Book Description
Here’s how to get as smart as your phone

Your Series 60 smartphone is one really cool gadget. Here’s how to take advantage of 101 reasons why they call it “smart.”

This is no boring user’s manual, but the key that unlocks tricks you never guessed your phone could do. Find out how to blacklist unwanted calls, set your camera features on “fast draw” so you never miss a shot, create your own ringtones, send video, encrypt data on your phone, install and remove software, and so much more. Get expert advice on buying a smartphone, configuring it, and transferring data from your old phone Send automatic text message responses to callers Replace your phone’s wallpaper with your own images Create an e-book you can read on your phone Quickly locate files and multimedia Super-size your caller ID Use shortcuts to fast-forward, rewind, or play back vodeo Connect to your PC via Bluetooth or infrared technology Lock your memory card and back up data stored there or in your phone memory Open Zip files on your phone


About the Author
Dean Andrews works in Nokia's Mobile Phone Division, where he delights in uncovering new ways to use these exciting devices. The author of Windows 98 Hints & Hacks and a former tips columnist, he has also penned feature articles about mobile computing for such publications as PC World, Macworld, and The Web Magazine.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
Got one of those hot new Smartphones (from Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Panasonic, Sendo, or whoever)? We￯﾿ﾽll bet you￯﾿ﾽve barely scratched the surface of what that baby can do. Start with the 101 terrific ideas in this book.

Here￯﾿ﾽs the simple download that lets you start sending automatic text message responses to your callers -- and the one that lets you ￯﾿ﾽblacklist￯﾿ﾽ unwanted calls. Here￯﾿ﾽs how to set the timer on your camera, so you can get into the picture. How to cannibalize images and audio clips from incoming messages, so you can reuse them in your own. How to search a message for a phone number or email address. Maybe you know how to buy ringtones: here￯﾿ﾽs how to create them.

From 1-touch dialing to calendar alarms, this book￯﾿ﾽs packed with goodies -- and most of them apply to ￯﾿ﾽSeries 60￯﾿ﾽ Smartphones from any manufacturer. (Where only certain phones support a feature, the author clues you in.) You￯﾿ﾽll learn how to use predictive text to write faster messages; how to create multimedia messages that look like slide shows; even how to view Word, Excel, or Powerpoint files on your phone.

Of course, anything this feature-rich is bound to require occasional troubleshooting. That￯﾿ﾽs here, too: fixing low-memory warnings and misbehaving Bluetooth connections, stopping ￯﾿ﾽnever-ending￯﾿ﾽ message retrievals; even uncovering the hidden meaning of your phone manufacturer￯﾿ﾽs secret codes. And, yes, Smartphones, too, have security problems. You￯﾿ﾽll learn how to encrypt your messages, even how to protect yourself from Bluesnarfing, a.k.a. Bluetooth data theft.

Whatever floats your boat -- fun, productivity, or safety -- you are going to love 101 Cool Smartphone Techniques. Bill Camarda, from the April 2005 Read Only

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Here’s how to get as smart as your phone

Your Series 60 smartphone is one really cool gadget. Here’s how to take advantage of 101 reasons why they call it “smart.”

This is no boring user’s manual, but the key that unlocks tricks you never guessed your phone could do. Find out how to blacklist unwanted calls, set your camera features on “fast draw” so you never miss a shot, create your own ringtones, send video, encrypt data on your phone, install and remove software, and so much more. Get expert advice on buying a smartphone, configuring it, and transferring data from your old phone Send automatic text message responses to callers Replace your phone’s wallpaper with your own images Create an e-book you can read on your phone Quickly locate files and multimedia Super-size your caller ID Use shortcuts to fast-forward, rewind, or play back vodeo Connect to your PC via Bluetooth or infrared technology Lock your memory card and back up data stored there or in your phone memory Open Zip files on your phone

Product Description:
101 Cool Smartphone Techniques will be the "first to market" consumer-targeted tips book for this new popular platform. This will be the "manual that should have been in the box." For example, where a phone manual describes Bluetooth simply by telling users how to activate a Bluetooth connection, 101 Cool Smartphone Techniques will show users how to transfer images back and forth from a camera phone to PC or PDA via a Bluetooth connection.This timely book will deliver engaging step-by-step tips on taking pictures, sharing images, transferring images, connecting your phone to your PC, making use of online Mobile Web logs (Moblogs) and online digital photo services, and more. It will also connect consumers to useful Web sites for sharing and editing photos and learning more camera phone news and tips.

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