Everything you need is pretty much accessed via the ‘Settings’ icon that’s probably on the ‘Home Screen’. If you’re not on the home screen, you might have to swipe the screen to navigate to it.
Naturally, all of your Apps can be accessed via the ‘Apps’ Icon.(usually located on the bottom next to the Browser, ect) You can find the Settings Icon/App in the Apps area too.
When you find an App that you will use often, you may want to drag it onto your Home Screen, or any other screen. Within the Apps area, there’s a fairly robust ‘Help’ App that can show you basically anything you are wanting to know. Just search the Help section for what you’re wanting to learn about.
If you are wanting to look for Apps to install, you can look for them via the Google Play Store App. As with a home OEM PC the Apps installed from the factory generally suck. There are LOTS of pretty good Apps that can be had for free from the Play Store. Most free Apps will have an ad banner or something of the like. If you like the App and are sufficiently annoyed by the ads, there’s usually an option to pay for the ad free version, and they normally only cost a dollar or two. It’s pretty rare to find an App that costs more than $5-$10, but some do.
You’ll also need a gmail account. You’ll want to review the account settings, and make sure you have a desired amount of “Privacy”. The more intrusive settings/features are disabled by default, but you’ll want to make sure.(also apply this logic to the privacy settings on your phone/Apps as well)
You can find lots of help online. Just Google around for it. Those are VERY popular phones, and you shouldn’t have any trouble at all in finding information on the intrawebs.
No, you don't. They told me the same thing when I bought my S3. But what they mean is you need a google account. And you can certainly have that without gmail, which is just Google's email service.
That's one of the weird and frustrating parts. We got two phones and when my wife goes to 'settings' she gets a long list of choices, I get 7.
That's why I am looking for a step by step tutorial that talks about function and not just making movies or playing music for three friends at once.
...this getting old is getting old!