Samsung Galaxy Tabs For Dummies

Welcome to the Galaxy

Popular for both work and play, Android tablets fill a useful niche between smartphone and computer. Samsung's Galaxy Tab kicks it up a notch, offering both hardware and software technology beyond its competitors. Samsung enhances the basics--web, email, eReader, navigation, music, video, camera--and offers unique tools such as the Bixby assistant and the high-tech S-Pen. Coupled with an envious design, Galaxy Tab is a formidable contender to other devices, offering features you won't find anywhere else.

Samsung Galaxy Tab For Dummies helps you take full advantage of everything this sweet device has to offer. Whether you're looking to keep in touch with friends and family on social media, want a portable way to stay connected to your work, or desire to read the latest potboiler or catch-up with the latest streaming TV drama, the Galaxy Tab makes it possible--and this book shows you how.

• Set up and start using your new tablet

• Connect with email, video chat, and explore social media

• Play games, enjoy music, watch movies and streaming TV

• Browse digital magazines and enjoy ebooks

A whole new galaxy awaits! Get ready to soak it all in!

Autorentext

Dan Gookin combined his love of writing with his gizmo fascination nearly 30 years ago to produce more than 160 informative, entertaining books demystifying technology. Perhaps his most famous is DOS For Dummies, published in 1991, which became the world's fastest-selling computer book and launched the entire For Dummies franchise.

Klappentext

• Set up and start using your new tablet
• Use email and send text messages to stay in touch

• Play games, watch movies, and read books Enter the Galaxy and fall in love The Galaxy Tab is an amazing gizmo. Part smartphone, part computer, and all remarkable, your Samsung Galaxy Tab is loaded with cool new features like the DeX desktop and a high-tech S-pen. Add navigation, music, video, and camera capabilities and you have just about everything your heart desires. And this book is your guide to the Galaxy! Learn to network your tablet, add apps and widgets, navigate with Maps, chat with Skype, and take your communication, entertainment, work, and play to a stellar level. Inside...

• Galaxy set-up and navigation
• Creating and editing text
• Managing contacts and email
• Placing a phone call with Hangouts™
• Your social (media) life
• Finding your way
• Shooting photos and videos
• Keeping your Tab secure

Zusammenfassung
Welcome to the Galaxy

Popular for both work and play, Android tablets fill a useful niche between smartphone and computer. Samsung's Galaxy Tab kicks it up a notch, offering both hardware and software technology beyond its competitors. Samsung enhances the basicsweb, email, eReader, navigation, music, video, cameraand offers unique tools such as the Bixby assistant and the high-tech S-Pen. Coupled with an envious design, Galaxy Tab is a formidable contender to other devices, offering features you won't find anywhere else.

Samsung Galaxy Tab For Dummies helps you take full advantage of everything this sweet device has to offer. Whether you're looking to keep in touch with friends and family on social media, want a portable way to stay connected to your work, or desire to read the latest potboiler or catch-up with the latest streaming TV drama, the Galaxy Tab makes it possibleand this book shows you how.

• Set up and start using your new tablet
• Connect with email, video chat, and explore social media
• Play games, enjoy music, watch movies and streaming TV
• Browse digital magazines and enjoy ebooks
  A whole new galaxy awaits! Get ready to soak it all in!

Inhalt

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 3

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: A Galaxy at Your Fingertips 5

Chapter 1: Tab Orientation 7

Set Up Your Galaxy Tab 7

Opening the box 8

Charging the battery 9

Know Your Way around the Galaxy 10

Finding things on the tablet 10

Inserting and removing a microSD card 12

Getting optional accessories 14

Where to Keep Your Tab 15

Making a home for the tablet 15

Taking the tablet with you 15

Chapter 2: The On-and-Off Chapter 17

Hello, Tablet 17

Turning on your Galaxy Tab (for the first time) 18

Turning on your tablet 19

Unlocking the tablet 19

Working the Lock screen 21

More Accounts for Your Tab 22

Farewell, Tablet 24

Locking the tablet 24

Turning off your Galaxy Tab 24

Restarting the tablet 25

Chapter 3: Galactic Procedures 27

Basic Operations 27

Touching the touchscreen 27

Changing the orientation 28

Using the navigation icons 30

Setting the volume 30

Behold the Home Screens 31

Touring the Home screen 32

Reviewing notifications 33

Making Quick Settings 34

All About Those Apps 35

Starting an app 35

Quitting an app 35

Working with widgets 36

Visiting the Apps screen 36

Switching between running apps 37

Recognizing common icons 38

Chapter 4: Text to Type and Edit 41

This Is a Keyboard? 41

The Old Hunt-and-Peck 43

Typing one character at a time 44

Accessing special characters 44

Typing quickly by using predictive text 45

Adding keyboard swipe 46

Google Voice Typing 47

Dictating text 47

Uttering s words 48

Text Editing 49

Moving the cursor 49

Selecting text 49

Cutting, copying, and pasting 50

Undoing and redoing mistakes 51

Chapter 5: Tab Toys and Peripherals 53

The Samsung Book Cover Keyboard and DeX 53

Connecting to the book cover keyboard 54

Activating DeX manually 55

Exploring DeX 55

Exiting from DeX 57

Disabling DeX 58

S Pen Scribbling 58

Understanding the S Pen 58

Using Air Command 59

Part 2: Tab Communications 61

Chapter 6: All Your Friends in the Galaxy 63

Meet the Tab's Address Book 63

Using the Contacts app 64

Sorting your contacts 65

Searching contacts 66

Add More Friends 66

Creating a contact from scratch 66

Creating a contact from an email message 67

Grabbing contacts from your social networking sites 68

Importing contacts from a computer 68

Manage Your Friends 69

Editing contact information 69

Taking a picture of a contact 70

Making a favorite 71

Joining identical contacts 71

Separating contacts 72

Removing a contact 72

Chapter 7: Mail of the Electronic Kind 73

Galactic Email 73

Adding more email accounts 74

Creating a signature 75

Removing an email account 76

You've Got Email 76

Checking the inbox 77

Reading email 78

Write That Message 79

Message Attachments 80 Dealing with ...