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Bill Hughes
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July 3, 2018

Samsung Galaxy S9 For Dummies

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Overview

The bestselling guide to getting the most out of your Android Samsung Galaxy S9

Samsung Galaxy S9 For Dummies documents all the features and capabilities of this popular smartphone, approaching them from the point of view of a user who is perhaps a bit baffled by the documentation and online support that comes with the phone. All aspects of the device are covered, from setup and configuration, to extensive use of the new features and capabilities.

Whether you’re looking for approachable guidance on the basics like texting, e-mailing, and accessing the internet, or more advanced topics like downloading apps, synching with a PC, and expanding the phone’s potential with new software releases, this trusted resource covers it all.

  • Take pictures, watch movies, and record videos
  • Use maps and navigation
  • Stay connected on social networking sites
  • Make sense of software updates 

You’ll want to keep this book close by, referring to it often as you explore the features and functions of your new Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone.

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About The Author

Bill Hughes is a veteran marketing strategy executive who has worked for Xerox, Microsoft, IBM, General Electric, Motorola, and US West Cellular. He has led initiatives to develop new products and solutions and has written articles for several wireless industry trade magazines, as well as for USA Today and Forbes.

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Your Samsung Galaxy S9 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 applications while you’re talking on the S9. Navigating your Samsung Galaxy S9 doesn’t have to be difficult.
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 is sleek and beautiful, and you need to protect it with an Otterbox or Samsung case. The Galaxy S9 Edge has a really cool design that draws attention from people walking by. Plus, the front is made of Gorilla Glass from Corning. This stuff is super-durable and scratch-resistant.Why should you cover this all up?
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Accessing information while on a call is easy enough on your Samsung Galaxy S9. When the call is in full screen mode, you can tap a number of icons. When you need to contact information stored in your contact database, you simply swipe the screen to the left and tap on the Contacts icon. Your Contacts app open, and all the information you have is right there.
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Your Samsung Galaxy S9 phone is out there trying to make itself the ultimate contact database with as little effort on your part as possible. The interesting thing is that the salesperson in the cellular store probably didn’t explain this to you in detail. It’s a subtle-but-important capability that’s hard to communicate on the sales floor.
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On your Samsung Galaxy S9, you may find the fonts in your texting conversation to be too small. A font that’s too small makes texts hard to read.On the other hand, you may find the fonts in your texting conversation on your Samsung Galaxy S9 to be too big. Big fonts cause you to miss earlier comments. You can dive into the Settings and dig around to manage the font sizes.
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This Screen Lock option for protecting your Samsung Galaxy S9 is an exceptionally secure option: It scrambles every file on your microSD card into gibberish, which it rapidly descrambles when you need the information. This sounds great; in practice, however, there are some important considerations to think about.
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For applications in general, and games in particular, the Samsung Galaxy S9 Play Store is a free market. When you come in to the Play Store, your best path to finding a good purchase is to read the reviews of those who have gone before you. Although more than a million users have commented on Angry Birds, most games do not have that kind of following.
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The most basic effort you can take to protect your Galaxy S9 phone is to put some kind of a screen lock on your phone. If you’re connected to a corporate network, the company may have a policy that specifies what you must do to access your corporate network. Otherwise, you have eight choices, listed here in increasing degrees of security: Unlock with a simple swipe across the screen.
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The Samsung Galaxy S9, like all phones in the United States and Canada, can make emergency calls to 911. Just tap the Phone icon on the Home screen, tap 911, and then tap Send. You’ll be routed to the 911 call center nearest to your location. This works wherever you’re at within the United States. So, say you live in Chicago but have a car accident in Charlotte; just tap 911 to be connected to the 911 call center in Charlotte, not Chicago.
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After you take some great pictures with your Samsung Galaxy S9, you need to figure out what to do with them. Although you can send an image immediately to another site or via email, it will likely be the exception.In most cases, it’s easier to keep on doing what you were doing and go back to the Gallery application when you have some time to take a look at the images and then decide what to do with them.
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You probably need a bit of guidance with your new Samsung Galaxy S9, even if you’ve used a smartphone in the past. Here’s your guide to your phone’s buttons, its touchscreen, and the keyboard: The Power button: The Power button is on the top-right side of the phone. Press it for a few seconds, and the screen lights up.
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What if you want to send something in addition to or instead of text from the Samsung Galaxy S9? Say you want to send a picture, some music, or a Word document along with your text. Easy as pie, as long as the phone on the receiving end can recognize the attachment. Here is the recipe: 1. From the Home screen, tap the Messages icon.
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The panorama that exists for the Google Play home page on your Samsung Galaxy S9 is very extensive. You can swipe to the right a long way and you can swipe down dozens of levels. Do not be surprised if you open up the Play Store home page one day and find that it has a completely different layout. Google tries different formats from time to time to solve one problem or another and keep things fresh.
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On your Samsung Galaxy S9 phone, you have a few choices on how to get to the Internet. The choices are Use the regular web page: This option involves accessing a web page via its regular address (URL) and having the page come up on your screen. The resulting text may be small. Use the mobile web page: Many websites offer a mobile version of their regular web page.
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If you want to take quick selfies, you can’t find a faster phone on the market than your Samsung Galaxy S9. (A selfie is simply a picture you take of yourself using your phone’s front-facing camera.) Follow these steps to take a selfie with your Samsung Galaxy S9: 1. Press the camera icon on the lock screen or home page.
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One of the nice features of your Samsung Galaxy S9 is that the phone keeps a record of the calls that you’ve made and received. Sure, you might have caller ID on your landline at home or work, but most landline phones don’t keep track of whom you called. Cellphones, on the other hand, keep track of all the numbers you called.
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As a rule, free navigation applications for your Samsung Galaxy S9, like Google Maps Navigation, have real-time updates that avoid taking you on congested routes. This is very handy, particularly in urban areas. However, if that isn’t enough for you, you can also upgrade to have 3D images that provide better context for landmarks.
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Your Samsung Galaxy S9 wants you to be able to communicate with all the people you would ever want to in any way you know how to talk to them. This is a tall order, and your Galaxy S9 makes it as easy as possible. In fact, the technology implemented in the Contacts app might become one of your favorite capabilities of the phone.
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Your Samsung Galaxy S9 Camera application can also function as a digital camcorder. All you need to do to use your phone as a video recorder is to put your camera into Camcorder mode. Starting the camcorder From the camera viewfinder, you tap the icon that looks like the record button of a movie camera in the upper-right corner, and you switch from photographer to videographer.
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Your Samsung Galaxy S9 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 applications while you’re talking on the S9. Navigating your Samsung Galaxy S9 doesn’t have to be difficult.
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You can’t talk smartphone mapping on your Samsung Galaxy S9 without acknowledging the GPS in the background, which creates a few inherent challenges of which you need to be aware. First off (and obviously), there is a GPS receiver in your phone. That means the following: Gimme a sec. Like all GPS receivers, your location-detection system takes a little time to determine your location when you first turn on your phone.
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Samsung has reduced the number of hardware buttons on the Galaxy S9. There are only three: the Power button, the Volume button, and the Bixby button. Before you get too far into using your phone, orient yourself to be sure that you’re looking at the correct side of the phone. The left or right of the phone assumes a vertical orientation (meaning you’re not holding the phone sideways) and that you’re looking at the phone’s screen.
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Bixby is Samsung’s intelligent agent (IA). You can see the Bixby icon here. When you have the camera app on your Samsung Galaxy S9 open, you can tap the icon to launch Bixby Vision.Bixby Vision can then tell you information about what the camera is pointed at: If it’s an object, Bixby Vision can tell you what the object is and how much you can buy it for online.
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