Table of Contents
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 S22 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
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 18
Charging Your Phone and Managing Battery Life 20
Navigating the Galaxy S22 25
The phone's hardware buttons 25
The touchscreen 28
The extended Home screen 32
The notification area and screen 37
The Device Function keys 38
The keyboard 39
The orientation of the phone 41
Going to Sleep Mode/Turning Off the Phone 41
Part 2 Communicating with other People 43
Chapter 3 Calling People 45
Making Calls 45
Answering Calls 48
Keeping Track of Your Calls: The Recents 51
Making an Emergency Call: The 411 on 911 53
Syncing a Bluetooth Headset 55
Options Other than Headsets 57
Chapter 4 Discovering the Joy of Text 59
Sending the First Text Message 59
Carrying on a Conversation via Texting 64
Sending an Attachment with a Text 66
Receiving Text Messages 67
Managing Your Text History 67
Chapter 5 Sending and Receiving Email 69
Setting Up Your Email 69
Getting ready 70
Setting up your existing Gmail account 71
Setting up a new Gmail account 73
Working with non-Gmail email accounts 74
Setting up a corporate email account 79
Reading Email on Your Phone 82
Writing and Sending Email 83
Replying to and Forwarding Email 85
Chapter 6 Managing Your Contacts 87
Using the Galaxy S22 Contacts App 88
Learning the Contacts app on your phone 88
Deciding where to store your contacts 91
Linking Contacts on your phone 94
Creating Contacts within Your Database 97
Adding contacts as you dial 98
Adding contacts manually 100
How Contacts Make Life Easy 101
Playing Favorites 102
Part 3 Living on the Internet 105
Chapter 7 You've Got the Whole (Web) World in Your Hands 107
Starting the Browser 108
Accessing Mobile (or Not) Websites 110
Choosing Your Search Engine 111
Deciding between Mobile Browsing and Mobile Apps 114
Chapter 8 Playing in Google's Play Store 117
Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone 118
Getting to the Store 118
Seeing What's Available: Shopping for Android Apps 120
Navigating the Google Play apps offerings 121
Installing and Managing an Android App 124
Rating or Uninstalling Your Apps 130
Part 4 Having Fun with Your Phone 135
Chapter 9 Sharing Pictures 137
Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone 139
Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera 148
Using the Photo mode settings 148
Settings options on the viewfinder 149
Photo Effects options 151
Visualizing What You Can Do with Bixby Vision 152
Managing Your Photo Images 153
Using Images on Your Phone 154
Deleting Images on Your Phone 155
Chapter 10 Creating Videos 157
Ready … Action! Taking a Video with Your Phone 158
Taking Videography to the Next Level 162
The Video mode settings 162
Settings options on the viewfinder 163
Messing with the AR Doodle option 165
Chapter 11 Playing Games 167
The Play Store Games Category 168
The Games Home screen 169
The Games Categories tab 170
Leaving Feedback on Games 173
Chapter 12 Playing Music and Videos 179
Getting Ready to Be Entertained 180
Choosing your headset 180
Wired headsets 181
Choosing your Bluetooth speaker 183
Connecting to your stereo 184
Licensing Your Multimedia Files 185
Listening up on licensing 185
Licensing for videos 186
Using the Full Capacity of the Memory in Your Phone 186
Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities 188
Grooving with the YouTube Music app 188
Playing downloaded music 193
Jamming to Internet Radio 197
Looking at your video options 199
Part 5 Getting Down to Business 203
Chapter 13 Using the Calendar 205
Syncing Calendars 205
Setting Calendar Display Preferences 207
Setting Other Display Options 210
Creating an Event on the Right Calendar 211
Creating, editing, and deleting an event 211
Keeping events separate and private 214
Chapter 14 Mapping Out Where You Want to Be 217
GPS 101: First Things First 218
Practically Speaking: Using Maps 219
Changing map scale 220
Finding nearby services 223
Getting and Using Directions 226
Chapter 15 Paying with Samsung Pay 229
How Mobile Payment Works 230
Getting Started with Samsung Pay 232
Setting Up Samsung Pay 234
Using Samsung Pay 238
Managing Samsung Pay 240
Adding Loyalty Cards 241
Part 6 The Part of Tens 245
Chapter 16 Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours 247
Using a Bluetooth Speaker 248
Cruising in the Car 249
Considering Wireless Charging Mats 251
Making a Statement with Wraps 252
You Look Wonderful: Custom Screen Images 253
Empowering Power Savings 255
Controlling Your Home Electronics 257
Wearing Wearables 257
Using Your Phone as a PC 259
Creating Your Own AR Emoji in the AR Zone 260
Chapter 17 Ten (or So) Ways to Make Your Phone Secure 263
Using a Good Case 264
Putting It on Lockdown 266
Preparing for your Screen Lock option 269
Selecting among the Screen Lock options 269
Entering your face 271
Entering your fingerprints 272
Creating a Secure Folder 274
Using Knox to Make Your Phone as Secure as Fort Knox 277
Being Careful with Bluetooth 278
Protecting against Malware 280
Downloading Apps Only from Reputable Sources 281
Rescuing Your Phone When It Gets Lost 281
Wiping Your Device Clean 283
Chapter 18 Ten Features to Look for Down the Road 285
Your Medical Information Hub 285
Better 911 Services 286
Home Internet of Things Services to Differentiate Real Estate 287
New Delivery Concepts 287
Smarter Customer Care for Your Phone 288
Smartphone as Entertainment Hub 289
Driving in Your Car 290
Serving You Better 290
Placing You Indoors 291
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint 292
Index 293