Smartphone & Tablet Productivity

If you frequently call, text or e-mail a specific person, you can add a Contact widget to your Home Screen to make the process quicker. The process may vary slightly depending on the Model of your Android phone, but this tutorial will point you in the right direction.

To improve the accuracy of Google’s speech recognition, you can download the English language pack to your Android. Some Androids may already have the download, but you should double check that it is turned on. The process may look slightly different on your Android device, but this tutorial will point you in the right direction.

Android can learn your voice and speech pattern over time, this will help the voice recognition to be more accurate over time. The process may look slightly different on your Android device, but this tutorial will point you in the right direction.

Notifications from apps can be annoying interruptions to your work day. These notifications can be turned off individually, as you receive them. The process may look slightly different on your Android device, but this tutorial will point you in the right direction.

Just like on your computer, you may want to set a Home Page that opens when you open your internet browser on your Android smart phone or tablet. This tutorial applies to the browser that came installed with your Android (not Chrome, see separate tutorial). This process is shown using a Samsung Galaxy Series.