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The first EASY guide to Google phones for consumers, not experts! A complete real-world guide for users of the T-Mobile G1 and any other Google Android phone. Everything consumers need to know about Android calling features, contacts, calendars, photography, media, Web access, email, and troubleshooting. Friendly, casual, practical, and easy to understand. First to market - months before any other Google Phone guide for consumers. Google on the Go is the perfect hands-on guide to any Google Android smartphone - both the hot new T-Mobile G1 and all the competitive Google Android phones that will soon follow it. Written for typical consumers -- not hackers or programmers -- this casual, friendly book shows exactly how to use each of the Google Phone's most important and powerful features. The authors begin with a tour of the Google Android phone, showing how to use each of its essential calling and voicemail features. Next, they turn to Google Android's built-in applications, showing how to work with contacts; use the local calendar to coordinate your activities with others; take pictures; use your phone as a personal media player; and more. Google on the Go includes easy-to-understand coverage of Google Android's essential Internet features, from web browsing and Gmail email to the Google Application Suite. Users will even learn how to add additional programs to their phones. The book concludes with a full chapter of easy, plain-English troubleshooting steps for non-technical users, as well as a brief introduction to advanced topics such as customization.

John Eddy is a long-time gadget hobbyist who has spent most of his career helping everyday people use technology, in roles ranging from product support to moderation of online forums. Patricia DiGiacomo Eddy is an accomplished technology author and mobile phone geek whose books include Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, The Absolute Beginner's Guide to OneNote, and Access 2003: VBA Programmer's Reference.

Introduction	p. 1
Who Is This Book For?	p. 1
What Is the Open Handset Alliance?	p. 1
What Is Android?	p. 2
What Does Open Source Mean?	p. 2
G1 Features	p. 2
About This Book	p. 3
Getting the 411	p. 4
The Phone Basics	p. 5
Setting Up the Phone	p. 5
Using an Existing Google Account	p. 5
Creating a New Google Account	p. 6
Navigating the Phone's Screens	p. 7
Making and Answering Calls	p. 9
Speakerphone	p. 10
Conference Calling	p. 11
Call Waiting	p. 11
Configuring Calling Features	p. 12
Fixed Dialing Number	p. 13
Voicemail	p. 14
Call Forwarding	p. 14
Caller ID	p. 15
Call Waiting	p. 15
Operator Selection	p. 16
Managing Voicemail	p. 16
Date/Time Settings and Alarms	p. 17
Setting the Date and Time	p. 17
Setting an Alarm	p. 18
Snooze	p. 20
Deleting an Alarm	p. 21
Text Messaging	p. 21
Sending a Text Message	p. 21
Configuring Text Messaging Alert Settings	p. 22
Viewing a Received Message	p. 22
Customizing Your Phone	p. 23
Sound Settings	p. 23
Display Settings	p. 25
Autocorrect Options	p. 25
Customizing Your Home Screen	p. 26
Wallpaper	p. 26
Shortcuts	p. 27
Widgets	p. 29
Working with Contacts	p. 31
What Are Contacts?	p. 31
Viewing Your Contacts	p. 31
Adding a New Contact	p. 33
Editing an Existing Contact	p. 34
Calling a Contact	p. 36
Sending a Contact a Text Message	p. 37
Mapping a Contact's Address	p. 38
Setting Up Favorite Contacts	p. 39
Transferring Contacts from Another Phone	p. 39
Transferring Contacts from Your Computer	p. 40
Deleting a Contact	p. 40
What About All That Other Stuff?	p. 41
Using Your Calendar	p. 43
Viewing Your Calendar	p. 43
Viewing Other Calendars	p. 45
Creating a New Appointment	p. 46
Viewing Your Agenda	p. 48
Reminder Settings and Other Options	p. 49
Set Alerts & Notifications	p. 49
Select Ringtone	p. 50
Vibrate	p. 50
Set Default Reminder	p. 51
Some Tasks You Can't Perform from the Phone	p. 51
Creating a Second Calendar	p. 52
Sharing an Existing Calendar	p. 53
Adding a Public Calendar	p. 53
Inviting People to a Meeting	p. 54
Working with Email	p. 55
Overview of Gmail	p. 55
Reading Email	p. 55
Sending a New Message	p. 60
Replying to or Forwarding a Message	p. 61
Archiving an Email	p. 61
All About Labels	p. 62
Applying Labels to Received Mail Automatically	p. 63
Customizing Gmail Settings	p. 64
General Settings	p. 64
Notification Settings	p. 65
Connecting to Other Email Accounts	p. 66
Reading Email	p. 67
Sending a New Message	p. 68
Replying to or Forwarding a Message	p. 69
Deleting a Message	p. 69
Switching Between Multiple Accounts	p. 69
Removing an Account	p. 69
Taking Pictures	p. 71
Taking Pictures with Your Phone	p. 71
Save	p. 72
Set As	p. 72
Share	p. 74
Delete	p. 76
Camera Settings	p. 76
Viewing Pictures You've Taken	p. 76
Viewing a Slideshow of Your Pictures	p. 78
Basic Picture Options	p. 79
Advanced Picture Options	p. 79
Customizing Picture Settings	p. 81
Picture Size	p. 81
Picture Sort	p. 82
Confirm Deletions	p. 82
Slideshow Interval	p. 82
Slideshow Transition	p. 82
Repeat Slideshow	p. 83
Shuffle Slides	p. 83
Using Your Android-Powered Phone as a Personal Media Player	p. 85
Listening to Your Music	p. 85
Playing Music	p. 86
Creating and Using Playlists	p. 89
Party Shuffle	p. 94
Removing Songs from Your Library	p. 94
Purchasing New Songs	p. 94
Using Songs as Ringtones	p. 96
Copying Songs to Your Phone	p. 98
Watching Videos	p. 99
The Joy of YouTube	p. 99
Playing a YouTube Video	p. 100
YouTube Categories	p. 102
Searching for YouTube Videos	p. 102
Accessing Video Details	p. 103
Commenting on Videos	p. 104
Choosing Your Favorite Videos	p. 105
Sharing Videos	p. 105
Accessing YouTube Settings	p. 106
Using the Internet	p. 107
Accessing the Browser	p. 107
Opening a Website by Typing a URL	p. 108
Viewing More Than One Website at a Time	p. 109
Checking a Page for Content Updates	p. 110
Moving Through History	p. 110
There's No Place Like Home	p. 110
Sharing Web Pages with Others	p. 111
Zooming to a Better View	p. 112
Creating and Using Bookmarks	p. 113
Google Search	p. 113
Searching for Websites	p. 113
Searching for Images	p. 114
Local Searches	p. 115
Searching for News	p. 115
Advanced Web Browser Settings	p. 115
Managing Your History	p. 116
Finding Your Downloads	p. 116
Browser Settings	p. 118
Using the Rest of the Google Application Suite	p. 123
Google Talk	p. 123
Adding Friends	p. 125
Chatting with a Friend	p. 125
More IM Fun	p. 126
Friends List Options	p. 126
Instant Messaging Settings	p. 127
Other Instant Message Programs	p. 128
Adding an Account	p. 129
Frequent Chatting	p. 130
Removing an Account	p. 131
Google Maps	p. 132
Viewing a Map	p. 133
Searching for a Location	p. 141
Using Google Maps with GPS	p. 142
Getting Directions	p. 142
Other Google Applications	p. 144
Google Reader	p. 145
Google Docs	p. 147
Adding New Applications	p. 149
Finding and Installing New Applications	p. 150
Using ShopSavvy	p. 153
Using Shazam	p. 157
Managing Your Applications	p. 159
Adding Applications to Your Home Screen	p. 160
Find More Applications Using Search	p. 160
Uninstalling Unwanted Applications	p. 161
Using Wi-Fi	p. 165
Setting Up Wi-Fi	p. 166
Other Wireless Options	p. 169
Enabling Bluetooth	p. 170
Airplane Mode	p. 170
The Professor and Mary Ann: Mobile Networks	p. 171
Security	p. 173
SIM Card Lock	p. 173
Screen Lock	p. 174
Starting Over-Completely	p. 175
An Open-Source Platform	p. 177
Creating Applications for Your Phone	p. 177
Installing the SDK	p. 179
Resources	p. 182
Troubleshooting	p. 183
Service Issues	p. 183
Hardware and Software Issues	p. 184
My Phone Is Slower Than Molasses in January	p. 185
My Phone Crashed	p. 187
My Phone Won't Do Anything	p. 187
I Dropped My Phone in Water	p. 187
Resetting Your Phone	p. 188
Getting Help	p. 189
Index	p. 191
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Introduction Introduction Who Is This Book For?I'd love to say that this book is for you, no matter who you are. But no one book could cover the wide range of cell phone users when it comes to discussing a new system.So, how do you know if this book is for you?Maybe all you've ever used a standard mobile phone for is making phone calls. Maybe you occasionally send a text message or use your cell phone camera to share pictures with friends. Maybe you'd like to jump ahead to the latest phone software, but you feel a little nervous about that.If that sounds like you, I'm writing for you.However, if you're constantly buying new technologies and skipping the user's manual, preferring to play with what you've purchased and figure it out for yourself, you can still use this book as a handy quick reference to a feature that you forgot how to configure.If you're already planning what software you can write for Android, this probably isn't the right book. We give you pointers to some resources to help you write software, but this topic is not discussed in depth. What Is the Open Handset Alliance?The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a group of companies that looked at the current generation of mobile phones and decided that only by coming together could they best drive innovation and give customers a better experience when it comes to their mobile phones.These companies range from hardware manufacturers such as HTC, LG Electronics, Motorola, and Samsung, to mobile operators such as T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel, to software companies such as Google and eBay. What Is Android?Mobile phones, like your computer, have an operating system. It can be something simple, with few to no graphics and no color, that just allows you to make phone calls. Or it could be extremely powerful, letting you do almost everything you can do with your desktop computer.Android is an operating system for your mobile phone and definitely falls into the second category. Not only does Android offer you a powerful Internet experience, but tools are also provided via the Internet to let people write their own applications for the phone.In addition to Internet connectivity and programmability, Android has been released under the Apache v2 open-source license. What Does Open Source Mean?Open source has a number of different definitions, and admittedly, this particular section could sound a little techy. So let's try a basic explanation:Open source means that the words behind the software are available for anyone to read and improve.If you want to understand more, keep reading. Otherwise, skip to the next section.Software, such as Windows and Halo, is written with simple words. Those words are run through something called a compiler that takes those words that you and I can read (to varying degrees of understanding) and makes them something that computers can read and use.What this means all depends on what license is used. Just as a driver's license lets you drive, and a hunting license lets you hunt, different open-source licenses let people do different things. Some require you to take changes you might make to the software and share them by putting the changes back into the software that other people will download.

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