chapter 13: Using the Calendar 211
Syncing Calendars 211
Setting Calendar Display Preferences 213
Setting Other Display Options 216
Creating an Event on the Right Calendar 218
Creating, editing, and deleting an event 218
Keeping events separate and private 220
Chapter 14: Talking with Bixby 223
Bringing Up Bixby 224
Visualizing What You Can Do with Bixby Vision 226
Blabbing with Bixby 228
Look Ma! No Hands! 229
Setting Up Bixby for Your Voice 230
Dictating a Text 230
Preparing to Work with Bixby 231
Chapter 15: Paying with Samsung Pay 237
How Mobile Payment Works 238
Getting Started with Samsung Pay 240
Setting Up Samsung Pay 242
Using Samsung Pay 246
Managing Samsung Pay 247
Part 6: The Part of Tens 249
Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours 251
Using a Bluetooth Speaker 252
Cruising in the Car 253
Considering Wireless Charging Mats 255
Making a Statement with Wraps 256
You Look Wonderful: Custom Screen Images 257
Empowering Power Savings 259
Controlling Your Home Electronics 260
Wearing Wearables 260
Using Your Phone as a PC 261
Creating Your Own AR Emoji 262
Chapter 17: Ten (Or So) Ways to Make Your Phone Secure265
Using a Good Case 266
Putting it on Lockdown 268
Preparing for your Screen Lock option 271
Selecting among the Screen Lock options 271
Entering your face 273
Entering your fingerprints 274
Encrypting Your SD Card 275
Using Knox to Make Your Phone as Secure as Fort Knox 277
Being Careful with Bluetooth 278
Protecting Against Malware 279
Downloading Apps Only from Reputable Sources 280
Rescuing Your Phone When it Gets Lost 280
Wiping Your Device Clean 282
Chapter 18: Ten Features to Look for Down the Road 283
Always-on Personal Dash-cam 283
Home IoT Services to Differentiate Real Estate 284
New Delivery Concepts 284
Smarter Customer Care for Your Phone 285
Smartphone as Entertainment Hub 286
Driving in Your Car 286
Serving You Better 287
Placing You Indoors 288
Better 911 Services 288
Less Worry about Charging 289
Index 291
