Chapter 3

How Your Galaxy Tab Works

In This Chapter

arrow Working the touchscreen

arrow Changing the volume

arrow Understanding the Home screen

arrow Checking notifications

arrow Running apps

arrow Multitasking

arrow Identifying various icons

At one time, you could gauge how advanced a piece of technology was by how many buttons it had. Early computers with their dozens of switches and blinking lights represented the pinnacle of twentieth-century achievement. Then things began to change.

Today’s most advanced technology, which is the Galaxy tablet you hold in your hands, sports few buttons and only one blinking light. The absence of buttons and blinking lights means that you must control the device in other ways.

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