How to Organize Music on an Android Phone
A playlist is a collection of tunes you create. You build the list by combining songs from an album or artist or from whatever music you have on your Android phone. You can then listen to the playlist [more…]
How to Set Up a Google Account for an Android Phone
To get the most from your Android phone, you need a free Google account. You need a Google account because the Android operating system, which your phone uses, was developed by Google — and because your [more…]
How to Cut, Copy, and Paste Text on an Android Phone
You probably won’t do a lot of text editing on your Android phone. Well, no major editing, such as for a term paper or ransom note. From time to time, however, you may find yourself wanting to fix a word [more…]
Google Voice on Android Phones
One good alternative for your standard voice mail is something called Google Voice. It’s more than just a voice mail system: You can use Google Voice to make phone calls in the United States, place cheap [more…]
How to Create a New Android Phone Contact Using Its Location
Your Android phone’s address book is stored in an app traditionally named Contacts. Your cell phone may use a different app, such as the People app found on HTC phones, but the idea is the same: It’s the [more…]
How to Attach Media to a Text Message on an Android Phone
Even though the term texting sticks around, this cell phone feature has for some time had the ability to send media along with text. You can attach a picture, a video, an audio attachment, or a number [more…]
Set Up Web-Based E-mail on an Android Phone
The Android Email app, which might be called Mail, is used to connect to non-Gmail electronic mail, such as the standard mail service provided by your Internet service provider [more…]
Set Up ISP E-mail on an Android Phone
To add an e-mail account provided by your Internet service provider (ISP) or office to your Android phone, you have to work the manual setup. The steps are involved, but as long as you have the details [more…]
How to Use Web Bookmarks on an Android Phone
Bookmarks are those electronic breadcrumbs you can drop as you wander the web. Need to revisit a website from your Android phone? Just look up its bookmark. This advice assumes, of course, that you bother [more…]
How to Download Information to an Android Phone
For the sake of your Android phone, a download is a transfer of information from another location to your phone. When you send something from the phone, you [more…]
How to Add Social Network Accounts to an Android Phone
The Internet is bursting with social networking opportunities. So is your Android phone. But before you can get anything started, you need to harbor a few accounts on some of the popular social networking [more…]
How to Post to Facebook from an Android Phone
The Facebook for Android app is the best way to enjoy the Facebook experience on your Android phone. You can use the main Facebook app screen to do most of the Facebook things you can do on the web, including [more…]
Basics of Google Talk for Android Phones
Get started with Google Talk by starting the Talk app on your Droid phone. Like all apps, it can be found on the App menu of your Android phone, though you may be lucky and find the Talk app shortcut right [more…]
Basics of Skype for Android Phones
The Skype app is used the world over as a free way to make Internet phone calls and to video-chat. Plus, if you’re willing to pony up some money, you can make inexpensive calls to phones around the world [more…]
How to Build Your Skype Contact List on an Android Phone
Text, voice, and video chat on Skype over the Internet are free. If you can use a Wi-Fi connection, you can chat on your Android phone without incurring a loss of your cellular plan’s data quota. Before [more…]
How to Chat with Skype on an Android Phone
You can text-chat with any Skype user on your Android phone; it works similarly to texting, though with no maximum-character limitations. The only restriction is that you can chat only with other Skype [more…]
Map App Functions on an Android Phone
Start the Maps app on your Android phone by choosing Maps from the App menu, or you may find a shortcut to the Maps app lurking on the Home screen. If you’re starting the app for the first time or if it [more…]
How to Add Layers to a Map on an Android Phone
You add details from the Maps app on your Android phone by applying layers: A layer can enhance the map’s visual appearance, provide more information, or add other fun features to the basic street map, [more…]
How to Locate Yourself and Others with an Android Phone
The Maps app on an Android phone shows your location as a blue dot or compass arrow on the screen. But where is that? To find your current street address, or any street address, long-press a location on [more…]
How to Locate Addresses on an Android Phone
The Maps app on an Android phone can help you find places in the real world, just as the Browser app helps you find places on the Internet. Both operations work basically the same way: [more…]
How to Get Directions on an Android Phone
Thanks to its various direction and navigation features, the Maps app on an Android phone is waiting to be your copilot. It’s just like having a backseat driver, but one who knows where they’re going and [more…]
Basics of the Camera App on an Android Phone
To use your Android phone as a camera, you must do two things. First, hold the phone away from your face. That’s because the phone has no viewfinder. Nope — the image preview shows up on the touchscreen [more…]
How to Take Pictures with an Android Phone
To take a picture with your Android phone, point the camera at the subject and touch the Shutter button, either the touchscreen shutter button or the phone’s physical shutter button, if it has one. Your [more…]
How to Record Video with an Android Phone
When the action is hot — when you need to capture more than a moment (and maybe the sounds) — switch an Android phone’s camera into Video mode. Your phone features the Camcorder app, which is used to record [more…]
How to Manage the Photo Gallery on an Android Phone
You can start the Gallery app on your Android phone by locating its icon, either on the Home screen or the App menu. How the Gallery looks varies from phone to phone, but generally the images are organized [more…]
