It’s basically one of the tutorial sections from the Complete Android Guide ebook, made pretty and marked up with fold lines, so you can stuff it inside a phone box, wrap it in with a phone, or stick it in a stocking or card. It covers some real essentials, like making sure you’ve got data roaming turned off and an unlock code enabled, to conveniences most Android owners will want, like replacing their carrier voicemail with Google’s own transcribed Google Voice product. The tips are explained tap by tap, so it walks someone just touching their phone for the first time through setting up links on their home screen to call important contacts and get directions home.
If it’s helpful, you could consider the Complete Android Guide ebook or print edition. But this one’s free. Grab the PDF from the Android-in-stocking image at the top of this link.
Hunter Beanland
Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at 9:29 AMor you can just download and read the official (and free) Android User Guide:
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/www.google.com/en//googlephone/AndroidUsersGuide.pdf
You would think Google would put a link on the Android desktop to give users half a chance of finding this hidden gem.