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Published:
September 1, 2020

Samsung Galaxy S20 For Dummies

Overview

Get the most out of the powerful new Samsung Galaxy S20

With its superfast refresh rate for seamless browsing and spectacularly enhanced camera—among many other goodies—there’s a lot to enjoy about your sleek new Samsung S20. Whether you’re a Samsung newbie or an upgrading customer, Samsung Galaxy S20 for Dummies is the perfect guide to the latest generation.

From the basics, like setup and security, to the fun, like the supercool Single Take mode, this book has you covered from the moment you take your new smartphone out of its shiny new box. Want to watch movies? Navigate your way around

with GPS? Say hello to family and friends on social media? All the easy-to-follow tips and tricks that make it fast and fun are pages away!

  • Configure and personalize your new phone
  • Get going with the best features, apps, and games
  • Shoot eye-popping photo and video with 30x zoom and nighttime mode
  • Sync with your other devices

Whatever you want to use it for gaming with friends, in-app conferencing or emailing for work, shooting home movies, sending witty Tweets—or even making phone calls—this friendly, no-nonsense how-to is the best guide to your galaxy. Enjoy!

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About The Author

Bill Hughes is an experienced marketing strategy executive with more than two decades of experience in sales, strategic marketing, and business development roles at leading corporations. He graduated with honors with an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management. He is the author of all previous editions of Samsung Galaxy S For Dummies.

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Your Samsung Galaxy S20 smartphone allows you to do many of the same things as previous versions of the Galaxy. You can change the font size for texting conversations and take selfies. You can also access Galaxy applications while you’re talking on the S20. Navigating your Samsung Galaxy S20 doesn’t have to be difficult.

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With the power of your Samsung Galaxy S20 and the flexibility offered in Android applications development, it can be difficult to imagine that even more capabilities could be in the works. In spite of this, the following are ten features that would improve the usability and value of your Galaxy S20 phone. Always-on personal “dash-cam” Here is a mind-blowing concept: Your smartphone can continuously record your location, the sound, and video, up to and including a 360° perspective at HD level quality.
Your phone is set up to work with up to 10 email accounts. If you have more than ten accounts, I’m thinking that you might have too much going on in your life. No phone, not even the Galaxy S20, can help you there!After you tell your Galaxy S20 all your email accounts, the Email screen will let you see the inbox of each account or combine all your email in a single inbox.
When you turn on your Samsung Galaxy S20 the first time, it will ask you a series of 10 questions and preferences to configure it. The good folks at Samsung are well-intentioned, but not every customer who owns a Samsung Galaxy S20 knows, from day one, whether he or she wants a Samsung account, what’s a good name for the phone, or what the purpose of a cloud service, such as Dropbox, is and how it would be used.
At its essence, any cellphone — no matter how fancy or smart — exists to make phone calls. The good news is that making and receiving phone calls on your Samsung Galaxy S20 is easy. How to make calls on the Galaxy S20 After your phone is on and you’re connected to your cellular carrier, you can make a phone call.
Galaxy S20 phone devices differ from many other mobile phones in design: They have significantly fewer hardware buttons (physical buttons on the phone). They rely much more heavily on software buttons that appear onscreen. The phone’s hardware buttons Samsung has reduced the number of hardware buttons on the Galaxy S20.
The fact of the matter is that your Samsung Galaxy S20, with its large Super AMOLED screen and beefy graphics processing unit, makes Android-based games more fun. And because you already have one, maybe you should take a break and concentrate on having fun! Games are the most popular kind of download for smartphones of all kinds.
These days, many people have multiple personal email address for many reasons. Your phone’s Email app can manage up to 10 email accounts. With a Galaxy S20 phone, you’ll want to create Google account if you don’t already have one. If you don’t have a Google account, you’ll miss out on so many exciting capabilities that it’s almost worth settling for a lesser phone.
The first step here is to make sure that you have Samsung Pay on your Galaxy S20. As cool as this app is, there are many options to this technology, and your carrier may have preferred to not have it preloaded. No problem. Download the application from the Play Store. The Samsung Pay logo is seen here. The Samsung Pay and the Android Pay logos.
With a Bluetooth headset device, you can talk on your phone without having to hold the phone to your ear — and without any cords running from the phone to your earpiece. You’ve probably come across plenty of people talking on Bluetooth headsets. You might even have wondered whether they were a little crazy talking to themselves.
Your Samsung Galaxy S20 smartphone allows you to do many of the same things as previous versions of the Galaxy. You can change the font size for texting conversations and take selfies. You can also access Galaxy applications while you’re talking on the S20. Navigating your Samsung Galaxy S20 doesn’t have to be difficult.
The Home screen is the first screen you see on the Samsung Galaxy S20 when the phone is done with setting up. Additional screens off to the right and left make up the extended Home screen. They can be seen as a panorama in the following figure. The Galaxy S20 phone panorama display of the extended Home screen.
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