Chapter 5

Phone 101

In This Chapter

arrow Calling someone

arrow Connecting with a contact

arrow Calling favorite people

arrow Getting a call

arrow Dismissing a call with a text message

arrow Finding missed calls

arrow Perusing the call log

Credit the Bell Telephone Company for its brilliant design: I’ve never seen a manual (or a book) on how to use the old landline telephone. When it rang, you picked up the handset and started talking. To make a call, you picked up the handset and dialed or punched in a number. It had neither an Enter key nor a Phone button. You heard either a dial tone or a busy signal, or you started talking. Life was simple.

Here in the 21st century, with a device as diverse as the Galaxy Note, making phone ...

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