Samsung Galaxy S is great phone with lot of built in features, so it’s must that we are familiarized with the basics of the phone. Samsung Galaxy S is Android powered phone. So let’s learn some basics of this phone which will make your life easy with the phone.
1. Connecting your Galaxy S to pc: Connecting the device as mass storage, for this you can connect the phone to your pc, and select mass storage. To transfer files to memory or to transfer from memory card in the idle mode you need to open the application list — Settings → about phone → USB settings → Mass storage. Now you can press the home button to go back to idle mode. You connect the device to pc by the multi connector and then transfer the required file.
2. Synchronizing with Windows Media player: (idle mode) Settings — About phone – USB settings – Media player. Connect to the pc and open the media player to synchronies.
3. Galaxy S as a wireless modem: You can use your device as modem; navigate to USB settings — PC Internet. Make to idle by clicking Home key — Now connect to your pc .An installer application comes up. You need to install it and then you can provide the ISP details and use your device as modem.
4. Activate Wi-Fi when required: Settings – Wireless and Network – Wi-Fi settings – Wi-Fi .Recommended that you don’t run Wi-Fi in background since it will consume your battery. Only activate when required.
5. Search by Voice: Do you know you can search key words in your web browser by voice, for this in the idle mode open the Application list – Browser – now select the address field – select the mike and say your keyword – the application will select related keyboard.
6. Think free office: Open source Office for the galaxy phones. You can select this form Application list – Think free office. Think free office supports .txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pdf
7. Mini diary: From the application list you can select the Mini diary. You can create a new diary entry. Click Diary – New entry – select appropriate date and settings.
8. Daily Briefing –Get connected to latest news and updates: Get update about live weather information, finance information, latest news, and many more. You can select daily briefing from application list —daily briefing.
9. Mobile Ap (Set Galaxy as Wireless Access point): To setup Settings – Wireless and Network – Mobile Ap settings .Now select Mobile AP and activate it by clicking OK. Now you can locate this access point from another Wi-Fi enabled device.
10. Layar application (to check updates and information in real time) : Layar application enable to browse locations, maps real time. You can access the local information. You can use your camera to check these and share to others.
