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Familiar iPod Features - iphone

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In certain respects, the iPhone is not an iPod. It doesn’t have a click wheel, it
doesn’t come with any games, it doesn’t display lyrics, it can’t output video to
a TV set, and it doesn’t offer disk mode (where the iPod acts as a hard drive for
transporting computer files). At least not in version 1.
It does have a long list of traditional iPod features, though. You just have to
know where to find them.

Volume Limiter
It’s now established fact: Listening to a lot of loud music through earphones
can damage your hearing. Pump it today, pay for it tomorrow.
MP3 players can be sinister that way, because in noisy places like planes and
city streets, people turn up the volume much louder than they would in a
quiet place, and they don’t even realize how high they’ve cranked it. No wonder
parents worry about their kids.
That’s why Apple created the password-protected volume limiter. It lets parents
program their children’s iPods (and now iPhones) to max out at a certain
volume level that can be surpassed only with the password.
To set up the volume limiter and its password.

Sound Check
This feature smoothes out the master volume levels of tracks from different
albums, helping to compensate for differences in their original recording
levels. It doesn’t deprive you of peaks and valleys in the music volume, of
course—it affects only the baseline level. You turn it on or off in Settings.

Equalization
Like any good music player these days, the iPhone offers an EQ function: a
long list of presets, each of which affects your music differently by boosting
or throttling back various frequencies. One might bring out the bass to goose
up your hip-hop tunes; another might emphasize the midrange for clearer
vocals; and so on. To turn the EQ on or off, or to choose a different preset.
On-the-Go Playlist

During the first few years of the iPod Age, you could create playlists only in
iTunes. You couldn’t create one when you were out and about—to kill time
standing in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, for example, or to whip
together a little music flow to impress a hot date.
Now you can.

Creating an On-the-Go Playlist. Open the iPod program (HomeÆiPod).
Tap Playlists. At the top of the Playlists screen, tap On-The-Go.
Now a master list of all your songs appears. Each time you see one worth
adding to your On-the-Go Playlist, tap its name (or the + button). You can
also tap one of the icons at the bottom, like Playlists, Artists, or Videos, to
fi nd the stuff you want.

When you’re finished, tap Done. Your playlist is ready to play, just as you
would any playlist.
on real iPods, you can create many on-the-go playlists. The iPhone can keep only
one at a time. (it does get copied over to iTunes, though, with each sync.)

Editing the On-the-Go Playlist. On the Playlists screen, tap On-The-Go;
on the next screen, tap Edit. Here you’re offered a Clear Playlist command,
which (after a confirmation request) empties the list completely.
You also see the universal iPhone Delete symbol (–). Tap it, and then tap
the Delete confi rmation button on the right side, to remove a song from
the playlist.
To add more songs to the list, tap the ± button at the top left. You’re
now shown the list of songs in the current playlist; you can tap Playlists to
switch to a diff erent playlist, or tap one of the other buttons at the bottom
of the screen, like Artists or Songs, to view your music collection in
those list formats. Each time you see a song worth adding, tap it.
Finally, note the “grip strip” at the right edge of the screen (◊). With your
fi nger, drag these handles up or down to rearrange the songs in your
OTG playlist. When your editing job is complete, tap Done.

Zoom/Unzoom - iphone

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The iPhone’s screen is bright, vibrant, and stunningly sharp. (It’s got 320 by
480 pixels, crammed so tightly that there are 160 of them per inch, which is
nearly twice the resolution of a computer screen.)
It’s not, however, the right shape for videos.
Standard TV shows are squarish, not rectangular. So when you watch TV
shows, you get black letterbox columns on either side of the picture.

Some people are fine with that. After all, HDTV sets have the same problem;
people are used to it. At least when letterbox bars are onscreen, you know
you’re seeing the complete composition of the scene the director intended.
Other people can’t stand letterbox bars. You’re already watching on a pretty
small screen; why sacrifice some of that precious area to black bars?
Fortunately, the iPhone gives you a choice. If you double-tap the video as it
plays, you zoom in, magnifying the image so it fills the entire screen. Or, if the
playback controls are visible, you can also tap [ or ].

Truth is, part of the image is now off the screen; now you’re not seeing the
entire composition as originally created. You lose the top and bottom of TV
scenes, or the left and right edges of movie scenes.

Fortunately, if this effect winds up chopping off something important—some
text on the screen, for example—restoring the original letterbox view is just
another double-tap away.

Controlling Playback (Video) - iphone

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Having a bunch of sliders and buttons on the screen doesn’t inconvenience
you much when you’re listening to music. The action is in your ears, not on
the screen.
But when you’re playing video, anything else on the screen is distracting, so
Apple hides the video playback controls. Tap the screen once to make them
appear, and again to make them disappear.
Here’s what they do:
Done. Tap this blue button, in the top-left corner, to stop playback and
return to the master list of videos.
Scroll slider. This progress indicator (top of the screen) is exactly like
the one you see when you’re playing music. You see the elapsed time,
remaining time, and a little white round handle that you can drag to
jump forward or back in the video.

Zoom/Unzoom. In the top-right corner, a little [ or ] button
appears. Tap it to adjust the zoom level of the video, as described on the
facing page.

Play/Pause (÷/¿). These buttons (and the earbud clicker) do the same
thing to video as they do to music: alternate between playing and
pausing.

Previous, Next («, »). Hold down your finger to rewind or fast-forward
the video. The longer you hold, the faster the zipping. (When you
fast-forward, you even get to hear the sped-up audio, at least for the first
few seconds.)
If you’re watching a movie from the iTunes Music Store, you may be
surprised to discover that it comes with predefi ned chapter markers, just
like a DVD. Internally, it’s divided up into scenes. You can tap the « or
» button to skip to the previous or next chapter marker—a great way
to navigate a long movie quickly.
if you’re wearing the earbuds, you can pinch the clicker twice to skip to the next
chapter.
Volume. You can drag the round, white handle of this scroll bar (bottom
of the screen) to adjust the volume—or you can use the volume keys on
the left side of the phone.
When you reach the end of a video, the iPhone asks if you want to keep it or
delete it. It’s a thoughtful gesture, considering that videos occupy an enormous
chunk of the iPhone’s memory. (Deleting it from the iPhone doesn’t
delete it from your computer.)

Multi(music)tasking - iphone

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Once you’re playing music, it keeps right on playing, even if you press the
Home button and move on to do some other work on the iPhone. After all,
the only thing more pleasurable than surfing the Web is surfing it to a Beach
Boys soundtrack.
A tiny ÷ icon at the top of the screen reminds you that music is still playing.
That’s handy if the earbuds are plugged in but you’re not wearing them.
Or, if you’ve got something else to do—like jogging, driving, or performing
surgery—tap the Sleep/Wake switch to turn off the screen. The music will
keep playing, but you’ll save battery power.
Music is playing
even with the screen off, you can still adjust the music volume (use the keys on
the left side of the phone), pause the music (pinch the earbud clicker once), or
advance to the next song (pinch it twice).

If a phone call comes in, the music fades, and you hear your chosen ringtone—
through your earbuds, if you’re wearing them. Squeeze the clicker on
the earbud cord, or tap the Sleep/Wake switch, to answer the call. When the
call ends, the music fades back in, right where it had stopped.

Controlling Playback (Music) - iphone

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Once you’re on the Now Playing screen, a few controls await your fingertip—
some obvious and some not so obvious.

Play/Pause (÷/¿) button. The Pause button looks like this ¿ when the
music is playing. If you do pause the music, the button turns into the Play
button (÷).
if you’re wearing the earbuds, pinching the microphone clicker serves the same
purpose: it’s a Play/Pause control.
incidentally, when you plug in headphones, the iPhone’s built-in speaker turns off,
but when you unplug the headphones, your music pauses instead of switching
abruptly back to the speaker. You may have to unlock the iPhone and navigate to
the iPod program to resume playback.
Previous, Next («, »). These buttons work exactly as they do on an
iPod. That is, tap « to skip to the beginning of this song (or, if you’re
already at the beginning, to the previous song). Tap » to skip to the
next song.
if you’re wearing the earbuds, you can pinch the clicker twice to skip to the next
song.
If you hold down one of these buttons instead of tapping, you rewind or
fast-forward. It’s rather cool, actually—you get to hear the music speeding
by as you keep your fi nger down, without turning the singer into a
chipmunk. The rewinding or fast-forwarding accelerates if you keep holding
down the button.

Volume. You can drag the round, white handle of this scroll bar (bottom
of the screen) to adjust the volume—or you can use the volume keys on
the left side of the phone.
Of course, you probably didn’t need a handsome full-color book to tell you
what those basic playback controls are for. But there’s also a trio of secret controls
that don’t appear until you tap anywhere on an empty part of the screen
(for example, on the album cover):

Loop button. If you really love a certain album or playlist, you can command
the iPhone to play it over and over again, beginning to end. Just
tap the Loop button (¶) so it turns blue (‡).
Tap the Loop button a second time to endlessly loop just this song.
a tiny clock icon appears on the blue loop graphic, like this &, to let you know
that you’ve entered this mode. Tap a third time to turn off looping.
Scroll slider. This slider (top of the screen) reveals three useful statistics:
how much of the song you’ve heard, in minutes:seconds format (at the
left end), how much time remains (at the right end), and which slot this
song occupies in the current playlist or album.
To operate the slider, drag the tiny round handle with your fi nger. (Just
tapping directly on the spot you want to hear doesn’t work.)

Shuffle button. Ordinarily, the iPhone plays the songs in an album
sequentially, from beginning to end. But if you love surprises, tap the
fl button so it turns blue. Now you’ll hear the songs on the album in
random order.

To hide the slider, Loop, and Shuffl e buttons, tap an empty part of the
screen once again.
By the way, there’s nothing to stop you from turning on both Shuffl e and
Loop, meaning that you’ll hear the songs on the album played endlessly,
but never in the same order twice.
Did you ever notice the tiny grille (pinholes) at the bottom inside of the iPhone’s
charging cradle? They’re there to let the sound out. That’s right: you can use the
iPhone as a desktop music machine, even while it’s charging. The holes actually
help matters, because the sound bounces off the desktop instead of shooting out
into space away from you. (You can’t listen while you sync, alas.)

The Now Playing Screen (Music) - iphone

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Whenever a song is playing, the Now Playing screen appears, filled with information
and controls for your playback pleasure.
For example:
Return arrow. At the top-left corner of the screen, the fat, left-pointing
arrow means, “Return to the list whence this song came.” It takes you back
to the list of songs in this album, playlist, or whatever.
Song info. Center top: the artist name, track name, and album name.
Nothing to tap here, folks. Move along.
Album list. At the top-right corner, you see a three-line icon that seems
to say, “list.” Tap it to view a list of all songs on this song’s album.

You can double-tap the big album art picture to open the track list, too. it’s a
bigger target.

This screen off ers three enjoyable activities. You can jump directly to
another cut by tapping its name. You can check out the durations of the
songs in this album.
And you can rate a song, ranking it from one to fi ve stars, by tapping its
name and then tapping one of the fi ve dots at the top of the screen. If
you tap dot number 3, for example, then the fi rst three dots all turn into
stars. You’ve just given that song three stars. When you next sync your
iPhone with your computer, the ratings you’ve applied magically show
up on the same songs in iTunes.
To return to the Now Playing screen, tap the upper-right icon once again.
(Once you tap, that icon looks like the album cover.) Or, for a bigger target,
double-tap any blank part of the screen.
Album art. Most of the screen is filled with a bright, colorful shot of
the original CD’s album art. (If none is available—if you’re listening to a
song you wrote, for example—you see a big gray generic musical-note
picture.)

Cover Flow - iphone

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Anytime you’re using the iPhone’s iPod personality, whether you’re playing
music or just flipping through your lists, you can rotate the iPhone 90 degrees
in either direction—so it’s in landscape orientation—to turn on Cover Flow.
Nothing gets oohs and ahhhs from the admiring crowd like Cover Flow.

In Cover Flow, the screen goes dark for a moment—and then it reappears,
showing two-inch-tall album covers, floating on a black background. Push or
flick with your fingers to make them fly and flip over in 3-D space, as though
they’re CDs in a record-store rack.
If you tap one (or tap the little * button in the lower-right corner), the album
flips around so you can see the “back” of it, containing a list of songs from
that album. Tap a song to start playing it; tap the ¿ in the lower-left corner to
pause. Tap the back (or the * button) again to flip the album cover back to
the front and continue browsing.
To turn off Cover Flow, rotate the iPhone upright again.

So what, exactly, is Cover Flow for? You could argue that it’s a unique way to
browse your collection, to seek inspiration in your collection without having
to stare at scrolling lists of text.
But you could also argue that it’s just Apple’s engineers showing off.

Other Lists - iphone

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Those four lists—Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos—are only suggestions. On a
real iPod, of course, you can slice and dice your music collection in all kinds of
other listy ways: by Album, Genre, Composer, and so on.
You can do that on the iPhone, too; there just isn’t room across the bottom
row to hold more than four list icons at a time.

To view some of the most useful secondary lists, tap the fifth and final icon,
labeled More. The More screen appears, listing a bunch of other ways to view
your collection:
Albums. That’s right, it’s a list of all the CDs from which your music collection
is derived, complete with miniature pictures of the album art. Tap
an album’s name to see a list of songs that came from it; tap a song to
start playing it.

Audiobooks. One of the great pricey joys of life is listening to digital
“books on tape” that you’ve bought from Audible.com .
They show up in this list. (Audio books you’ve ripped from CDs don’t
show up here—only ones you’ve downloaded from Audible.)

in a hurry? You can speed up the playback without making the narrator sound like
a chipmunk—or slow the narrator down if he’s talking too fast.
Compilations.

A compilation is one of those albums that’s been put
together from many different performers. You know: “Zither Hits of Music and video
the 1600s,” “Kazoo Classics,” and so on. You’re supposed to turn on the
Compilation checkbox manually, in iTunes, to identify songs that belong
together in this way. Once you’ve done that, all songs that belong to
compilations you’ve created show up in this list.
Composers. Here’s your whole music collection sorted by composer—a
crumb that the iPod/iPhone creators have thrown to classical-music fans.
Genres. Tap this item to sort your collection by musical genre (that is,
style): Pop, Rock, World, Podcast, Gospel, or whatever.
Podcasts. Here are all your podcasts , listed by creator. A blue
dot indicates that you haven’t yet listened to some of the podcasts by
a certain podcaster. Similarly, if you tap a podcast’s name to drill down,
you’ll see the individual episodes, once again marked by blue “you
haven’t heard me yet” dots.

Customizing List Land - iphone

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Now you know how to sort your collection by every conceivable criterion.
But what if you’re a huge podcast nut? Are you really expected to open up
the More screen (shown on the facing page) every time you want to see your
list of podcasts? Or what if you frequently want access to your audiobooks or
composer list?
Fortunately, you can add the icons of these lists to the bottom of the main
iPod screen, where the four starter categories now appear (Playlists, Artists,
Songs, Videos). That is, you can replace or rearrange the icons that show up
here, so that the lists you use most frequently are easier to open.
To renovate the four starter icons, tap the More button and then tap the Edit
button (upper-left corner). You arrive at the Configure screen.
Here’s the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists: Albums, Podcasts,
Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and
Videos.
To replace one of the four starter icons at the bottom, use a finger to drag an
icon from the top half of the screen downward, directly onto the existing icon
you want to replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag.
When you release your finger, you’ll see that the new icon has replaced the
old one. Tap Done in the upper-right corner.

Oh, and while you’re on the Edit screen: You can also take this opportunity
to rearrange the first four icons at the bottom. Drag them around with your
finger. It’s fun for the whole family.

List Land - iphone

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The iPod program begins with lists—lots of lists. The first four icons at the bottom
of the screen represent your starter lists, as follows:
Playlists. A playlist is a group of songs that you’ve placed together, in
a sequence that makes sense to you. One might consist of party tunes;
another might hold romantic dinnertime music; a third might be drumheavy
workout cuts.
You create playlists in the iTunes software, as described on page 202. After
you sync the iPhone with your computer, those playlists appear here.
Scroll the list by dragging your fi nger or by fl icking. To see what songs
or videos are in a playlist, tap its name. (The > symbol in an iPod menu
always means, “Tap to see what’s in this list.”)
Here’s a universal iPhone convention: anywhere you’re asked to drill down from
one list to another—from a playlist to the songs inside, for example—you can
backtrack by tapping the blue button at the upper-left corner of the screen. its
name changes to tell you what screen you came from (Playlists, for example).

To start playing a song or video once you see it in the playlist list, tap it.

Artists. This list identifies all of the bands, orchestras, or singers in your
collection. Even if you have only one song from a certain performer, it
shows up here.
Once again, you drill down to the list of individual songs or videos by
tapping an artist’s name. At that point, tap any song or video to begin
playing it.
Songs. Here’s an alphabetical list of every song on your iPhone. Scroll or
flick through it, or use the index at the right side of the screen to jump
to a letter of the alphabet. (It works exactly as described on page 31.) Tap
anything to begin playing it.

Videos. Tap this icon for one-stop browsing of all the video material on
your phone, organized by category: Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, and
Podcasts—video podcasts, that is. (You see only one listing for each podcaster,
along with the number of episodes you’ve got). A handy thumbnail
photo next to each video gives you a hint as to what’s in it, and you
also see the total playing time of each one.
You can probably guess, at this point, how you start one playing: by tapping
its name. But don’t forget to rotate the iPhone 90 degrees; all videos
play in landscape orientation (the wide way).

at the bottom of any of these lists, you’ll see the total number of items in that list:
“76 Songs,” for example. at the top of the screen, you may see the Now Playing
button, which opens up the playback screen of whatever’s playing.

Music and Video - iphone

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Of the iPhone’s Big Three talents—phone, internet, and iPod—its
iPoddishness may be the most successful. This function, after all,
is the only one that doesn’t require the participation of aT&T and
its network. it works even on planes and in subways. and it’s the iPhone
function that gets the most impressive battery life (almost 24 hours of
music playback).
This chapter assumes that you’ve already loaded some music or video onto
your iPhone, as described in Chapter 11.
To enter iPod Land, press the Home button, and then tap the orange iPod
icon at the lower-right corner of the screen.

Car Kits - iphone

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The iPhone works beautifully with Bluetooth car kits, too. The pairing procedure
generally goes exactly as described above: You make the car discoverable,
enter the passcode on the iPhone, and then make the connection.
Once you’re paired up, you can answer an incoming call by pressing a button
on your steering wheel, for example. You make calls either from the iPhone or,
in some cars, by dialing the number on the car’s own touch screen.
Of course, studies show that it’s the act of driving while conversing that causes
accidents—not actually holding the phone. So the hands-free system is less
for safety than for convenience and compliance with state laws.

Apple’s Bluetooth Earpiece

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Apple’s own Bluetooth earpiece ($130), sold just for the iPhone,
is one of the tiniest and simplest earpieces on the market. It
has several advantages over other companies’ earpieces. For
example, it comes with a charging cradle that looks and works
just like the iPhone’s, but has a hole for charging the earpiece
simultaneously.
Better yet, this earpiece pairs itself with your phone automatically.
You don’t have to go through any of that multi-step rigamarole.
All you have to do is put the iPhone and the headset
into the charging cradle simultaneously—and the deed is
done.
There’s only one button on the earpiece. Press it to connect it
to the iPhone. When the iPhone is connected, you’ll see a blue
or white b icon appear at the top of the iPhone’s screen (depending on the
background color of the program you’re using).
When Bluetooth is turned on but the earpiece isn’t, or when the earpiece isn’t
nearby, the b icon appears in gray.
To use this earpiece, pop it into your ear. To make a call or adjust the volume,
you use the phone itself as usual. The only difference is that you hear the
audio in your ear. The microphone is the little stub that points toward your
chin (the iPhone’s own mike is turned off ).
You answer a call by pressing the earpiece button; you hang up by pressing
it again.

Pairing with a Bluetooth Earpiece - iphone

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So far, Bluetooth hands-free systems have been embraced primarily by the
world’s geeks for one simple reason: It’s way too complicated to pair the earpiece
(or car) with the phone.
So what’s pairing? That’s the system of “marrying” a phone to a Bluetooth earpiece,
so that each works only with the other. If you didn’t do this pairing,
then some other guy passing on the sidewalk might hear your conversation
through his earpiece. And you probably wouldn’t like that.
The pairing process is different for every cellphone and every Bluetooth earpiece.
Usually it involves a sequence like this:
➊ On the earpiece, turn on Bluetooth. Make the earpiece discoverable.
Discoverable just means that your phone can “see” it. You’ll have to
consult the earpiece’s instructions to learn how to do so.
➋ On the iPhone, tap HomeÆSettingsÆGeneralÆBluetooth. Turn
Bluetooth to On. The iPhone immediately begins searching for nearby Bluetooth equipment. If all goes well, you’ll see the name of your earpiece
show up on the screen.

➌ Tap the earpiece’s name. Type in the passcode. The passcode is a
number, usually four or six digits, that must be typed into the phone
within about a minute. You have to enter this only once, during the initial
pairing process. The idea is to prevent some evildoer sitting nearby in
the airport waiting lounge, for example, to secretly pair his earpiece with
your iPhone.
The user manual for your earpiece should tell you what the passcode is.
When you’re using a Bluetooth earpiece, you dial using the iPhone itself. You
generally use the iPhone’s own volume controls, too. You generally press a
button on the earpiece itself to answer an incoming call, to swap Call Waiting
calls, and to end a call.
If you’re having any problems making a particular earpiece work, Google it.
Type “iPhone Motorola H800 earpiece,” for example. Chances are good that
you’ll find a writeup by somebody who’s worked through the setup and made
it work.

Bluetooth Earpieces and Car Kits - iphone

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The iPhone has more antennas than an ant colony: one for the cellular network,
one for Wi-Fi hot spots, and a third for Bluetooth.
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless cable elimination technology. It’s designed
to untether you from equipment that would ordinarily require a cord.
Bluetooth crops up in computers (print from a laptop to a Bluetooth printer),
in game consoles (like Sony’s wireless PlayStation controller), and above all, in
cellphones.
There are all kinds of things Bluetooth can do in cellphones, like transmitting
cameraphone photos to computers, wirelessly syncing your address
book from a computer, or letting the phone in your pocket serve as a wireless
Internet antenna for your laptop. But the iPhone can do only one Bluetooth
thing: hands-free calling.
To be precise, it works with those tiny wireless Bluetooth earpieces, of the
sort you see clipped to tech-savvy people’s ears in public, as well as with cars
with built-in Bluetooth phone systems. If your car has one of these “car kits”
(Acura, Prius, and many other models include them), you hear the other person’s
voice through your stereo speakers, and there’s a microphone built into
your steering wheel or rear-view mirror. You keep your hands on the wheel
the whole time.

Call Forwarding - iphone

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Here’s a pretty cool feature you may not even have known you had. It lets you
route all calls made to your iPhone number to a different number. How is this
useful? Let us count the ways:
When you’re home. You can have your cellphone’s calls ring your home
number, so you can use any extension in the house, and so you don’t
miss any calls while the iPhone is turned off or charging.
When you send your iPhone to Apple for battery replacement , you can forward the calls you would have missed to your home or
work phone number.
When you’re overseas, you can forward the number to one of the Webbased
services that answers your voicemail and sends it to you as an
email attachment (like GrandCentral.com or CallWave.com).
When you’re going to be in a place with little or no AT&T cell coverage
(Alaska, say), you can have your calls forwarded to your hotel or a friend’s
cellphone.

You have to turn on Call Forwarding while you’re still in an area with AT&T coverage.
Start at the Home screen.
Tap SettingsÆ PhoneÆCall Forwarding,
turn Call Forwarding
on, and then tap in the new
phone number. That’s all there
is to it—your iPhone will no longer
ring.
At least not until you turn the
same switch off again.

Caller ID - iphone

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Caller ID is another classic cellphone feature. It’s the one that displays the
phone number of the incoming call (and sometimes the name of the caller).

The only thing worth noting about the iPhone’s own implementation of Caller
ID is that you can prevent your number from appearing when you call other
people’s phones.
From the Home screen, tap Settings Phone Show MyCaller ID, and then
tap the On/Off switch.

Call Waiting - iphone

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Call Waiting has been around for years. With a call waiting feature, when you’re
on one phone call, you hear a beep in your ear indicating someone else is calling
in. You can tap the Flash key on your phone—if you know which one it
is—to answer the second call while you put the first one on hold.
Some people don’t use Call Waiting because it’s rude to both callers. Others
don’t use it because they have no idea what the Flash key is.
On the iPhone, when a second call comes in, the phone rings (and/or vibrates)
as usual, and the screen displays the name or number of the caller, just as it
always does. Buttons on the screen offer you three choices:

Ignore. The incoming call goes straight to voicemail. Your first caller has
no idea that anything’s happened.
Hold Call + Answer. This button gives you the traditional Call Waiting
effect. You say, “Can you hold on a sec? I’ve got another call” to the first
caller. The iPhone puts her on hold, and you connect to the second caller.
At this point, you can jump back and forth between the two calls, or you
can merge them into a conference call, just as described on page 36.
End Call + Answer. Tapping this button hangs up on the first call and
takes the second one.
If Call Waiting seems a bit disruptive all the way around, you can turn it off;
When Call Waiting is turned off, incoming calls go straight to
voicemail when you’re on the phone.

Chat Programs - iphone

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No, your eyes do not deceive you. That heading really says “Chat Programs.”
Fancy Phone Tricks
Of course, the iPhone itself doesn’t have any chat programs, like AIM (AOL
Instant Messenger), Yahoo Messenger, or MSN Messenger. But that doesn’t
mean you have to remain chatless.
Thanks to Web sites like Meebo.com, Jivetalk.com, Beejive.com, and FlashIM.
com, all of which are accessible from the Web browser on your iPhone, you
can chat away with your buddies just as though you’re at home on a computer.
(Well, on a computer with a touchscreen keyboard two inches wide.)

Free Text Messaging - iphone

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If you think you can keep yourself under the 200-message-per-month limit of
most iPhone calling plans (remember, that’s sent and received), great! You’re
all set.
Then again, how are you supposed to know how many text messages you’ve sent
and received so far this month? Your iPhone sure doesn’t keep track.
The only way find out is to sign in to www.wireless.att.com and click My account.
(The first time you do, you’ll have to register by supplying your email address and a
Web password.) The Web site offers detailed information about how many minutes
you’ve used so far this month—and how many text messages. Might be worth
bookmarking that link in your iPhone’s browser.
But if you risk going over that limit, you’ll be glad to know there’s a way to
send all your outgoing text messages to be free.
Enter Teleflip, a free service that converts email into text messages. Teleflip
requires no signup, fee, contract, or personal information whatsoever.
Until recently, the chief use for this service was firing off text messages from
your computer to somebody’s cellphone.
But the dawn of the iPhone opens up a whole new world for Teleflip. It lets
you send an email (which is free with your iPhone plan) that gets received as
a text message on the other end. You pay nothing.

To make this happen, create a new email address for each person you might
like to text. The email address will look like 2125551212@teleflip.com (of course,
substitute the real phone number for 2125551212). That’s it! Any messages
you send to that address are free to send, because they’re email—but they
arrive as text messages!

Sending a New Message - iphone

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If you want to text somebody with whom you’ve texted before, the quickest
way, as noted above, is simply to resume one of the “conversations” that are
already listed in the Text Messages list.
Options to fire off a text message are lurking all over the iPhone. A few
examples:

In the Contacts, Recents, or Favorites lists. Tap a person’s name in
Contacts, or O next to a listing in Recents or Favorites, to open the Info
screen; tap Text Message. In other words, sending a text message to anyone
whose cellphone number lives in your iPhone is only two taps away.

In the Text program. Press the HomeÆText icon. The iPhone opens the
complete list of messages that you’ve received. Tap the √ button at the
top-right corner of the screen to open a new text message window, with
the keyboard ready to go.

Fancy Phone Tricks
Address it by tapping the + button, which opens your Contacts list. Tap
the person you want to text.

Your entire Contacts list appears here, even ones with no cellphone numbers. But you can’t text somebody who doesn’t have a cellphone number.

In any case, the text message composition screen appears. You’re ready to
type and send!

Links that people send you in text messages actually work. For example, if someone sends you a Web address, tap it with your finger to open it in Safari. if someone sends a street address, tap it to open it in google Maps. and if someone sends a phone number, tap it to dial.

The Text List - iphone

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What’s cool is that the iPhone retains all of these exchanges. You can review
them or resume them at any time by tapping Text on the Home screen. A list
of text message conversations appears; a blue dot indicates conversations
that contain new messages.

The truth is, these listings represent people, not conversations. For example, if
you had a text message exchange with Chris last week, a quick way to send a
new text message (on a totally different subject) to Chris is to open that “conversation”
and simply send a “reply.” The iPhone saves you the administrative
work of creating a new message, choosing a recipient, and so on.

If having these old exchanges hanging around presents a security (or marital)
risk, you can delete it in either of two ways:
From the Text Messages list: The long way: Tap Edit; tap the – button;
finally, tap Delete to confirm.

The short way: Swipe away the conversation. Instead of tapping Edit, just
swipe your fi nger horizontally across the conversation’s name (either direction).
That makes the Delete confi rmation button appear immediately.

From within a conversation’s speech-balloons screen: Tap Clear; tap
Clear Conversation to confirm.

SMS Text Messages - iphone

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“Texting,” as the young whippersnappers call it, was huge in Asia and Europe
before it began catching on in the United States. These days, however, it’s
increasingly popular, especially among teenagers and twentysomethings.
SMS stands for Short Messaging Service. An SMS text message is a very short
note (under 160 characters—a sentence or two) that you shoot from one cellphone
to another. What’s so great about it?

Like a phone call, it’s immediate. You get the message off your chest right
now.
As with email, the recipient doesn’t have to answer immediately. He can
reply at his leisure; the message waits for him even when his phone is
turned off.

Unlike a phone call, it’s nondisruptive. You can send someone a text
message without worrying that he’s in a movie, in class, in a meeting, or
anywhere else where talking and holding a phone up to the head would
be frowned upon. (And the other person can answer nondisruptively,
too, by sending a text message back.)

You have a written record of the exchange. There’s no mistaking what
the person meant. (Well, at least not because of voice quality. Whether
or not you can understand the texting shorthand culture that’s evolved
from people using no-keyboard cellphones to type English words—“C U
2morrO,” and so on—is another matter entirely.)

All AT&T iPhone accounts include 200 free text messages per month (although
you can upgrade your account—meaning pay more—if you send more than
that). Keep in mind that you use up one of those 200 each time you send or
receive a message, so they go quickly.

Dialing in for Messages - iphone

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As gross and pre-iPhonish though it may sound, you can also dial in for your
messages from another phone. (Hey, it could happen.)
To do that, dial your iPhone’s number. Wait for the voicemail system to
answer.
As your own voicemail greeting plays, dial *, your voicemail password, and
then #. You’ll hear the Uptight AT&T Lady announce the first “skipped” message
(actually the first unplayed message), and then she’ll start playing them
for you.
After you hear each message, she’ll offer you the following options (but you
don’t have to wait for her to announce them):
To delete the message, press 7.
To save it, press 9.
To replay it, press 4.
To hear the date, time, and number the message came from, press 5.
(You don’t hear the lady give you these last two options until you press
“zero for more options”—but they work any time you press them.)

if this whole visual voicemail thing freaks you out, you can also dial in for messages
the old-fashioned way, right from the iPhone. open the Keypad and hold
down the 1 key, just as though it’s a speed-dial key on any normal phone.
after a moment, the phone connects to aT&T; you’re asked for your password, and
then the messages begin to play back, just as described above.

Recents List - iphone

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Like any self-respecting cellphone, the iPhone maintains a list of everybody
you’ve called or who’s called you recently. The idea, of course, is to provide you
with a quick way to call someone you’ve been talking to lately.

To see the list, tap Recents at the bottom of the Phone application. You see a
list of the last 75 calls that you’ve received or placed from your iPhone, along
with each person’s name or number (depending on whether that name is in
Contacts or not) and the date of the call.

Calls that you missed (or sent to voicemail) appear in red type. If you tap
the Missed button at the top of the screen, you see only your missed
calls. All of this color-coding and separate listings is designed to make it
easy for you to return calls that you missed, or to try again to reach someone
who didn’t answer when you called.
To call someone back—regardless of whether you answered or dialed
the call—tap that name or number in the list.
Tap the O button next to any call to open the Call Details screen. At
the top of the screen, you can see whether this was an Outgoing Call,
Incoming Call, or Missed Call.
What else you see here depends on whether or not the other person is in
your Contacts list.

If so, the Call Details screen displays the person’s whole information card.
For outgoing calls, blue type indicates which of the person’s numbers
you dialed. A star denotes a phone number that’s also in your Favorites
list.
If the call isn’t from someone in your Contacts, you get to see a handy
notation at the top of the Call Details screen: the city and state where the
calling phone is registered.

To save you scrolling, the Recents list thoughtfully combines consecutive
calls to or from the same person. If some obsessive ex-lover has been
calling you every ten minutes for four hours, you’ll see “Chris Meyerson
(24)” in the Recents list. (Tap the O button to see the exact times of the
calls.)
To erase the entire list, thus ruling out the chance that a coworker or
significant other might discover your illicit activities, tap Clear at the top
of the screen. You’ll be asked to confirm your decision. (There’s no way to
delete individual items in this list.)

Receiving a Text Message - iphone

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When someone sends you an SMS, the iPhone plays a quick marimba riff and
displays the name or number of the sender and the message, in a translucent

message rectangle. If you’re using the iPhone at the time, you can tap Ignore
(to keep doing what you’re doing) or View (to open the message, as shown
below).
Otherwise, if the iPhone was asleep, it wakes up and displays the message
right on its Unlock screen. You have to unlock the phone and then open the
Text program manually. Tap the very first icon in the upper-left corner of the
Home screen.
The Text icon on the Home screen bears a little circled number “badge,” letting you
know how many new text messages are waiting for you.

Either way, the look of the Text program might surprise you. It resembles
iChat, Apple’s chat program for Macintosh, in which incoming text messages
and your replies are displayed as though they’re cartoon speech balloons.
To respond to the message, tap in the text box at the bottom of the screen. The
iPhone keyboard appears. Type away (page 12), and then tap Send. Assuming
your phone has cellular coverage, the message gets sent off immediately.
And if your buddy replies, then the balloon-chat continues, scrolling up the
screen.

Using Visual Voicemail - iphone

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In the voicemail list, a blue dot Δ indicates a message that you haven’t yet
played.
You can work through your messages even when you’re out of aT&T cellular range—on a plane, for example—because the recordings are stored on the iPhone itself.

There are only two tricky things to learn about Visual Voicemail:
Tap a message’s name twice, not once, to play it. That’s a deviation
from the usual iPhone Way, where just one tap does the trick. In Visual
Voicemail, tapping a message just selects it and activates the Call Back
and Delete buttons at the bottom of the screen. You have to tap twice to
start playback.

Turn on Speaker Phone first. As the name Visual Voicemail suggests,
you’re looking at your voicemail list—which means you’re not holding
the phone up to your head. The first time people try using Visual
Voicemail, therefore, they generally hear nothing!

That’s a good argument for hitting the Speaker button before tapping
messages that you want to play back. That way, you can hear the playback
and continue looking over the list. (Of course, if privacy is an issue,
you can also double-tap a message and then quickly whip the phone up
to your ear.)

if you’re listening through the earbuds or a Bluetooth earpiece or car kit, of course, you hear the message playing back through that. if you really want to listen through the iPhone’s speaker instead, tap audio, then Speaker Phone. (You switch back the same way.)

Everything else about Visual Voicemail is straightforward. The buttons do
exactly what they say:

Delete. The Voicemail list scrolls with a flick of your finger, but you still
might want to keep the list manageable by deleting old messages. To
do that, tap a message and then tap Delete. The message disappears
instantly. (You’re not asked to confirm.)

The iPhone hangs on to old messages for 30 days—even ones you’ve deleted. To listen to deleted messages that are still on the phone, scroll to the bottom of the list and tap Deleted Messages. on the Deleted screen, you can undelete a message that you actually don’t want to lose yet (that is, move it back to the voicemail screen), or tap Clear all to erase these messages for good.

Call Back. Tap a message and then tap Call Back to return the call. Very
cool—you never even encounter the person’s phone number.

Rewind, Fast Forward. Drag the little white ball in the scroll bar
(beneath the list) to skip backward or forward in the message. It’s a great
way to replay something you didn’t catch the first time.

Greeting. Tap this button (upper-left corner) to record your voicemail
greeting.

Call Details. Tap the O button to open the Info screen for the message
that was left for you. Here you’ll find out the date and time of the
message.

Fancy Phone Tricks - iphone

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Once you’ve savored the exhilaration of making phone calls on
the iPhone, you’re ready to graduate to some of its fancier tricks:
voicemail, sending text messages, using aT&T features like Caller
iD and Call Forwarding, and using a Bluetooth headset or car kit.

Visual Voicemail
Without a doubt, Visual Voicemail is one of the iPhone’s big selling points.
On the iPhone, you don’t dial in to check for answering-machine messages
people have left for you. You don’t enter a password. You don’t sit through
some Ambien-addled recorded lady saying, “You have...17...messages. To hear
your messages, press 1. When you have finished, you may hang up...”

Instead, whenever somebody leaves you a message, the phone wakes up,
and a message on the screen lets you know who the message is from. You
also hear a sound, unless you’ve turned that option off (page 245) or turned
on the Silence switch (page 12).
That’s your cue to tap HomeÆPhoneÆVoicemail. There, you see all your messages
in a tidy chronological list. (The list shows the callers’ names if they’re in
your Contacts list, or their numbers otherwise.) You can listen to them in any
order—you’re not forced to listen to your three long-winded friends before discovering
that there’s an urgent message from your boss. It’s a game-changer.
Setup
To access your voicemail, tap Phone on the Home screen, and then tap
Voicemail on the Phone screen.
The very first time you visit this screen, the iPhone prompts you to make up a
numeric password for your voicemail account—don’t worry, you’ll never have
to enter it again—and to record a “Leave me a message” greeting.
You have two options for the outgoing greeting:
Default. If you’re microphone-shy, or if you’re someone famous and you
don’t want stalkers and fans calling just to hear your famous voice, use

this option. It’s a prerecorded, somewhat uptight female voice that says,
“Your call has been forward to an automatic voice message system. 212-
661-7837 is not available.” Beep!
Custom. This option lets you record your own voice saying, for example,
“You’ve reached my iPhone. You may begin drooling at the tone.” Tap
Record, hold the iPhone to your head, say your line, and then tap Stop.
Check how it sounds by tapping Play.
Then just wait for your fans to start leaving you messages!

Overseas Calling - iphone

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The iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone, which is a fancy way of saying it also
works in any of the 200 countries of the world (including all of Europe) that
have GSM phone networks. Cool!
But AT&T’s international roaming charges will cost you anywhere from 60
cents to $5 per minute. Not so cool!

If you, a person in Oprah’s tax bracket, are fine with that, then all you have to
do is remember to call AT&T before you travel. Ask that they turn on the international
roaming feature. (They can do that remotely. It’s a security step.)
Then off you go. Now you can dial local numbers in the countries you visit,
and receive calls from the U.S. from people who dialed your regular number,
with the greatest of ease. You can even specify which overseas cell carrier you
want to carry your calls, since there may be more than one that’s made roaming
agreements with AT&T.
On specifying the overseas carrier. And see www.wireless.
att.com/learn/international/long-distance for details on this roaming stuff.
If you’re not interested in paying those massive roaming charges, however,
you might want to consider simply renting a cellphone when you get to the
country you’re visiting.

The iPhone can even add the proper country codes automatically when you dial
u.S. numbers;

As for calling overseas numbers from the U.S., the scheme is simple:
North America (Canada, Puerto Rico, Caribbean). Dial 1, the area
code, and the number, just like any other long-distance call.
Other countries. Dial 011, the country code, the city or area code, and
the local number. How do you know the country code? Let Google be
your friend.

instead of dialing 011, you can just hold down the 0 key. That produces the +
symbol, which means 011 to the aT&T switchboard.

These calls, too, will cost you. If you do much overseas calling, therefore, consider
cutting the overseas-calling rates down to the bone by using Jajah.com.
It’s a Web service that cleverly uses the Internet to conduct your call—for 3
cents a minute to most countries, vs. 11 cents from the phone company.
You don’t have to sign up for anything. Just go to www.jajah.com on your
iPhone. Fill in your phone number and your overseas friend’s, and then click
Call.

In a moment, your phone will ring—and you’ll hear your friend saying hello.
Neither of you actually placed the call—Jajah called both of you and connected
the calls—so you save all kinds of money. Happy chatting!

The Keypad - iphone

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The last way to place a call is to tap the Keypad button at the bottom of the
screen. The standard iPhone dialing pad appears. It’s just like the number pad
on a normal cellphone, except that the “keys” are much bigger and you can’t
feel them.
To make a call, tap out the numbers—use the V key to backspace if you
make a mistake—and then tap the green Call button.
You can also use the keypad to enter a phone number into your Contacts list,
thanks to the little ø icon in the corner

Reordering Favorites - iphone

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Tapping that Edit button at the top of the Favorites list offers another handy
feature, too: It lets you drag names up and down, so the most important people
appear at the top of the list. Just use the right-side “grip strip” as a handle
to move entire names up or down the list.

Deleting from Favorites - iphone

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To delete somebody from your Favorites—the morning after a nasty political
argument over drinks, for example—tap Edit. Then follow the usual iPhone
deletion sequence: First tap the – button next to the unwanted entry, and
then tap Remove to confirm.

Favorites List - iphone

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Truth is, you may not wind up dialing much from Contacts. That’s the master
list, all right, but it’s too unwieldy when you just want to call your spouse,
your boss, or your lawyer. The iPhone doesn’t have any speed-dial buttons, of
course, but it does have Favorites—a short, easy-to-scan list of the people you
call most often.
You can add names to this list in either of two ways:
From the Contacts list. Tap a name to open the Info screen, where you’ll
find a button called Add to Favorites. (This button appears only if there is,
in fact, a phone number recorded for this person—as opposed to just an
email address, for example.) If there’s more than one phone number on
the Info screen, you’re asked to tap the one you want to add to Favorites.

each Favorite doesn’t represent a person; it represents a number. So if Chris has
both a home number and a cell number, add two items to the Favorites list. Blue
lettering in the list lets you know whether each number is mobile, home, or
whatever.

From the Recents list. Tap the O button next to any name or number
in the Recents list (see the facing page). If it’s somebody who’s already in
your Contacts list, you arrive at the Call Details screen, where one tap on
“Add to Favorites” does what it says.
If it’s somebody who’s not in Contacts yet, you’ll have to put them there
first. Tap Create New Contact, and then proceed as described on page
40. After you hit Save, you return to the Call Details screen so you can tap
Add to Favorites.

To help you remember that a certain phone number is already in your Favorites
list, a blue five-pointed star appears next to it in certain spots, like the Call Details
screen and the Contact info screen.

The Favorites list holds 20 numbers, max. Once you’ve added that many, the
Add to Favorites and ± buttons disappear.

Deleting Someone

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Truth is, you’ll probably add people to your address book far more often than
you’ll delete them. After all, you meet new people all the time—but you delete
people primarily when they die, move away, or break up with you.To zap someone, tap the name in the Contacts list and then tap Edit. Next,
scroll to the bottom of the screen, tap Delete Contact, and finally confirm by
tapping Delete Contact again.

Editing Someone - iphone

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To make corrections or changes, tap the person’s name in the Contacts list. In
the upper-right corner of the Info card, tap Edit.
You return to the screens described above, where you can make whatever
changes you like. To edit a phone number, for example, tap it and change
away. To delete a number (or any other info bit), tap the – button next to it,
and then tap Delete to confirm.

Adding a Contact on the Fly - iphone

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There’s actually another way to add someone to your Contacts list—a faster,
on-the-fly method that’s more typical of cellphones. Start by bringing the
phone number up on the screen:
Tap Home, then Phone, then Keypad. Dial the number, and then tap the
ø button.
You can also add a number that’s in your Recents (recent calls) list, storing
it in Contacts for future use. Tap the O button next to the name.
In both cases, finish up by tapping Create New Contact (to enter this person’s
name for the first time) or Add to Existing Contact (to add a new phone number
to someone’s existing card that’s already in your list). Off you go to the
Contacts editing screen

Editing the Contacts List - iphone

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Remember that there are four ways to dial: Favorites, Recents, Contacts, and
Keypad.
The Contacts list isn’t the first icon in the row at the bottom of the Phone
screen. But it’s worth describing first, because it’s the source from which all
other lists spring.

Your iPhone’s own phone number appears at the very top of the Contacts list.
That’s a much better place for it than deep at the end of a menu labyrinth, as on
most phones.

Contacts is your address book—your master phone book. Every cellphone
has a Contacts list, of course, but the beauty of the iPhone is that you don’t
have to type in the phone numbers one at a time. Instead, the iPhone sucks in
the entire phone book from your Mac or PC; page 218 has the details.
It’s infinitely easier to edit your address book on the computer, where you
have an actual keyboard and mouse. The iPhone also makes it very easy to
add someone’s contact information when they call, email, or send a text message
to your phone, thanks to a prominent Add to Contacts button.
But if in a pinch, on the road, at gunpoint, you have to add, edit, or remove a
contact manually, here’s how to do it.

➊ On the Contacts screen, tap the ± button in the upper-right corner.
You arrive at the New Contact screen, which teems with empty boxes for
phone numbers, email addresses, and so on.

if your computer’s address book has a groups feature, which lets you add names
to subsets like Book Club or Fantasy League guys, you’ll find that they’ve been
synced over to the iPhone. (Mac oS X’s address Book program has groups, for
example.) in that case, you have to tap the group name you want (or all Contacts)
before you see the ± button.

➋ Tap the First Last box. The onscreen keyboard opens automatically,
ready for typing.

ordinarily, the Contacts list sorts names alphabetically, either by first name or last
name . There’s no way to sort it by company name...or is there?
Yes, there is. When you’re creating a contact, tap the First Last box—but enter
only a company name. Then save the entry. if you bother to go all the way back to
Contacts, you’ll see that the entry is now alphabetized by the company name.
You can now reopen it for editing and add the person’s name and other
information. The entry will remain in the list, identified (and sorted) by company
name.

➌ Type the person’s name. See page 20 for a refresher on using the
iPhone’s keyboard. Tap each field (First, Last, Company) before typing into
it. The iPhone capitalizes the first letter of each name for you.

➍ Tap the Save button in the upper-right corner. You return to the New
Contact screen.
on the iPhone, buttons that mean “Save,” “oK,” or “Done” always appear in a blue
box, where they’re easy to spot.

➎ Tap “Add new Phone.” The Edit Phone screen appears.

➏ Type in the phone number, with area code. If you need to insert a
pause—a frequent requirement when dialing access numbers, extension
numbers, or voicemail passwords—type the # symbol, which introduces
a two-second pause in the dialing. You can type several to create longer
pauses.
➐ Then tap the box below the phone number (which starts out saying
“mobile”) to specify what kind of phone number it is. The Label screen offers you a choice of mobile, home, work, main, home fax, pager,
and so on.
if that’s not enough choice of labels—if, for example, you’re entering your friend’s yacht phone—tap add Custom Label at the bottom of the label screen. You’re offered the chance to type in a new label. Tap Save when you’re done.

➑ Tap Save. Repeat steps 5 and 6 to enter additional phone numbers
for this person. If you want to input the person’s email address, Web site
address (URL), and so on, work your way down the New Contact screen
in a similar pattern.

➒ Add a photo of the person, if you like. Tap Add Photo. If you have a
photo of the person in the iPhone already, tap Choose Existing Photo.
You’re taken to your photo collection, where you can find a good headshot

Alternatively, tap Take Photo to activate the iPhone’s built-in camera
(page y). Frame up the person, then tap the green camera button to snap
the shot.In either case, you wind up with the Move and Scale screen. Here, you
can frame up the photo so that the person’s face is nicely sized and centered.
Spread two fi ngers to enlarge the photo; drag your fi nger to move
the image within the frame. Tap Set Photo to commit the photo to the
address book’s memory.
From now on, this photo will pop up on the screen whenever the person
calls.

➓ Choose a ringtone. The iPhone lets you choose a different ringtone for
each person in your address book. The idea is that you’ll know by the
sound of the ring who’s calling. To do that, tap Assign Ringtone. On the
next screen, tap the sound you want and then tap Info to return to the
main contact screen.
1 Add an email address, Web address (URL), if you like. Each has its
own button. You add this information just the way you add phone
numbers.

2 Add your own fields. Very cool: If you tap Add Field at the bottom of the
screen, you go down the rabbit hole into Field Land, where you can add
any of ten additional info bits about the person whose card you’re editing:
Prefix (like Mr. or Mrs.), Suffix (like M.D. or Esq.), Nickname, Job Title,
and so on. Tap Save when you’re finished.
To delete any of these information bits later, tap the – button next to it, and then
tap the red Delete button to confirm.

Add Call (Conference Calling) - iphone

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The iPhone is all about software, baby, and that’s nowhere more apparent
than in its facility for handling multiple calls at once. The simplicity and reliability
of this feature puts other cellphones to shame. Never again, in attempting
to answer a second call, will you have to tell the first person, “If I lose you,
I’ll call you back.”

Suppose you’re on a call. Now then, here’s how you can:
Make an outgoing call. Tap Add Call. The iPhone puts the first person
on hold—neither of you can hear each other—and returns you to the
Phone program and its various phone-number lists. You can now make a
second call just the way you made the first. The top of the screen makes
clear that the first person is still on hold as you talk to the second.

Receive an incoming call. If a second call comes in while you’re on the
first, you see the name or number (and photo, if any) of the new caller.
You can tap either Ignore (meaning, “Send to voicemail; I’m busy now”),
Hold Call + Answer (the first call is put on hold while you take the second),
or End Call + Answer (ditch the first call).

Whenever you’re on two calls at once, the top of the screen identifies both
other parties. Two new buttons appear, too:
Swap lets you flip back and forth between the two calls. At the top of the
screen, you see the names or numbers of your callers. One says HOLD
(the one who’s on hold, of course) and the other bears a white telephone
icon, which lets you know who you’re actually speaking to.

Think how many TV and movie comedies have relied on the old “Woops, I
hit the wrong Call Waiting button and now I’m bad-mouthing somebody
directly to his face instead of behind his back” gag! That can’t happen on
the iPhone.
You can swap calls by tapping Swap or by tapping the HOLD person’s
name or number.

Merge combines the two calls so all three of you can converse at once.
Now the top of the screen announces, “Bill O’Reilly & Al Franken” (or whatever
the names of your callers are), and then changes to say “Conference”.
If you tap the O button, you see the names or numbers of everyone in
your conference call. You can drop one of the calls by tapping its N button
(and then End Call to confi rm), or choose Private to have a person-to-person private chat with one participant. (Tap Merge Calls to return to
the conference call.)

if a call comes in while you’re already talking to someone, tap the “Hold Call +
answer” button. Then tap Merge Calls if you want to add the newcomer to the
party.

This business of combining calls into one doesn’t have to stop at two. At any
time, you can tap Add Call, dial a third number, and then tap Merge to combine
it with your first two. And then a fourth call, and a fifth. With you, that
makes six people on the call.
Then your problem isn’t technological, it’s social, as you try to conduct a
meaningful conversation without interrupting each other.

Just remember that if you’re on the phone with five people at once, you’re using
up your monthly aT&T minutes five times as fast. Better save those conference calls
for weekends!

Hold
When you tap this button, you put the call on hold. Neither you nor the other
guy can hear anything. Tap again to resume the conversation.
Contacts
This button opens the address book program, so that you can look up a number
or place another call.

Fun with Phone Calls

2009-01-13T22:58:00.000-08:00

Whenever you’re on a call, the iPhone makes it pitifully easy to perform stunts
like turning on the speakerphone, putting someone on hold, taking a second
call, and so on. Each of these is a one-tap function.
Here are the six options that appear on the screen whenever you’re on a call.

Mute
Tap this button to mute your own microphone, so that the other guy can’t
hear you. (You can still hear him, though.) Now you have a chance to yell
upstairs, to clear the phlegm from your throat, or to do anything else you’d
rather the other party not hear. Tap again to unmute.

Keypad
Sometimes, you absolutely have to input touch tones, which is generally a
perk only of phones with physical dialing keys. For example, that’s usually how
you operate home answering machines when you call in for messages, and
it’s often required by automated banking, reservations, and similar systems.
Tap this button to produce the traditional iPhone dialing pad, illustrated on
page 50. Each digit you touch generates the proper touch tone for the computer
on the other end to hear.

When you’re finished, tap Hide Keypad to return to the dialing-functions
screen, or tap End Call if your conversation is complete.

Speaker
Tap this button to turn on the iPhone’s built-in speakerphone—a great handsfree
option when you’re caught without your earbuds or Bluetooth headset.
(In fact, the speakerphone doesn’t work if the earbuds are plugged in or a
Bluetooth headset is connected.)

When you tap the button, it turns blue to indicate that the speaker is activated.
Now you can put the iPhone down on a table or counter and have a
conversation with both hands free. Tap Speaker again to channel the sound
back into the built-in earpiece.

Remember that the speaker is on the bottom edge. if you’re having trouble
hearing it, and the volume is all the way up, consider pointing the speaker toward
you, or even cupping one hand around the bottom to direct the sound.

Not Answering Calls - iphone

2009-01-13T22:57:00.001-08:00

And what if you’re listening to a really good song, or you see that the call
comes from someone you really don’t want to deal with right now?

In that case, you have two choices. First, you can just ignore it. If you wait long
enough (four rings), the call will go to voicemail (even if you’ve silenced the
ringing/vibrating as described above).
Second, you can dump it to voicemail immediately (instead of waiting for the
four rings). How you do that depends on the setup:
If you’re using the iPhone, tap the Decline button that appears on the
screen.
If the iPhone is asleep or locked, tap the Sleep/Wake button twice fast.
If you’re wearing the earbuds, squeeze the microphone clicker for two
seconds.
Of course, if your callers know you have an iPhone, they’ll also know that
you’ve deliberately dumped them into voicemail—because they won’t hear
all four rings.

Silencing the Ring - iphone

2009-01-13T22:56:00.002-08:00

Sometimes, you need a moment before you can answer the call; maybe you
need to exit a meeting or put in the earbuds, for example. In that case, you
can stop the ringing and vibrating by pressing one of the physical buttons on
the edges (Sleep/Wake button or either volume key). The caller still hears the
phone ringing, and you can still answer it within the first four rings, but at least
the sound won’t be annoying those around you.
(This assumes, of course, that you haven’t just flipped the ring-silencing switch,

Multitasking - iphone

2009-01-13T22:56:00.001-08:00

Don’t forget, by the way, that the iPhone is a multitasking master. Once you’re
on the phone, you can dive into any other program—to check your calendar,
for example—without interrupting the call.
If you’re connected to the Internet via a Wi-Fi hot spot (page 106), you can
even surf the Web, check your email, or use other Internet functions of the
iPhone without interrupting your call. (If you’re not in a hot spot, you won’t be
able to get online until the call is complete.)

Answering Calls - iphone

2009-01-13T22:53:00.000-08:00

When someone calls your iPhone, you’ll know it; three out of your five senses
are alerted. Depending on how you’ve set up your iPhone, you’ll hear a ring,
feel vibration, and see the caller’s name and photo fill that giant iPhone screen.
(Scent and taste will have to wait until iPhone 2.0.)

How you answer depends on what’s happening at the time:
If you’re using the iPhone, tap the green Answer button. Tap End Call
when you both have said enough.
If the iPhone is asleep or locked, the screen lights up and says, “slide to
answer.” If you slide your finger as indicated by the arrow, you simultaneously
unlock the phone and answer the call.
If you’re wearing earbuds, the music nicely fades out and then pauses;
you hear the ring both through the phone’s speaker and through your
earbuds. Answer by squeezing the clicker on the right earbud cord, or by
using either of the methods described above.
When the call is over, you can click again to hang up—or just wait until
the other guy hangs up. Either way, the music will fade in again and
resume from precisely the spot where you were so rudely interrupted.

incoming calls pause and fade video playback the same way. in this case, though, hanging up does not make video playback resume. instead, the screen displays the list of videos. apple says it’s a bug in version 1.0.

Battery Life Tips - iphone

2009-01-13T22:47:00.001-08:00

The biggest wolfers of electricity on your iPhone are its screen and its wireless
features. Therefore, you can get substantially longer life from each battery
charge by using these features:
Dim the screen. In bright light, the screen brightens (but uses more battery
power). In dim light, it darkens.

This works because of an ambient light sensor that’s hiding behind the glass above
the earpiece. apple says that it tried having the light sensor active all the time, but
it was weird to have the screen constantly dimming and brightening as you used
it. So the sensor now samples the ambient light and adjusts the brightness only
once—when you unlock the phone after waking it.

You can use this information to your advantage. By covering up the sensor
as you unlock the phone, you force it into a low-power, dim screen
setting (because the phone believes that it’s in a dark room). Or by holding
it up to a light as you wake it, you get full brightness. In both cases,
you’ve saved all the taps and navigation it would have taken you to fi nd
the manual brightness slider in Settings.

Turn off Wi-Fi. Tap HomeÆSettingsÆWi-FiÆOn/Off. If you’re not in a
wireless hot spot anyway, you may as well stop the thing from using its
radio.
Or, at the very least, tell the iPhone to stop searching for Wi-Fi networks it
can connect to. Page 242 has the details.
Turn off the phone, too. In Airplane mode, you shut off both Wi-Fi and
the cellular radios, saving the most power of all.

Making Calls - iphone

2009-01-13T22:45:00.002-08:00

Suppose you’ve already activated your phone (Appendix A), and the “number
of bars” logo in the upper-left corner tells you that you’ve got cellular reception.
You’re ready to start a conversation.
Well, almost ready. The iPhone offers four ways to dial, but all of them require
that you first be in the Phone application (program).

To get there:
➊ If you’re not already on the Home screen, press the Home button.
You arrive at the Home screen.
➋ Tap the Phone icon. It’s always in the lower-left corner of the Home
screen.

the upper-right corner of the Phone icon tells you how
many waiting voicemail messages you have.

Now you’ve arrived in the Phone program. A new row of icons appears at the
bottom, representing the four ways of dialing:
Favorites list. Here’s the iPhone’s version of speed-dial keys: It lists the 20
people you think you most frequently call. Tap a name to make the call.
(For details on building and editing this list, see page .)
Recents list. Every call you’ve made, answered, or missed recently
appears in this list. Missed callers’ names appear in red lettering, which
makes them easy to spot—and easy to call back.

Tap a name or number to dial. Or tap the O button to view the details of
a call—when, where, how long—and, if you like, to add this number to
your Contacts list.

Contacts. Your master phone book. If your social circle is longer than one
screenful, you’ll have the distinct pleasure of flicking through it (page 17).
Or, if you’re in a hurry to get to the T’s, use the A to Z index down the
right edge of the screen. You can tap the last-name initial letter you want
(R, or W, or whatever). Alternatively, you can drag your fi nger up or down
the index. The list scrolls in real time.

In any case, when you see the name you want, tap it to open its “card,”
fi lled with phone numbers and other info. Tap the number you want to
dial.

How would you like your phonebook sorted alphabetically: by last name or by first
name? and how would you like the names to appear: as “Potter, Harry” or as “Harry
Potter”? The iPhone lets you choose.

Keypad. This dialing pad may be virtual, but the buttons are a heck of a
lot bigger than they are on regular cellphones, making them easy to tap,
even with fat fingers. You can punch in any number and then tap Call to
place the call.

Once you’ve dialed, no matter which method, either hold the iPhone up to
your head, put in the earbuds, turn on the speakerphone, or put on
your Bluetooth earpiece—and start talking!

Phone Calls - iphone

2009-01-13T22:45:00.001-08:00

As you probably know, using the iPhone means choosing aT&T
Wireless as your cellphone carrier. if you’re a verizon, Sprint, or
T-Mobile fan, too bad. aT&T (formerly Cingular) has the iPhone
exclusively at least until 2012.
Why did apple choose aT&T? For two reasons.
First, because apple wanted a gSM carrier (page 8). Second, because of
the way the cellphone world traditionally designs phones. it’s the carrier,
not the cellphone maker, that wears the pants, makes all the decisions,
and wields veto power over any feature. That’s why so much traditional
cellphone software is so alike—and so terrible.
on this particular phone, however, apple intended to make its own decisions,
and so it required carte-blanche freedom to maneuver. aT&T agreed
to let apple do whatever it liked—without even knowing what the machine
was going to be! aT&T was even willing to rework its voicemail system to
accommodate apple’s visual voicemail idea (page 53).
in fact, to keep the iPhone under apple’s cloak of invisibility, aT&T engineering
teams each received only a piece of it so that nobody knew what
it all added up to. apple even supplied aT&T with a bogus user interface
to fake them out!

Charging the iPhone

2009-01-13T22:45:00.000-08:00

The iPhone has a built-in, rechargeable battery that fills up a substantial chunk
of the iPhone’s interior. How long one charge can drive your iPhone depends
on what you’re doing—music playback saps the battery least, Internet and
video sap it the most. But one thing is for sure: Sooner or later, you’ll have to
recharge the iPhone. (For most people, that’s every other day or so.)

You recharge the iPhone by seating it in the white syncing cradle that came
with it. You can plug the far end into either of two places to supply power:
Your computer’s USB jack. Just make sure that the Mac or PC won’t go
to sleep or turn off while the iPhone is plugged into it. Not only will the
battery not charge, but it may actually lose charge if the computer isn’t
turned on.
The AC adapter. The little white two-prong cube that came with the
iPhone snaps onto the end of the cradle’s USB cable and plugs into a
standard power outlet.
If the iPhone is unlocked, the battery icon in the upper-right corner displays
a lightning bolt to let you know that it’s receiving electricity and charging the
battery. If it’s locked, pressing the Home button wakes it long enough to show
you a battery gauge big enough to see from space.
In general, you can use the iPhone while it’s charging. The one exception: If
the battery charge is really low, it may have to soak in several minutes’ worth
of power before it can turn on.

How the Dictionary Works - iphone

2009-01-13T22:44:00.000-08:00

The iPhone has an English dictionary built in (minus the definitions). As you
type, it compares what you’ve typed against the words in that dictionary (and
against the names in your address book). If it finds a match or a partial match,
it displays a suggestion just beneath what you’ve typed.
If you tap the Space bar to accept the suggestion, wonderful.
If you don’t—if you dismiss the suggestion and allow the “mistake” to stand—
then the iPhone adds that word to a custom, dynamic dictionary, assuming
that you’ve just typed some name, bit of slang, or terminology that wasn’t in
its dictionary originally. It dawns on the iPhone that maybe that’s a legitimate
word it doesn’t know—and adds it to the dictionary. From now on, in other words, it will accept that bizarre new word as a legitimate word—and, in fact,
will even suggest it the next time you type something like it.
Words you’ve added to the dictionary actually age. If you stop using some
custom term, the iPhone gradually learns to forget it. That’s handy behavior if
you never intended for that word to become part of the dictionary to begin
with (that is, it was a mistake).

if you feel you’ve really made a mess of your custom dictionary, and the iPhone
keeps suggesting ridiculous alternate words, you can always start fresh. Tap
HomeÆSettingsÆgeneralÆReset; then tap Reset Keyboard Dictionary. Now the
iPhone’s dictionary is the way it was when it came from the factory, without any of
the words it learned from you.

How to Type Punctuation with One Touch - iphone

2009-01-13T22:42:00.000-08:00

On the iPhone, the punctuation keys and alphabet keys appear on two different
keyboard layouts. That’s a serious hassle, because each time you want
a period or a comma, it’s an awkward, three-step dance: (1) Tap the „ key
to get the punctuation layout. (2) Tap the period. (3) Tap the ABC key, or just
press the Space bar, to return to the alphabet layout.
Imagine how excruciating it is to type, for example, “a P.O. Box in the U.S.A.”!
That’s 34 finger taps and 10 mode changes!
Fortunately, there’s a secret way to get a period, comma, or another punctuation
mark with only a single finger gesture.
The iPhone doesn’t register most key presses until you lift your finger. But the
Shift and Punctuation keys register their taps on the press down instead.
So here’s what you can do, all in one motion:
➊ Touch the „ key, but don’t lift your finger. The punctuation layout
appears.
➋ Slide your finger a onto the period or comma key, and release. The
ABC layout returns automatically. You’ve typed a period or a comma with
one finger touch instead of three.

if you’re a two-thumbed typist, you can also hit the „ key with your left thumb,
and then tap the punctuation key with your right. it even works on the = subpunctuation
layout, although you’ll probably visit that screen less often.

In fact, you can type any of the punctuation symbols the same way. This technique
makes a huge difference in the usability of the keyboard.

This same trick saves you a finger-press when capitalizing words, too. You can put
your finger down on the L key and slide directly onto the letter you want to type
its uppercase version.

Seven Basic Finger Techniques - iphone

2009-01-13T22:26:00.000-08:00

The iPhone isn’t quite like any machine that came before it, and operating
it isn’t quite like using any other machine. You do everything on the touch
screen instead of with physical buttons. Here’s what you need to know.

Tap
You’ll do a lot of tapping on the iPhone’s on-screen buttons. They’re usually
nice and big, giving your fleshy fingertip a fat target.
You can’t use a stylus, fingernail, pen tip, or anything else; only skin contact
works. That’s too bad for people who wear gloves on the job.

Drag
When you’re zoomed into a map, Web page, email, or photo, you scroll around
just by sliding your finger across the glass in any direction—like a flick, but
slower and more controlled. It’s a huge improvement over scroll bars, especially
when you want to scroll diagonally.

Slide
In some situations, you’ll be asked to confirm an action by sliding your finger
across the screen. That’s how you unlock the phone’s buttons after it’s been
in your pocket, for example. It’s ingenious, really; you may bump the touch
screen when you reach into your pocket for something, but it’s extremely
unlikely that your knuckles will randomly slide it in just the right way.
You also have to swipe to confirm that you want to turn off the iPhone, to
answer a call on a locked iPhone, or to shut off an alarm. Swiping like this is
also a great shortcut for deleting email or text message.

Flick
A flick is a fast, less controlled slide. You flick vertically to scroll lists on the
iPhone. You’ll discover, usually with some expletive like “Whoa!” or “Jeez!,” that
scrolling a list in this way is a blast. The faster your flick, the faster the list spins
downward or upward. But lists have a real-world sort of momentum; they
slow down after a second or two, so you can see where you wound up.At any point during the scrolling of the list, you can flick again (if you didn’t
go far enough) or tap to stop the scrolling (if you see the item you want to
choose).

Pinch and Spread
In the Photos, Mail, Web, and Google Maps programs, you can zoom in on a
photo, message, Web page, or map by placing two fingers (usually thumb
and forefinger) on the glass and spreading them. The image magically grows,
as though it’s printed on a sheet of rubber.
Once you’ve zoomed in like this, you can then zoom out again by putting two
fingers on the glass and pinching them together.

The english language has failed apple here. Moving your thumb and forefinger closer together has a perfect verb: pinching. But there’s no word to describe moving them the opposite direction. apple uses the oxymoronic expression pinch out to describe that move (along with the redundant-sounding pinch in). in this book, the opposite of “pinching” is “spreading.”

Double-Tap
Double-tapping is actually pretty rare on the iPhone. It’s not like the Mac or
Windows, where double-clicking the mouse always means “open.” Because
the iPhone’s operating system is far more limited, you open something with
one tap.
A double tap, therefore, is reserved for three functions:
In Safari (the Web browser), Photos, and Google Maps programs, doubletapping
zooms in on whatever you tap, magnifying it.
In the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, “restore to
original size” after you’ve zoomed in.
When you’re watching a video, double-tapping switches aspect ratios
(video screen shape);
Two-Finger Tap
This weird little gesture crops up only in one place: in Google Maps. It means
“zoom out.” To perform it, you tap once on the screen—with two fingers.

The Keyboard - iphone

2009-01-13T22:21:00.002-08:00

Very few iPhone features have triggered as much angst, hope, and criticism
as the on-screen keyboard. It’s true, boys and girls: the iPhone has no physical
keys. A virtual keyboard, therefore, is the only possible system for entering
text.
The keyboard appears automatically whenever you tap in a place where typing
is possible: in an outgoing email or text message, in the Notes program, in
the address bar of the Web browser, and so on.
Just tap the key you want. As your finger taps the glass, a “speech balloon”
appears above your finger, showing an enlarged version of the key you actually
hit (since your finger is now blocking your view of the keyboard).
In darker gray, surrounding the letters, you’ll find these special keys:
Shift (L). When you tap this key, it glows white, to indicate that it’s
in effect. The next letter you type appears as a capital. Then the L key
automatically returns to normal, meaning that the next letter will be
lowercase.

The iPhone has a Caps Lock feature, but you have to request it. in the Settings
program, turn on “enable caps lock” as described on page 252.
From now on, if you double-tap the L key, the key turns blue. You’re now in Caps
Lock mode, and you’ll now type in aLL CaPiTaLS until you tap the L key again. (if
you can’t seem to make Caps Lock work, try double-tapping the L key fast.)

Backspace (V). This key actually has three speeds.
Tap it once to delete the letter just before the blinking insertion point.
Hold it down to “walk” backward, deleting as you go.
If you hold down the key long enough, it starts deleting words rather
than letters, one whole chunk at a time.
„. Tap this button when you want to type numbers or punctuation.
The keyboard changes to offer a palette of numbers and symbols. Tap
the same key—which now says ABC—to return to the letters keyboard.
(Fortunately, there’s a much faster way to get a period; see page 24.)
Once you’re on the numbers/symbols pad, a new dark gray button appears,
labeled =. Tapping it summons a third keyboard layout, containing
the less frequently used symbols, like brackets, the # and % symbols,
bullets, and math symbols.
Return. Tapping this key moves to the next line, just as on a real
keyboard.
There’s no Tab key in iPhone land, and no enter key.

In the Box - iphone

2009-01-13T22:21:00.001-08:00

Inside the minimalist box, you get the iPhone, its earbud/mike cord, and:
The charging/syncing dock. You charge your iPhone by seating it in
this white desktop dock. Most people plug the dock’s USB cord into a
Mac or PC for simultaneous syncing and charging. (See Chapter 11.)
The AC adapter. When you’re traveling without a computer, though,
you can plug the dock’s USB cable into the included two-prong outlet
adapter, so you can charge the iPhone directly from a wall socket.
Finger Tips. Cute name for a cute fold-out leaflet of iPhone basics.
Two white Apple decals. Let your car window show that you’re a
phone-carrying member of the Apple cult.
A screen cloth. This little pseudo-suede cloth wipes the grease off the
screen, although your clothing does just as well.
What you won’t find in the box (because it wouldn’t fit) is a CD containing the
iTunes software. You’re expected to have a copy of that on your computer
already. In fact, you must have an iTunes account to set up and use the iPhone

If you don’t have iTunes on your computer, you can download it from www.
apple.com/itunes.

The Bottom and the Back - iphone

2009-01-13T22:21:00.000-08:00

On the bottom edge of the iPhone, Apple has parked three important components,
none of which you’ll ever have to bother with: the speakerphone speaker, the microphone, and the 30-pin connector that charges and syncs
the iPhone with your computer.
There’s only one payoff for knowing what’s down here: The speakerphone isn’t
very loud, because it’s aimed straight out of the iPhone’s edge, away from you. if
you cup your hand around the bottom edge, you can redirect the sound toward
your face, for an immediate boost in volume and quality.On the back of the iPhone, the camera lens appears in the upperleft
corner. The rest of the back is mostly textured aluminum—all except the
bottom, which is black plastic. That’s where the antenna is. Cellphone signals
have a hard time going through metal, which is why this one piece is made of
plastic. Fortunately for people who fear cellphone radiation, the antenna is as
far from your brain as it can be.

You may have noticed one standard cellphone feature that’s not here: the battery
compartment door.
The battery isn’t user-replaceable. it’s rechargeable, of course—it charges
whenever it’s in the white dock—but after 300 or 400 charges, it will start to hold
less juice. eventually, you’ll have to pay apple to install a new battery
(apple says that the added bulk of a protective plastic battery compartment, a
removable door and latch, and battery retaining springs would have meant a
much smaller battery—or a much thicker iPhone.).

Making the Keyboard Work - iphone

2009-01-13T22:19:00.000-08:00

Some people have no problem tapping those tiny virtual keys; others struggle
for days. Either way, here are some tips:
Don’t be freaked out by the tiny narrow keys. Apple knows that your
fingertip is fatter than that.

So as you type, use the whole pad of your fi nger or thumb. Go ahead—
tap as though you’re trying to make a fi ngerprint. Don’t try to tap with
only a skinny part of your fi nger to match the skinny keys. You’ll be surprised
at how fast and accurate this method is. (Tap, don’t press.) This may sound like California New-Age hooey, but trust the keyboard.
Don’t get hung up on individual letters, pausing to check the result, and
so on. Just plow on.

Start out with one-finger typing. Two-thumb, BlackBerry-style typing usually
comes much later. You’ll drive yourself crazy if you start out that way.
If you make a mistake, don’t reflexively go for the Backspace key (V).
Instead, just beneath the word you typed, you’ll find the iPhone’s proposed
replacement. The software analyzes the letters around the one
you typed and, more often than not, figures out what you really meant.
For example, if you accidentally type imsame, the iPhone realizes that
you meant insane, and suggests that word.

To accept its suggestion, tap the Space bar or any piece of punctuation,
like a period or question mark.
To ignore the suggestion, tap it with your fi nger.

The suggestion feature can be especially useful when it comes to contractions,
which are normally clumsy to type because you have to switch
to the punctuation keyboard to find the apostrophe.
So you can save time by deliberately leaving out the apostrophe in contractions
like I’m, don’t, can’t, and so on. Type im, dont, cant, and so on.
The iPhone proposes I’m, don’t, or can’t, so you can just tap the Space bar
to fi x the word and continue.

But what about contractions like “he’ll,” “we’ll,” and “we’re?” if you leave out the
apostrophe on these words, you get “hell,” “well,” and “were,” which are legitimate
words—and the iPhone won’t correct them!
Solution: Double the last letter. if you type helll, welll, and weree, the iPhone will
suggest “he’ll,” “we’ll,” and “we’re.”

The suggestion feature also kicks in when the iPhone thinks it knows
how you intend to complete a correctly spelled word. For example, if you
type fathe, the suggestion says father. This trick usually saves you only a
letter or two, but that’s better than nothing.

although you don’t see it with your eyes, the sizes of the keys on the iPhone
keyboard are actually changing all the time. That is, the software enlarges the
“landing area” of certain keys, based on probability.
For example, suppose you type tim. Now, the iPhone knows that no word in the
language begins timw or timr—and so, invisibly, it enlarges the “landing area” of
the e key, which greatly diminishes your chances of making a typo on that last
letter. Cool.

Without cursor keys, how are you supposed to correct an error that you
made a few sentences ago? Easy—use the Loupe.

Hold your fi ngertip down anywhere in the text until you see the magnifi
ed circle appear. Without lifting your fi nger, drag anywhere in the text;
you’ll see that the insertion point moves along with it. Release when the
blinking line is where you want to delete or add text, just as though you’d
clicked there with a mouse.

in the Safari address bar, you can skip the part about waiting for the loupe to
appear. once you’ve clicked into the address, just start dragging to make it appear
at once.

Don’t bother using the Shift key to capitalize a new sentence. The iPhone
does that capitalizing automatically. (To turn this feature on or off, tap
HomeÆSettingsÆGeneralÆKeyboardÆAuto-Capitalization.)

Silencer Switch, Volume Keys - iphone

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Praise be to the gods of technology—this phone has a Silence All switch!
This little flipper, on the left edge at the top, means that no ringer or alert
sound will humiliate you in a meeting, a movie, or church. When you move
the switch toward the front of the iPhone, the ringer is on. When you push it
toward the back, exposing the orange dot, the ringer is off.
even when silenced, the iPhone still makes noise if you’ve explicitly set an alarm,
also, the phone still vibrates when the silencer is engaged, although you can turn
this feature off.No menus, no holding down keys, just instant silence. All cellphones should
have this feature.With practice, you can learn to tell if the ringer is on while the iPhone is still in your
pocket. That’s because when the ringer is on, the switch falls in a straight line with
the volume keys. By swiping your thumb across these controls from front to back,
you can feel whether the silencer switch is lined up or tilted away.
Below the silencer, still on the left edge, is the volume control—an up/down
rocker switch. It works three different ways:
On a call, these buttons adjust the speaker or earbud volume.
When you’re listening to music, they adjust the playback volume.
At all other times, they adjust the volume of sound effects like the ringer
and alarms.
Either way, a corresponding volume graphic appears on the screen to show
you where you are on the volume scale.

Home Button - iphone

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Here it is. The one and only real button on the front of this phone. Push it to
summon the Home screen, which is your gateway to everything the iPhone
can do.
Having a Home button is a wonderful thing. It means you can never get lost.
No matter how deeply you burrow into the iPhone software, no matter how
far off track you find yourself, one push of the Home button takes you all the
way back to the beginning.
Sounds simple, but remember that the iPhone doesn’t have an actual Back
button or End button. The Home button is the only way out of some screens.
The Home button also wakes up the iPhone if it’s in Standby mode. That’s
sometimes easier than finding the Sleep/Wake switch on the top edge.
The Home button is also a “force quit” button. if you press it for six seconds
straight, whatever program you’re running completely shuts down. That’s a good
troubleshooting technique when a particular program seems to be acting up.Some beginners forget that the Home button is a physical pushbutton—
it’s not touch-sensitive like the screen—and get frustrated when it doesn’t
respond. Give it a real manly push.

Screen Icons

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Here’s a roundup of the icons that you may see in the status bar at the top of
the iPhone screen, from left to right.
μ Cell Signal. As on any cellphone, the number of bars indicates the
strength of your cell signal, and thus the quality of your call audio and
likelihood of losing the connection. If there are zero bars, the dreaded
words “No service” appear here.

G EDGE Network. When this logo appears, your iPhone can get onto
the Internet via AT&T’s very handy, but very slow, EDGE cellular network
. In general, if you have a cell signal, you also have an EDGE
signal.

Mode. If you see the airplane instead of signal and Wi-Fi
bars, the iPhone is in Airplane mode .
Σ Wi-Fi Signal. When you’re connected to a wireless Wi-Fi Internet
hot spot , this indicator appears. The more “soundwaves,” the
stronger the signal.

The iPhone is locked—meaning that the screen and most buttons
don’t work, to avoid accidental presses—whenever it goes to sleep.
2:34 PM. When the iPhone is unlocked, a digital clock replaces the Lock
symbol.

indicator. The iPhone’s playing music. Before you respond, “well,
duh!,” keep in mind that you may not be able to hear the music playing.
For example, maybe the earbuds are plugged into the iPhone but aren’t
in your ears. So this icon is actually a handy reminder that you’re running
your battery down unnecessarily.

’ve got an alarm set. This reminder, too, can be valuable,
especially when you intend to sleep late and don’t want an alarm to go
off. See page 249 for setting (and turning off ) alarms.

Bluetooth connection. The iPhone is connected wirelessly to a
Bluetooth earpiece or hands-free car system, as described on page 188.
(If this symbol is gray, it means that Bluetooth is turned on—and draining
your battery—but it’s not connected to any other gear.)

TTY symbol. You’ve turned on Teletype mode, meaning that the
iPhone can communicate with a Teletype machine. (That’s a special
machine that lets deaf people make phone calls by typing and reading
text. It hooks up to the iPhone with a special cable that Apple sells from
its Web site.)

meter. When the iPhone is plugged into its cradle (which is
itself plugged into a wall outlet or computer), the lightning bolt appears,
indicating that the phone is charging. Otherwise, the battery logo “empties
out” from right to left to indicate how much charge remains.

The Screen - iphone

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The touch screen is your mouse, keyboard, dialing pad, and note pad. It’s
going to get fingerprinty and streaky, although it wipes clean with a quick rub
on your sleeve. You can also use it as a mirror when the iPhone is off.
geeks may enjoy knowing that the screen is 320 by 480 pixels.
But what about scratches? Fortunately, Apple learned its lesson on this one.
The iPhone screen is made of optical-quality, chemically treated glass—not
polycarbonate plastic like the iPod’s screen. It’s actually very difficult to scratch
glass; try it on a window pane some day.
If you’re nervous about protecting your iPhone, you can always get a carrying
case for it. But in general, the iPhone is far more scratch-resistant than the
iPod. Even many Apple employees carry the iPhone in their pockets without
carrying cases.
Camouflaged behind the black glass above the earpiece, where you can’t see
them except with a bright flashlight, are two sensors. First, there’s an ambient-light
sensor that brightens the display when you’re in sunlight and dims it in darker
places. You can also adjust the brightness manually; see page 246.
Second, there’s a proximity sensor. When something (like your head) is close to the
sensor when you’re using the phone functions, it shuts off the screen illumination
and touch sensitivity. Try it out with your hand. (it works only in the Phone
application.) You save power and avoid tapping buttons with your cheekbone.

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The tour continues with the top-left corner of the iPhone. Here’s where you
plug in the white earbuds that came with your iPhone.
This little recessed hole is no ordinary 3.5-millimeter audio jack, however. It
contains a secret fourth pin that conducts sound into the phone from the
microphone on the earbuds cord. Now you, too, can be one of those executives
who walk down the street barking orders to nobody in particular. The
iPhone can stay in your pocket as you walk or drive. You hear the other person
through your earbuds, and the mike on the cord picks up your voice.Incidentally, the tiny microphone nodule on the cord is more than a microphone;
it’s also an Answer/Hang Up clicker, you can use any standard headphones with the iPhone — a welcome
bit of news for audiophiles who don’t think the included earbuds do their music
justice.
The catch, however, is that the molding around the iPhone’s audio jack
prevents most miniplugs from going all the way in. You may be able to get your
headphones to fit by trimming its own plastic collar with a razor blade—or you
can spend $10 for a headphone adapter (from Belkin.com, among others) to get
around this problem.

SIM Card Slot -iphone

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On the top edge of the phone, in the middle, is a tiny pinhole next to what
looks like a very thin slot cover (see page 6). If you push a pin or an unfolded
paper clip straight into the hole, the SIM card tray suddenly pops out.
So what’s a SIM card?
It turns out that there are two major cellphone network types: CDMA, used by
Verizon and Sprint; and GSM, used by AT&T, T-Mobile, and most other countries
around the world. Your iPhone works only on GSM networks. (That’s one huge reason that Apple chose AT&T as its exclusive carrier. Apple wanted to
design a phone that works overseas.)

Every GSM phone keeps your account information—details like your phone
number and calling-plan details—on a tiny memory card known as a SIM card
(Subscriber Information Module). On some phones, though not the iPhone, it
even stores your address book.
What’s cool is that, by removing the card and putting it into another GSM
phone, you transplant the iPhone’s
brain. The other phone now knows
your number and account details,
which can be handy when your
iPhone goes in for repair or battery
replacement.
Apple thinks that SIM cards are geeky and intimidating, and that they should
be invisible. That’s why, unlike most GSM phones, your iPhone came with the
card preinstalled and ready to go. Most people will never have any reason to
open this tray, unless they just want to see what a SIM card looks like.
You can’t use any other company’s SiM card in the iPhone—it’s not an “unlocked”
gSM phone. other recent aT&T cards will work, however, but only after you first
activate them. after inserting the other card — it fits only one way, with the aT&T
logo facing up—connect the iPhone to your computer and let the iTunes software
walk you through the process.
If you were curious enough to open it up, you close the tray simply by pushing
it back into the phone until it clicks.

Locked Mode

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When you don’t touch the screen for one minute, or when you put the iPhone
to sleep, the phone locks itself. When it’s locked, the screen isn’t touch-sensitive.
Fortunately, you can still take phone calls and control music playback.
Remember, this phone is all touch screen, so it’s much more prone to accidental
button-pushes than most phones. You wouldn’t want to discover that your iPhone has been calling people or taking photos from the depths of your
pocket or purse.
That’s why the first thing you do after waking the iPhone is unlock it. Fortunately,
that’s easy (and a lot of fun) to do: place your fingertip on the gray arrow and
slide it to the right, as indicated by the animation.
The iPhone can demand a password each time it wakes up, if you like.

Sleep Switch (On/Off)

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On the top edge of the iPhone, you’ll find a black plastic button shaped like
a dash.
This button has several functions.
Sleep/Wake. Tapping it once puts the iPhone to sleep—that is, into
Standby mode, ready for incoming calls but consuming very little power.
Tapping it again turns on the screen, so it’s ready for action.
On/Off. This switch can also turn the iPhone off completely, so it consumes
no power at all; incoming calls get dumped into voicemail (page
53). You might turn the iPhone off whenever you’re not going to use it for
a few days.
To turn the iPhone off , press the Sleep/Wake switch for three seconds.
The screen changes to say, “slide to power off .” Confi rm your decision by
placing a fi ngertip on the red right-pointing arrow and sliding to the
right. The device shuts off completely.

Headphone Simcard Sleep/wake button

if you change your mind about turning the iPhone off, tap the Cancel button, or
do nothing. if the iPhone decides that you’re not paying attention, it dismisses the
“slide to power off” screen automatically.
To turn the iPhone back on, press the switch again for a couple seconds.
The chromelike Apple logo appears as the phone boots up.
Answer call/Dump to voicemail. The upper-right switch has one more
function. When a call comes in, you can tap it once to silence the ringing
or vibrating. After four rings, the call goes to your voicemail.
You can also tap it twice to dump the call to voicemail immediately. (Of
course, because they didn’t hear four rings, iPhone veterans will know
that you’ve blown them off . Bruised egos may result. Welcome to the
new world of iPhone Etiquette.)

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The Guided Tour

If you had never seen all the videos and photos of the iPhone, and you
just found it lying on someone’s desk, you might not guess that it’s
a phone (let alone an iPod/Web browser/alarm clock/stopwatch/etc.).
You can’t see any antenna, mouthpiece, earpiece—and, goodness knows,
there are no number keys for dialing.
it’s all there, though, hidden inside this sleek black-and-silver slab.
For the rest of this book, and for the rest of your life with the iPhone, you’ll
be expected to know what’s meant by, for example, “the Home button” and
“the Sleep/Wake switch.” a guided tour, therefore, is in order. Keep hands
and feet inside the tram at all times.

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