My Samsung Galaxy S III (My...series) 1st Edition

I attended a Beginners crash course given by my cell phone provider PRIOR to getting my phone. The young man teaching the class was excellent and knowledgeable. However, it was bare basic info on how to turn your phone on and off, how to retrieve calls, etc. Anyone with any cell phone knowledge at all, as well as computer knowledge, would have found that class a waste of time. Such was the case with me. A friend suggested I pop over to Amazon and get a "dummies" book. Lord knows I have purchased many of those over the years, but never even thought of getting one for a smart phone. I found this book and an actual "dummies" book. I read reviews on each and chose this one. SMART MOVE! There have been a few things that I needed help with and did not find in the book, but was able to do a quick search online to get my answer. This book should be in the hands of anyone who is purchasing a Galaxy S III. I highly recommend it. Great graphics and easy to understand instructions.

A very well written and logically thought out explanation of a device which would seem, at first glance (and nearly a year's use) to be inexplicable! Example. It has an index!! And you can actually look up a topic, page through the book to find it, and go back to the index (where you have carefully inserted a bookmark) and keep exploring without losing any reference. And you don't have to have the correct technical lingo - the book allows topics to be explored using regular English. You can take it with you, if necessary, without carrying a computer to carry the downloaded data books available from Samsung - they don't provide any hard or soft-covered copy with the phone. Mr Schwartz's specialty seems to be to provide well-written, readable, searchable information; in logical sequence; that a novice with the device - one who doesn't know the technical lingo in the first place - can use to find out how to do the multitude of things it seems to offer.

I bought a book at Costco that covered all the Samsung Galaxy devices that I thought would be helpful to me when I first started up my new Galaxy S3....well, it wasn't. It was geared to people who had used smart phones in the past and it only explained some of the fancy stuff the Galaxy will do. THIS BOOK is amazing. It assumes you don't know doodley - and tells you where the microphone is....how to turn the thing off and on....how to get it out of the BLACK power saver screen. This is the best purchase I could have made. I haven't finished reading the book but I will because I want to make full use of my Galaxy. I want to add that when I was researching which smart phone to buy, I actually had an arrogant 20-something (son of a friend) programmer tell me that I should get an I-phone because they were "easier" to use and I could get help at the I-Phone store and that the Galaxy S3 was a superior phone but was really more suited to programmers. Well, that surely did tick me off. I have salt and pepper hair but my intellect is still very much intact thankyouverymuch. Galaxy wouldn't be selling these things like hotcakes if they were difficult to use........and for other seniors out there, it is a piece of cake - buy the book. You will be glad you did.

Can not imagine needing anything more than the S3. Have used on Virgin Mobile (Sprint) system for about six months. Local telephone company (also my ISP) had to help with setting up E-mail. I have added one "app" used to read bar-codes. Use about four of the "apps" included and sure wish that I could remove the large number of unwanted "apps." Included "Calendar" works and selected other people are able to add appointments. But it is not as good, nor as intuitive, as the old Palm-Pilot calendar.Battery goes a whole 16 hour day. Screen is easy to read even with small font size type-faces. Color rendering is very good. The screen keyboard is easy to use with finger and the scheme for suggesting the word being typed works rather well.Can not evaluate telephone part as I have only had two or three phone calls. Used almost exclusively for three E-mail accounts, a picture now-and-then, and to look at a local map. I added a $1 clear plastic cover (over back and sides) and an internal memory card (which has seen almost no use). I doubt that the S4 and S5 have added much of actual value.

Because the Samsung Galaxy S3 is my first smartphone, I thought it best for me to obtain a user's manual. This is a good manual. The on-line tutorials provided by my carrier, ATT, were only for the basic operations of this phone. The manual is very in-depth. I simply can't remember where everything is I want to do, so I frequently refer to this book's index and off and away I go. There have been a few things I have read but can't find easily when I want to review, but I eventually do find the place again. My only negatives about this book is it doesn't specify in absolute detail all of the steps necessary for some operations. I think this can be attributed to newer released phones from when this book was published.As complex as this smartphone is, this book has helped me immensely. This phone does more than I really need a device to do. In that way, being able to read a book and operate the phone at the same time enables me to check out what it does without making too many errors along the way or enabling an app I really don't want. I am glad I bought this book. I'm old school and prefer reading a book than reading on-line. I find it nearly impossible to read on-line and operate the device I'm reading about at the same time whether it's my smartphone or my laptop/PC.Additionally, as I become more familiar with my phone and want to do more, I turn to this book first for an explanation and review that first before engaging in something new. I'm methodical so that course works better for me.