Samsung Galaxy S6 for Dummies

by Bill Hughes

Overview

Explore the capabilities of your Samsung Galaxy S 6 with this definitive guide!

Learning to use a new phone can be both difficult and frustrating. With confusing documentation and baffling support, the references provided by phone manufacturers can be intimidating. Enter Samsung Galaxy S 6 For Dummies! This extensive yet practical guide walks you through the most useful features of your new Samsung Galaxy S 6—and it shows you all the best tricks to getting the most out of your device. With an accessible and fun, yet informative writing style, this is a text that you'll refer to again and again as you explore the capabilities of your new smartphone!

Samsung is the largest phone manufacturer in the world, so it's no wonder that its flagship smartphone products—the Galaxy S line—have made quite a splash. Built around the Android operating system, the Galaxy S 6 is so much more than a phone, it is a mobile device with endless capabilities, so why not explore and use that functionality?

• Set up and configure your new smartphone to fit your needs and preferences
• Review the phone's features and capabilities
• Access key functionality, such as texting, emailing, accessing the internet, using navigation, capturing photos and videos, social networking, watching movies, downloading apps, securing and synching your phone with your PC
• Expand the capabilities of your Samsung Galaxy S 6 by downloading new software upgrades

Samsung Galaxy S 6 For Dummies clearly explains the features and capabilities of your new phone—and will have you up and running on your smartphone in no time!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119120605
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/15/2015
Series:	For Dummies Books
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Bill Hughes is an experienced marketing strategy executive with over two decades of experience in sales, strategic marketing, and business development. Bill has worked with Microsoft and has also led initiatives to develop new products and solutions with several high-level technology organizations.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

About This Book 2

What You're Not to Read 3

Foolish Assumptions 3

How This Book Is Organized 3

Part I Getting Started with the Samsung Galaxy S6 4

Part II Communications 4

Part III Live on the Internet: Going Mobile 4

Part IV Entertainment Applications 4

Part V Productivity Applications 4

Part VI The Part of Tens 4

Icons Used in This Book 5

Beyond the Book 5

Where to Go from Here 5

Part I Getting Started with the Samsung Galaxy S6 7

Chapter 1 Exploring What You Can Do with Your Phone 9

Discovering the Basics of Your Phone 9

Taking Your Phone to the Next Level: The Smart phone Features 10

Internet access 11

Photos 11

Wireless e-mail 12

Multimedia 12

Business applications 13

Customizing Your Phone with Games and Applications 13

Downloading games 13

Downloading applications 13

What's cool about the Android platform 14

You and Your Shadow: How Your Cellular Carrier Bills You 14

Voice, usage 15

Text usage 15

Data usage 16

Another consideration: family plans 17

Yet one more consideration: international usage 17

One final consideration: web subscription fees 17

Surviving Unboxing Day 18

Chapter 2 Beginning at the Beginning 23

First Things First: Turning On Your Phone 23

Charging Your Phone and Managing Battery Life 26

Navigating the Galaxy S6 28

The phone's hardware buttons 28

The touchscreen 33

The extended Home screen 37

The notification area and screen 41

The Device Function keys 43

The keyboard 45

The orientation of the phone 47

Going to Sleep Mode/Turning Off the Phone 48

Part II Communications 49

Chapter 3 Calling People 51

Making Calls 51

Answering Calls 55

Keeping Track of Your Calls: The Call List 57

Making an Emergency Call: The 411 on 911 60

Syncing a Bluetooth Headset 61

Options Other than Headsets 64

Chapter 4 Discovering the Joy of Text 65

Sending the First Text Message 66

Carrying on a Conversation via Texting 70

Sending an Attachment with a Text 72

Receiving Text Messages 73

Managing Your Text History 73

Chapter 5 Sending and Receiving E-mail 75

Setting Up Your E-mail 76

Getting ready 76

Setting up your existing Gmail account 76

Setting up a new Gmail account 78

Working with non-Gmail e-mail accounts 81

Setting up a corporate e-mail account 85

Reading E-mail on Your Phone 89

Writing and Sending E-mail 90

Replying To and Forwarding E-mail 92

Chapter 6 Managing Your Contacts 95

Using the Galaxy S6 Contact Database 96

Learning the Contact Database on your phone 96

Deciding where to store your contacts 98

Linking Contacts on your phone 101

Creating Contacts Within Your Database 105

Adding contacts as you dial 106

Adding contacts manually 107

How Contacts Make Life Easy 109

Playing Favorites 110

Part III Live on the Internet: Going Mobile 111

Chapter 7 You've Got the Whole (Web) World in Your Hands 113

Starting the Browser 114

Accessing Mobile (or Not) Websites 115

Getting Around in the Browser 118

Using Bookmarks 121

Adding bookmarks 121

Bookmark housekeeping 122

Deciding Between Mobile Browsing and Mobile Apps 124

Chapter 8 Playing in Google's Play Store 125

Exploring the Play Store: The Mall for Your Phone 126

Getting to the Store 126

Seeing What's Available: Shopping for Android Apps 128

Installing and Managing an Android App 130

Downloading the Facebook app 131

Creating a Facebook account 136

Accessing Facebook Settings 139

Rating and Uninstalling Your Apps 143

Part IV Entertaining Applications 147

Chapter 9 Sharing Pictures 149

Say Cheese! Taking a Picture with Your Phone 151

Getting a Little Fancier with Your Camera 157

The Mode setting 158

Settings options on the Viewfinder 160

Effects options 162

The Digital Camcorder in Your Pocket 162

Starting the camcorder 163

Taking and sharing videos with your camcorder 164

Managing Your Photo Images 164

Using Images on Your Phone 165

Deleting Images on Your Phone 166

Chapter 10 Playing Games 167

The Play Store Games Category 167

The Games Home tab 168

The Games Categories tab 169

Leaving Feedback on Games 172

Chapter 11 Mapping Out Where You Want to Be 177

GPS 101: First Things First 178

Practically Speaking; Using Maps 179

Changing map scale 180

Finding nearby services 182

Getting and Using Directions 185

Upgrading Your Navigation 187

Chapter 12 Playing Music and Videos 189

Being Mindful of Carrier Quirks 189

Getting Ready to be Entertained 190

Choosing your headset 190

Choosing your Bluetooth speaker 193

Connecting to your stereo 193

Licensing your multimedia files 194

Enjoying Basic Multimedia Capabilities 195

Grooving with the Music Player app 196

Playing downloaded music 202

Jamming to Internet radio 204

Looking at your video options 206

Part V Productivity Applications 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 221

Chapter 14 On the Road Again: Taking Your Work with You on Your Phone 223

Preparing for Using Office Apps 224

Focusing on the Big Four 224

Accessing the Office files 225

Using Cloud storage 225

Using a VPN 226

Reading and Editing Files with Your Phone 226

Creating a document 227

Sending an Office file as an attachment 231

Managing Office documents with a server 233

Chapter 15 Talking with S-Voice 235

Look Ma! No Hands! 235

Dictating a Text 236

Preparing to Work with S-Voice 237

Searching the Web by Voice 239

Changing Settings on S-Voice 240

Part VI The Part of Tens 243

Chapter 16 Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Totally Yours 245

Using a Bluetooth Speaker 245

Cruising in the Car 247

Considering Wireless Charging Mats 249

Your Phone Is Watching You 250

Making a Statement with Wraps 250

You Look Mahvelous: Custom Screen Images 251

Empowering Power Savings 253

Setting Do Not Disturb Options 253

Wearing Wearables 255

Daydreaming While You Work 255

Chapter 17 Ten Ways to Make Your Phone Secure 257

Use a Good Case and Screen Cover 258

Put It on Lock Down 260

Preparing for your Screen Lock option 261

Selecting among the Screen Lock options 262

Entering your fingerprint 263

Encrypt Your Device 264

As Secure as Ft. Knox with Knox 266

Put Your Contact Number on the Screensaver 267

Be Careful with Bluetooth 268

Protect Against Malware 270

Don't Download Apps from Just Anywhere 270

Rescue Your Phone When It Gets Lost 271

Wipe Your Device Clean 272

Chapter 18 Ten Features to Look for Down the Road 275

Smarter Customer Care for Your Phone 275

Control of Your Home Electronics 276

Entertainment Selector 277

Serving You Better 278

Placing You Indoors 278

Augmenting Your Reality 279

More and Better Health Sensors 280

Better 911 Services 280

More Body English/Less Tapping 281

Information Finder 281

Index 283