Friday, February 3, 2012

Smart phones

Did you know that:
  • You can use your smart phone as a portable Wi-Fi hotspot as long as it has an operable data line (enabled data service).
  • It has numerous applications (apps) that are put in various categories, example apps are office, cad, communication, dictionaries, math, plotting, religious books plus much more.
  • the smart phones have 3 memory types, phone, internal SD and external SD (2 GB, 4, 8,..). You can check the available memory on the different cards using the following steps: Go into Settings, then move to (click or choose) SD card & phone storage.
  • You can add short cuts to your favourite apps. You can as well manage the installed/running apps by going to Settings, then choosing Applications and from there click Manage applications.
  • To convert your phone (temporarily) into a usb storage device to be connected to your computer through a suitable usb cable so that files can be exchanged (transferred) between the phone and the computer, you may follow the following steps: touch the settings button o you phone, choose wireless & networks, then choose wireless & networks, then choose tethering & hotspots and finally choose usb tethering.
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Smart phone apps

Most of the applications that you see on your desktop are available on the smart phone, at least the functions under different program names. Here are some of the applications that will be covered in this presentation: laguages, dictionaries & verbs, web browsers & editors, world-wide newspapers, text editors, office (suite), graphics programs , CAD, GPS, e-mail and social networks. Before starting, I would recommend that you would create a few folders in one of the shortcut screens, maybe the one having the file manager icon. You might name them as follows:dictionaries, languages, etc.
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