December 2011
Beginner to intermediate
436 pages
14h 59m
English
Content preview from Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual
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Chapter 1. The Guided Tour
THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S II—a svelte, elegant phone—is an enticing gadget, and the first time you hold it in your hands, you’ll immediately want to put it through its paces: calling friends, browsing the Web, checking your email, and more.
That’s as it should be: The Samsung Galaxy S II is a remarkably powerful device. As you’ll see in the rest of this book, it can do some remarkable things that make you feel as if the phone has superpowers.
To help you unlock all those powers, though, it’s a good idea to get a solid understanding of how the Galaxy S II works, and a look at all its different parts. You’ll want to know where all of its buttons, keys, and ports are located, for example—not to mention how to get to your Home screen and panes.
Power/Lock Key
THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY up on the right side of the Galaxy S II, you find a small, rectangular black button. It may be only a single button, but it’s a hardworking one, and it performs several functions:
Standby/Wake. When your Galaxy S II is turned on, pressing and releasing the button puts the phone into Standby mode, a sleep-like state in which the display is turned off and the device uses only a minimum amount of power, in order to save battery life. When the Galaxy S II is in dreamland, it also doesn’t register any taps, so that you can’t accidentally send an email or delete every picture on your phone. When ...
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