Familiar iPod Features - iphone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!