Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Meyer Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Please Help a Newbie Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:49:33 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 59 Message-ID: <55A5BC2D.8020104@yahoo.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d1f47bf466274cea58b8356d8ce674d2"; logging-data="14249"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/04fgvymWLkyKG41QwjdI0" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:DZeHQzom/gVaog9UcZsIgDP6J7w= Xref: aioe.org comp.mobile.android:21011 On 7/14/2015 10:57 AM, Ricardo Jimenez wrote: > I had never used a smart phone or touch screen device. But I decided > to get an android tablet to be used mostly as an e reader for > technical and educational books. I chose the Dell Venue 10 7000 > because of good reviews. I have been trying to get confident with it > for the past few days but have quite a ways to go. I am looking for > suggestions for online help. I have already downloaded lots of apps > from the google play store and transferred files from my windows > computer that I want to read on the tablet. > > 1. The lack of menus accessible from the top of the screen, as you > have in PC programs, is most disconcerting. I understand that you > have such access by swiping fingers in various ways but I haven't > found a general explanation. > > 2. I installed the standard free file manager apps like ES file > Explorer but find them excruciatingly difficult to learn how to do the > simplest things that you can do with Windows Explorer like deleting or > moving a file to another folder or even making a new folder. > > I guess this group is mostly for phone users. Is their a similar one > for tablets? Thanks in advance. There are a lot of books written like "Android Tablets for Dummies", "100 Ways to Use Your Android Device", "Android Tablets for Beginners and Seniors", "Android Tablet Basics", etc., that try to give simple tutorials on how to use your device. I suggest you get one. I have found that the ideal way to pick a book is to go to a big bookstore that has tons of books, e.g., Barnes and Noble, pick out all their introduction to Android books, and take them to a table. Then take a couple of problems that you are trying to figure out and look them up in each book. You'll probably find one that explains things well, and in a way that you understand. If that's not practical for you (e.g., no big bookstores nearby), you can use Amazon. Read the review of other readers. Look for books that have lots of reviews and lots of stars for their reviews. Use the "Look Inside" feature to read a few pages. Look at the section that begins "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought ..." A lot of these books are very cheap in Kindle editions. If you've figured out how to use the Kindle reader, that's an option for you. But if you prefer a paperback, the prices are still usually pretty cheap. Read the book and use it as a reference. I think after you learn a few things, you'll have the background to learn more and then more and it will all get easier. You'll get surprisingly proficient in a matter of weeks. Be sure that the book has information for your version of Android! If, for example, you're using Android 4.4 or 5.1, don't buy an old book that only covers up to Android 2.3 or 3.0. Best of luck. Alan