Galaxy Note 3: Tips & Tricks.

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Air Command™

Air Command provides quick access to your most important S Pen and device functions. The Air Command menu appears when you pull out the S Pen, simply press the button on your S Pen and the shortcut menu appears. If the S Pen is already removed, hover over the screen and press the S Pen button.

Galaxy Gear

Simplify your life all from your wrist with immediate notifications, calls and messaging―even lock and find your Note 3 with Galaxy Gear. Use S Voice™ on the Galaxy Gear to execute phone commands, send text messages and emails. Your Galaxy Gear can even receive real-time notifications, such as phone calls, calendar appointments, or text messages as they come in on your Galaxy Note 3.

Multi Window™ Enhancements

• Dual Instance: Open one app in two windows. Dual Instance is supported in Browser, YouTube™, Google Hangouts™, ChatON™ and My Files.
• Easy Sharing: Drag and drop files between certain apps, such as Gallery and Email. Easy Sharing is supported in Internet, YouTube, Contacts and Gallery.
• Window Preview: Preview active pages over the Multi Window tray.
• Paired Window: Create pairs of apps you can launch with one touch. Quickly launch pairs of apps you use most to save time.

My Magazine™

My Magazine provides a sleek and entertaining way to collect all of your personal content and find local information. Information is provided in an elegant and engaging magazine-style layout. You can even personalize your content based on your specific interests. Choose from categories such as: Here and Now, News, Personal and Social.

S Finder™

It’s easy to search or browse for content/activity by dates, tags and more with a click of the S Pen button. S Finder pulls information from handwritten notes, music, contacts, emails and more. Your results are neatly categorized.

Scrapbook

Keep track of what catches your eye―and keep it in one convenient place. Collect your favorite articles, pictures, objects, videos and web content, and add it to your personal Scrapbook. Create categories that match your interests to keep your Scrapbook organized. Keep it private or share it on your social network.

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Android Tips and tricks for the Nexus S, which features Android 2.3, Gingerbread

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From the Google blog:
Last week, I sent a note to my team with some of my favorite tips and apps for Nexus S, which features Android 2.3, Gingerbread. A lot of Googlers liked it, so we thought some of you might enjoy it as well. (Note: Many of the tips are specific to Android 2.3.)

Tips

• Visual cue for scrolling: When you are in a scrollable list (like your Gmail inbox) and you reach the end of the list it shows an orange hue—a visual cue that you can’t scroll anymore.
• Notification bar icons (Wi-Fi, network coverage bars, etc.): Turn green when you have an uninhibited connection to Google, white when you don't. Hint: if you're in a hotel or airport using Wi-Fi, the bars won't turn green until you launch the browser and get past the captive portal.
• Voice actions: Tell your phone what to do by pressing the microphone icon next to the search box on the home screen, or long press the magnifying glass. You can tell it to send an email or text message (“send text to mom, see you for pizza at 7”), call someone ("call mom"), navigate somewhere (“navigate to pizza”), or listen to music ("listen to Mamma Mia").
• Find things you’ve downloaded from your browser: Your downloads are now neatly collected in a Downloads manager, which you can find in the apps drawer.
• Turn a Gallery stack into a slideshow: In Gallery, when you are looking at a stack of photos, put two fingers on the stack and spread them. The stack spreads out and the pictures flow from one finger to the other, a moving slideshow that lets you see all of the photos.
• Walk, don’t drive: Once you’ve gotten directions within Google Maps, click on the walking person icon to get walking directions.
• Easy text copy/paste from a webpage: To copy/paste from a webpage, long press some text, drag the handles around to select the text you want to copy, and press somewhere in the highlighted region. To paste, simply long press a text entry box and select paste. Gmail is a bit different: you need to go to Menu > More > Select Text.
• Turn your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot: Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Tethering & Portable Hotspot. (You may have to pay extra for this feature.)
• Look at Maps in 3D: With the latest release of Google Maps, you can now look at 3D maps. Tilt the map by sliding two fingers vertically up/down the screen, and rotate it by placing two fingers on the map and sliding in a circular motion, e.g., from 12 and 6 o’clock to 3 and 9.
• Cool shutdown effect: When you put the phone to sleep, you’ll see an animation that resembles an old cathode tube TV turning off.

Keyboard tricks

• Shift+Key to capitalize a word: In Gingerbread (and supported hardware), you can Shift+Key to capitalize a letter instead of going to a separate all caps keyboard.
• Auto-complete: The space bar lights up when auto-complete can finish a word.
• Quick replace: Tap on any previously typed word, then tap on a suggestion to automatically replace it with the suggested word.
• Easy access to special characters (like numbers, punctuation): Press and hold any key to go to the special character keyboard. You can also press and hold the "," key for an extensive punctuation keyboard.

Applications

• Angry Birds: Popular game that lets you knock down blocks by slingshotting birds.
• Astro: Awesome file explorer app. Browse and access the directories on your phone, and take full advantage of its capabilities. Great if you’re a power user.
• Chrome to Phone: This one is really useful for Chrome users. You can send anything you browse on your computer to your phone. So if you are heading out to a restaurant or party and look up directions on your computer, just click the “send to phone” button (requires Chrome to Phone extension) and that exact page will open on your phone. Same with virtually any webpage.
• Flash: Install from Android Market to watch Flash videos embedded throughout the web. Runs even better on Gingerbread.
• Fruit Ninja: A juicy action game that tests your ability to smash flying fruit. A fun time-killer on the bus or train.
• FXCamera: Popular photo sharing app with slick effects and filters.
• Google Maps: Use your device as a GPS navigation system with free turn-by-turn voice guidance, and take advantage of other Google Maps features like Street View, Latitude and Places.
• Instant Heart Rate: Measure your heart rate using your camera.
• Phoneanlyzr: Track your phone usage: who you text most, call most, average call length distribution, etc.
• RemoteDroid: Control your computer from your phone. Gives you a mobile wireless mouse and keyboard. Great if you’re using your computer for music or movies.
• Shazam: Identifies virtually any song you are listening to.
• SoundHound: Record a snippet of a song and get it identified instantly. You can even hum (if you can carry a tune!).
• Tango: A free, high-quality video call app that works on both 3G and Wi-Fi. If your device has a front facing camera (e.g., Nexus S), you will love this app.
• YouTube: New UI. Plus, portrait-mode player, and view comments and drop-down box video information

Posted by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management


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