User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- Your phone and accessories
- Android basics
- In this section
- Launching Android the first time
- Getting to know the Home screen
- Using the touchscreen
- Using the trackball
- Using the phone’s buttons
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Editing text
- Opening applications
- Working with menus
- Monitoring your phone’s status
- Managing notifications
- Searching your phone and the web
- Locking your screen
- Customizing the Home screen
- Connecting to networks and devices
- Placing and receiving calls
- Contacts
- Gmail
- In this section
- Gmail is different
- Opening Gmail and your Inbox
- Reading your messages
- Composing and sending a message
- Replying to or forwarding a message
- Working with conversations in batches
- Labeling a conversation
- Starring a message
- Viewing conversations by label
- Reporting spam
- Searching for messages
- Archiving conversations
- Synchronizing your messages
- Appending a signature to your messages
- Changing Gmail settings
- Calendar
- In this section
- Viewing your calendar and events
- Working in Agenda view
- Working in Day view
- Working in Week view
- Working in Month view
- Viewing an event’s details
- Creating an event
- Editing or deleting an event
- Setting a reminder for an event
- Responding to an event reminder
- Displaying and synchronizing calendars
- Changing Calendar settings
- Google Talk
- Messaging
- Browser
- Maps
- In this section
- Opening Maps and viewing your location
- Changing map views
- Searching for locations and places
- Getting directions
- Finding your friends with Google Latitude
- Camera and Camcorder
- Gallery
- In this section
- Opening Gallery and viewing your albums
- Working with pictures
- To view and browse pictures
- To watch a slideshow of your pictures
- To rotate a picture
- To crop a picture
- To use a picture as a contact icon or as Home screen wallpaper
- To get details about a picture
- To view the location of a picture in Google Maps
- To share a picture by sending it to friends
- To share a picture by uploading it to Picasa
- To delete a picture
- Working with videos
- Changing Gallery settings
- YouTube
- Music
- Alarm Clock
- Calculator
- Market
- Settings
- In this section
- Opening Settings
- Wireless controls
- Call settings
- Sound & display settings
- Location & security settings
- Applications settings
- Accounts & synchronization settings
- SD card & phone storage settings
- Search settings
- Language & keyboard settings
- Accessibility settings
- Text-to-speech settings
- Date & time settings
- About phone
- Appendix
- Specifications
- Regulatory Notices
- Additional Safety Information
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Gmail is different
Gmail is web-based Your messages are stored on Google servers, but you
read, write, and organize messages using the Gmail application on your phone or
using a web browser on a computer. Because your mail is stored on Google
servers, you can also search your entire message history, backed by the speed and
power of Google search.
Actions you take in one place are reflected everywhere: for example, if you read a
message in Gmail on your phone, it’s marked as read in a web browser; a message
you send using a web browser, or even a draft of a message, is visible in Gmail on
the phone.
Gmail is conversation-based Each message and all replies to it are grouped
in your Inbox as a single conversation. In other email applications, replies to
messages are sprinkled across your inbox, typically by date received, so a message
and the replies to it are separated by other messages. In this way Gmail makes is
easier to follow the “thread” of a conversation.
Gmail is organized by labels, not folders By tagging messages with labels,
you can organize your conversations in as many ways as you want. In other email
applications, each message can live only in one folder. For example, with Gmail
you can label a conversation with your mother about your brother’s birthday
present with both “Mom” and “Dave.” Later, you can look for the message under
either label. Using folders, you’d have to store the message in the “Mom” folder or
the “Dave” folder, not both.
Gmail for the phone is optimized for mobile: use the web to organize
Gmail
The best place to organize and learn about Gmail is the web. For
example, you can’t use the Gmail application on the phone to create the labels
and filters you use to organize your messages, but you can label a message. Gmail
on the web also offers a host of information about the service, so it’s the best
place to learn about all of the features of Gmail.
Gmail is for Gmail Of course you can use Gmail to send email to any email
address and anyone can send email to you at your Gmail address, but if you want
to read messages from another email service provider (using your AOL, Yahoo!, or
other email account), use the Email application (see “Email” on page 147).