Manipulating the Screen

Like many tablets these days, the Galaxy Tab doesn’t come with a stylus (essentially a stick) for manipulating elements on the screen. Instead, you use your fingers and change the orientation of the Galaxy Tab itself to make it do what you want. Although the examples in this section are for the Galaxy Tab 7", you manipulate elements on the Galaxy Tab 10" screen in the same way. If there are different instructions for manipulating the screen for the Tab 10" model, we’ll note them in a different subsection.

Tapping an Element

Unlike a desktop or laptop computer, you don’t have a mouse installed on your Galaxy Tab, so there is no cursor that you can see. However, when you quickly tap an element with your finger, the Galaxy Tab performs an action. For example, when you tap an application icon, the Galaxy Tab launches the application.