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
