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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016944311
ISBN: 978-1-119-27998-3
ISBN 978-1-119-27999-0 (ebk); ISBN ePDF 978-1-119-28000-2 (ebk)
Welcome to Samsung Gear S2 For Dummies, which is your guide to using the Gear S2 smartwatch in your everyday life.
You may have picked up this book because you’ve already purchased a Samsung Gear S2 (congratulations!) or you’re thinking about buying the Gear S2 thanks to all the interest and great reviews from the computing media. Either way, this book offers a great way to learn about Samsung’s cutting-edge wearable device.
Chances are that you’re brand new to wearable computing. You may have been interested in wearing a smartwatch, but up until the Gear S2, you haven’t seen a smartwatch that has interested you. Or you may already have a Gear S2 but want to know everything there is to know about it.
This is why this book is a soup-to-nuts presentation of how to set up the Gear S2, use it with your Android smartphone, and find apps that you can download and use to get the most use and fun from your smartwatch.
Unlike other books that require you to read an entire chapter in one sitting to understand what’s going on, you can open this book anywhere and read about the topic that interests you at the moment. That is, you can search the book for information you need, read the page that has your answers, and then get back to work (or play).
You may notice that there are sidebars stippled throughout the book and you may run into one or more on the page you’re reading. I cover the different types of sidebars later in this introduction.
I also use some basic technical conventions in this book that you should know about so you aren’t confused or surprised by them:
