Using Your Device to Search

Use the Google Search box to

manually search for a term on both your device and on the Web.

1.Press to launch the Google Search box.

2.Tap to select a search area.

All: searches your device, the Web, and the Android Market for your search term.

Web: searches for your term only on the Web

using the Google search engine.

Apps: searches for your term only within the Android Market.

Contacts: searches for your term only within your current Contacts entries.

Note: To hide the onscreen keyboard and see more of your search matches,

press .

3.Tap a match from the list of suggestions, phone search results, or previously chosen search matches. Once touched, the item opens in the appropriate application.

– or –

Touching Voice Search ( ) lets you speak into your microphone to enter a search term.

To search the phone and Web by entering text:

1.Press to launch the Google Search box.

Note: There might be instances in an application where pressing reveals only an application-specific search.

Press twice to open the Quick Search box.

2.Use the onscreen keyboard to enter your search term. See “Entering Text Using the Android Keyboard” on page 35.

As you type, matching items on your device and matches from Google’s Web search are added to the onscreen list of previously chosen search results.

Search preferences and settings can be configured to display suggestions in a different manner. (See “Search Settings” on page 68.)

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Samsung SCH-M828C Using Your Device to Search, Tap to select a search area, Using the Google search engine, Press