Samsung Galaxy S9 For Dummies

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 S9 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 9 Wireless email 10 Multimedia 11 An intelligent agent 11 Customizing Your Phone with Games and Applications 11 Downloading games 11 Downloading applications 12 What’s cool about the Android platform 12 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 20 Navigating the Galaxy S9 25 The phone’s hardware buttons 25 The touchscreen 29 The extended Home screen 33 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 Call List 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 66 Sending an Attachment with a Text 68 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 73 Setting up a new Gmail account 75 Working with non-Gmail email accounts 77 Setting up a corporate email account 82 Reading Email on Your Phone 85 Writing and Sending Email 86 Replying To and Forwarding Email 88 Chapter 6: Managing Your Contacts 91 Using the Galaxy S9 Contacts App 92 Learning the Contacts App on your phone 92 Deciding where to store your contacts 94 Linking Contacts on your phone 98 Creating Contacts within Your Database 101 Adding contacts as you dial 102 Adding contacts manually 104 How Contacts Make Life Easy 104 Playing Favorites 106 Part 3: Living On the Internet 107 Chapter 7: You’ve Got the Whole (Web) World in Your Hands 109 Starting the Browser 110 Accessing Mobile (or Not) Websites 112 Choosing Your Search Engine 114 Deciding Between Mobile Browsing and Mobile Apps 117 Chapter 8: Playing in Google’s Play Store 119 Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone 120 Getting to the Store 120 Seeing What’s Available: Shopping for Android Apps 122 Navigating the Google Play home page 123 Navigating the Google Play games page 125 Installing and Managing an Android App 127 Downloading the Facebook app 127 Creating a Facebook account 132 Rating or Uninstalling Your Apps 134 Part 4: Having Fun with Your Phone 139 Chapter 9: Sharing Pictures 141 Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone 142 Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera 150 The Photography Mode settings 151 Settings options on the viewfinder 152 Photo Effects options 155 The Digital Camcorder in Your Pocket 156 Starting the camcorder 156 Taking and sharing videos with your camcorder 157 Managing Your Photo Images 157 Using Images on Your Phone 158 Deleting Images on Your Phone 159 Chapter 10: Playing Games 161 The Play Store Games Category 162 The Games Home screen 163 The Games Categories tab 164 Leaving Feedback on Games 167 Chapter 11: Mapping Out Where You Want to Be 171 GPS 101: First Things First 172 Practically Speaking: Using Maps 173 Changing map scale 174 Finding nearby services 176 Getting and Using Directions 179 Upgrading Your Navigation 182 Chapter 12: Playing Music and Videos 185 Being Mindful of Carrier Quirks 186 Getting Ready to Be Entertained 186 Choosing your headset 187 Wired headsets 187 Choosing your Bluetooth speaker 189 Connecting to your stereo 190 Licensing Your Multimedia Files 191 Listening up on licensing 191 Licensing for videos 192 Using the Full Capacity of Your SD Card 192 Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities 194 Grooving with the Play Music app 194 Playing downloaded music 198 Jamming to Internet Radio 203 Looking at your video options 205 Part 5: Getting Down to Business 213 Chapter 13: Using the Calendar 215 Syncing Calendars 215 Setting Calendar Display Preferences 217 Setting Other Display Options 220 Creating an Event on the Right Calendar 222 Creating, editing, and deleting an event 222 Keeping events separate and private 224 Chapter 14: Talking with Bixby 227 Bringing Up Bixby 228 Visualizing What You Can Do with Bixby Vision 233 Blabbing with Bixby 236 Look Ma! No Hands! 237 Setting Up Bixby for Your Voice 237 Dictating a Text 238 Preparing to Work with Bixby 239 Chapter 15: Paying with Samsung Pay 243 How Mobile Payment Works 244 Getting Started with Samsung Pay 246 Setting Up Samsung Pay 248 Using Samsung Pay 253 Managing Samsung Pay 255 Part 6: The Part of Tens 257 Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours 259 Using a Bluetooth Speaker 260 Cruising in the Car 261 Considering Wireless Charging Mats 263 Making a Statement with Wraps 264 You Look Wonderful: Custom Screen Images 265 Empowering Power Savings 267 Controlling Your Home Electronics 268 Wearing Wearables 268 Using Your Phone as a PC 269 Creating Your Own AR Emoji 270 Chapter 17: Ten (Or So) Ways to Make Your Phone Secure 273 Using a Good Case and Screen Cover 274 Putting It on Lockdown 276 Preparing for your Screen Lock option 278 Selecting among the Screen Lock options 278 Entering your fingerprints 279 Entering your face and/or iris 282 Encrypting Your SD Card 283 Using Knox to Make Your Phone as Secure as Fort Knox 284 Being Careful with Bluetooth 285 Protecting Against Malware 287 Downloading Apps Only from Reputable Sources 287 Rescuing Your Phone When It Gets Lost 288 Wiping Your Device Clean 289 Chapter 18: Ten Features to Look for Down the Road 291 Always-on Personal “Dash-cam” 291 Home IoT Services to Differentiate Real Estate 292 New Delivery Concepts 292 Smarter Customer Care for Your Phone 293 Smartphone as Entertainment Hub 294 Driving in Your Car 294 Serving You Better 295 Placing You Indoors 296 Better 911 Services 296 Less Worry about Charging 297 Index 299