How to Do Everything with Your iPhone (Paperback)

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Product Description

Get the most out of your iPhone by learning how to use all of its powerful capabilities. Filled with tips, tricks, and shortcuts, this book shows you how to set up your iPhone, make calls, manage voicemail, and load contacts. But that's just the beginning. You'll also learn how to send and receive email, look up turn-by-turn directions, listen to music, plan your week, play videos, and so much more. Plus, you'll find out how to install third-party applications and even use your iPhone with different carriers. Now that you've got the hottest handheld on the market, take it to the limit with help from this hands-on guide.

• Activate your iPhone and modify settings
• Sync your data to your iPhone
• Organize contacts, make calls, and use voicemail
• Load and play music, podcasts, videos, and TV shows
• Send, receive, and manage email and SMS messages
• Browse the Internet with Safari
• Manage and sync appointments with the calendar
• Take pictures and view photos
• Navigate using Google Maps
• Get weather forecasts, YouTube videos, and stock information instantly
• Troubleshoot and maintain your iPhone
• Hack your iPhone to install third-party applications
• Unlock your iPhone for use with different carriers

About the Author

Jason Chen is a freelance technology, gaming, and consumer electronics writer and an editor for the gadgets and technology blog, Gizmodo.

Adam Pash is a freelance technology, software, and consumer electronics writer and an editor for the productivity and technology blog, Lifehacker.

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071497900
• ISBN-13: 978-0071497909
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #749,874 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Its all in what's needed., February 8, 2008

By	Eutychus (Tulsa) - See all my reviews

This book is thorough, basic, elemental. Yes, there's a section about "jail breaking" you iPhone to be able use third party apps...that's what the author is about in much of his work. It would be good to have this book in hand and some of it read before one's new iPhone is broken out of the box. For example, his tips about conditioning the battery on the very first charge and after are very, very valuable. I bought the book "too late." Much of it covers material I had already come across with my phone's use. The book was more basic, for the most part, than I had hoped. Get it before you get the iPhone or shortly thereafter...that way, your needs will coincide much more closely with the author's presentation. It's a very good manual...if you need it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book with good infomation, April 26, 2008

By	Eric Flescher "Dr. Eric Flescher" (Olathe, KS (near Kansas City)) - See all my reviews

Great information, photos and instructions how to use the iPhone inside and more. Now that the new iPhone has come out this book may be outdated. But if you will still use the other older iPhone this is a great buy.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A bit disappointing, February 13, 2008

By	Brad Chandler III (Springfield, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read this after having my iphone for only a few days. In those few days I learned 95%+ of what was in the book. The book was okay - I was just expecting to learn some amazing things and that wasn't the case. Probably an okay book for someone who has no technical expertise.