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Android smartphones for seniors / by Marsha Collier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: --For dummiesPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: xi, 322 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781119828488
  • 1119828481
Other title:
  • Android smartphones for seniors for dummies
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Contents:
Part 1: Your phone in the Android universe. Why Android? What's the deal? -- Buying your Android smartphone and accessories -- Activating and connecting your phone -- Part 2: Getting started with your Android smartphone. Safety first: Making your new phone private -- Personalizing your handset -- Android typing tricks with Google's Gboard -- Handling notifications and Google Assistant -- Part 3: Let's start communicating. Chatting via voice or video -- Keeping track of friends and appointments -- Texting with poise and character -- Managing email with the Gmail app -- Choosing and using a smartphone camera -- Part 4: Exploring Android apps. Preinstalled tools you want to use -- Google mobile services apps for Android -- Apps you might like in Google Play Store -- Part 5: Android today and tomorrow. Marsha's MUST-DO things for your phone -- Android 12 and beyond: The OS evolution.
Summary: Android smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel models, offer great ways to simplify and enhance your life. From easy ways to stay in touch with your friends and family to helpful reminders for everyday tasks, Android phones can keep you connected and current at all times. Sometimes, though, the learning curve can seem a little steep.-- Amazon.com.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 004.167 C699 Available 33111010623730
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 004.167 C699 Available 33111009867744
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The quickest and easiest way to outsmart your Android smartphone

Android smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel models, offer great ways to simplify and enhance your life. From easy ways to stay in touch with your friends and family to helpful reminders for everyday tasks, Android phones can keep you connected and current at all times. Sometimes, though, the learning curve can seem a little steep.

But it doesn't have to! Android Phones For Seniors For Dummies is your one-stop guide to discovering the essentials on how to take charge of your Android-powered phone. It skips the techspeak and confusing jargon to deliver key information in a straightforward and reader-friendly way.

With this book, you'll learn to:

Navigate your way around your smartphone so you can easily open and close apps, access info, and see photos Read your email and messages so you can stay in touch with the important people in your life Secure your phone so you can be assured that you, and only you, can access the sensitive data on it

Printed using larger-print type and accompanied by full-color pictures that show you how to apply the step-by-step instructions, this easy handbook is the only resource you'll need to make the most of your Android phone.

Includes index.

Android smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel models, offer great ways to simplify and enhance your life. From easy ways to stay in touch with your friends and family to helpful reminders for everyday tasks, Android phones can keep you connected and current at all times. Sometimes, though, the learning curve can seem a little steep.-- Amazon.com.

Part 1: Your phone in the Android universe. Why Android? What's the deal? -- Buying your Android smartphone and accessories -- Activating and connecting your phone -- Part 2: Getting started with your Android smartphone. Safety first: Making your new phone private -- Personalizing your handset -- Android typing tricks with Google's Gboard -- Handling notifications and Google Assistant -- Part 3: Let's start communicating. Chatting via voice or video -- Keeping track of friends and appointments -- Texting with poise and character -- Managing email with the Gmail app -- Choosing and using a smartphone camera -- Part 4: Exploring Android apps. Preinstalled tools you want to use -- Google mobile services apps for Android -- Apps you might like in Google Play Store -- Part 5: Android today and tomorrow. Marsha's MUST-DO things for your phone -- Android 12 and beyond: The OS evolution.

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