Searching Your Samsung Galaxy S II
LOOKING TO FIND THE proverbial needle in a haystack on your Galaxy S II? It can seem like an insurmountable problem. After all, the Galaxy S II’s haystack is rather large, including contacts, maps, social networking sites like Facebook, and the entire Web.
It could take you quite a long time to find a needle in all that hay if you didn’t have the Galaxy S II’s universal search, which searches all of the above in one fell swoop. Here’s what universal search scans to find matches for you:
Note
This list will vary according to the apps installed on your Galaxy S II.
Contacts. Search through first and last names, and also company names. It lists names as well as phone numbers in the results.
Browser. Looks through your bookmarks and web history.
Music. Searches artist names, album names, and track names.
Kindle. If you have the Android Kindle book-reading app from Amazon on your Galaxy S II, universal search looks through the titles and authors of the books you’ve downloaded.
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When you first unpacked and used your Galaxy S II, it may not have had the Kindle app on it, and you may never have downloaded it. Yet the app may be on your Galaxy S II all the same. If so, that’s because it was installed during one of the software updates performed on your phone wirelessly. (It’s called an over the air update, or OTA.)
Google search. Lists popular Google searches that include your search term. It also includes search terms you’ve already used on Google, even those ...
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