- on an incoming phone call, just lay the device on the display and the ringtone will be muted. It does not send your caller to the mailbox, just mutes the tone
- to sync your Google Account with the phone, don't use "Google" as Account-Type, use "Exchange" and do the following:
- Enter username and password (the user name here must be the full email address like "yourname@googlemail.com"
- domain can be left blank
- put "m.google.com" as URL and I recommend using SSL
- You can select the data that should be synced (contacts, calendar, emails etc.) but unfortunately you can only sync your main Google calendar
I also just downloaded Samsung Kies (v1.5.0) to test it with my Wave. Make sure you have the set the USB-Connection to "Samsung Kies" on the device. To do so, press the center button to get into your apps, select "setting" and go to "connections". At the very bottom of the list it says USB where you can select several types to use with the phone. Select "Samsung Kies" here. Open Kies and connect your device, it should be recognized immediately ... it took around 5 seconds. (I assume you have installed all necessary device drivers on your computer before)
Now, Kies main functionality is to copy phone data to your computer. It comes with some additional tools like a video-editor, but does not combine the download function for it. So the way to go to edit a video you took with your Wave would be:- download all videos from phone to PC
- open video-editor
- select video that was stored on PC
What I really like because I haven't seen it before is the Samsung App Store in Kies.You can download apps from the Store via Kies and install them from there to your device. That is really a very nice feature. Currently I only found less then 200 apps in the store but I predict that there will be a lot more coming soon. (I won't get my MetricCalc-App ready before my vacation, but I think it should be in the market in 5 to 6 weeks)
Another thing is the phone book and calendar sync. You can store (or backup) all your data to you computer and also sync with Outlook via Kies. That is nice, but: I have synced my Google Contacts via the previously explained method using the Exchange-Account-Connector and my phone book really has a bunch of contacts now ... Kies doesn't see them. Kies only knows about contacts directly stored on the phone .. why is that? It would have been more then awesome to have full access, unfortunately that is not the case.
There are also some additional applications in Kies like a music player and photo-editor so it kind of looks like a very light version of a mac with some applications. I have no opinion whether this is good or bad. With Kies you can also use your device as internet connection which I think is a great feature too. We all know that the Wave already comes with an integrated AccessPoint which can be used for tethering with WiFi, but hey, there are still laptops out there that don't have a WiFi connection, so USB does the job.
I hope this post answers some questions I had in comments lately.
