Samsung Focus Owners Manual

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Taking Photos
Taking photos with your device’s built-in camera is as simple as
choosing a subject, pointing the camera, and pressing the
camera key.
Important!:Do not take photos of people without their permission.
Do not take photos in places where cameras are not allowed.
Do not take photos in places where you may interfere with
another person’s privacy.
To activate the camera mode:
1.From the Home screen, tap➔Camera.
–or–
Press the Camera key ( ).
2.Using the phone’s main display screen...

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Warning!:This uses your data plan and may incur charges.
1.Touchchoose an option, then touch one of following
options:
 friends: to share your pictures only with friends.
: to make your pictures available only to you.
 everyone (public): to let everyone view your pictures.
 don’t upload: to keep your photos from being uploaded to SkyDrive
(see“Uploading To SkyDrive”on page 53).
2.Touchok.
Shooting Videos
Tip:When shooting video in direct sunlight or in bright conditions, it is
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Wide Dynamic Range: turn this option on to overcome large
difference in foreground and background light levels.
Photo Resolution: allows you to set the image size to either:
VGA (640x480), 2M (1600x1200), 3M (2048x1536), or
5M (2560x1920).
Anti-Shaking: turn this option on for clear and blur-free photos
even when your hands are shaking or when your subjects are
moving.
The following options appear for the camcorder only:
Video Quality: allows you to set the video quality to Low,
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Viewing Photos and Videos
To view photos and videos while in Camera:
1.Drag the photo or video at the left of the display area onto
the display area. Sweep across the screen to the right to
view more photos and videos.
2.While viewing a photo, touch each side of the photo and
swipe inward or outward to zoom in or out. You can
magnify the photo up to 400 percent.
Touch and drag a magnified photo to move the focus to the
area you touch.
3.To play videos, touch . Touch to pause the video
playback. Touch...

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Accessing Photos and Videos
When you take a photo or shoot a video, the file is saved in the
Pictures folder. You can view your photos and videos immediately
or view them anytime in the Camera folder.
©From the Home screen, tap➔Pictures
➔all, date, favorites.
For more information, refer to“Pictures”on page 53.
Assigning an Image To a Contact
The Camera is also used to create an image that can be assigned
to the profile of one of your contacts or to your Me profile.
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Section 7: Messaging
This section describes how to send and receive different types of
messages. It also includes the features and functionality
associated with messaging.
Types of Messages
Your phone provides the following message types:
Text Messages
Multimedia (Picture) Messages
Email Messages
The Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive text
messages to and from other mobile phones or email addresses.
To use this feature, you may need to subscribe to your service
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Tap the button to add additional recipients from your
People list. Each contact is placed in the
Tofield separated
by a semicolon (;).
–or–
Add more recipients by touching the recipient field.
Note:Each additional recipient entry must be separated by a semicolon (;).
5.To remove recipients, tap the entry in theTofield then tap
remove. You can alsoopenthe contact’s profile orcancel
and return to the New Message screen.
6.Touch thetype a messagebox and use the on-screen
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For more information, refer to“Camera”on page 55.
6.Touch thetype a messagebox and use the on-screen
keypad to type your message. For more information, refer
to“Entering Text”on page 34.
7.Touchremoveto remove an attachment from the
message.
8.Review your message and touchsend.
Messaging Conversations
Any messages you have sent or received can be viewed in the
Messaging conversations list.
Sent and received text and picture messages are grouped into
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The Messaging conversation is displayed. Each message
to or from the recipient, and the time that the message
was sent or received, is shown in a message box.
Messages sent to you are shown in a From message
box
.Messages that you sent are shown in a To
message box
.
3.Touch thetype a messagebox and use the on-screen
keypad to type a reply message to the recipient. For more
information, refer to“Entering Text”on page 34.
Viewing a Picture Attachment
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Deleting a Messaging Conversation
To delete a Messaging conversation:
1.From the Home screen, touchMessaging.
–or–
Touch➔Messaging.
The Messaging conversations list displays any messages
you have sent or received.
2.Touch and hold a message in the list, then touchdelete.
–or–
Touch a message in the list, then touch
➔delete conversation.
3.Touchdeleteto delete all messages in the selected
conversation or touch
cancelto return to Messaging
conversations.
Deleting a Message
To delete a message in a...