More iPhone Resources
1. Phone
The iPhone works like any other cell phone. You hold it up to your ear and talk. The iPhone uses its position sensors to determine when it is up at your ear and turns off the multi-touch screen. This avoids any accidental cheek activations of the multi-touch screen buttons.While in a call you can mute, bring up a keypad, turn on the speaker phone, initiate three-way calling, place the call on hold or add the caller to your contacts with just a tap of a button.
You can also press the home button and pull up another application while still on the phone. If you have an incoming call while on the phone you can switch calls or initiate a three-way call. It has photo caller ID if you have a photo attached to a contact.
2. Phone: Favorites, Recents, Keypads
Favorites houses your speed dial list. Pressing the plus button at the top right of the screen pulls up your Contacts list. Tap on a name and it is added to your Favorites. If that contact has more that one phone number, another screen comes up for you to choose a specific number.The Recents screen shows your calls. You can pull up all your calls or just your missed calls with a simple tap. Missed calls are color coded in red. Tap on the name/number to dial it or tap the right arrow to bring up more information and/or add it as a contact.
The Keypad brings up a keypad for dialing numbers or entering touch tone information. You can also initiate three-way calling with a tap of that button.
3. Phone: Contacts & Voicemail
Contacts lets you view and add contacts. The alphabet is listed on the right of the screen and tapping a letter jumps you there. You can call, email, text, map an address and add that contact to your Favorites from within your contact information.You can also view your Favorites, Recents and Contacts by last name first or last name last. Even if you view them last name last they are still sorted alphabetically by last name. This option makes it easy to find who you are looking for.
Voicemail brings up your visual voicemail. It lists voicemail by name/number so you can choose which voicemail to listen to by tapping on it. There is also a progress slider during voicemail playback that lets you go to any part of the voicemail.
4. Mail
The e-mail client is easy to read and navigate and flexible enough to support almost all types of e-mail. Once your e-mail is setup (multiple accounts are supported) you are presented with beautifully rendered, full html e-mail. Text, images, and hot linked e-mail addresses, web addresses and phone numbers show up on a zoom able page.Word and PDF attachments can be viewed as well. A page number marker floats on top of multi-page attachments as well.
5. Internet
The Safari internet browser shows off the power of the iPhone and the usability in the multi-touch interface. You start with a full blown html web browser. Next you add multi-page capability. You can open more that one web page and flick between them.Viewing of a web page starts with a full page, thumbnail view of the site. It is too small to read but large enough to understand the page. Then you simply tap on the area you are interested in and it zooms into that section. You can drag the page around to scroll or view other areas. Double tap to go back to the thumbnail view.
You can rotate the iPhone to switch between landscape and portrait mode. And pinching and stretching lets you zoom manually.
6. iPod
The iPhone's iPod is perhaps the best iPod yet. You have everything you get in a video iPod plus a multi-touch widescreen. So you can watch videos on the large screen and control it with your finger.You also have a great digital music player in the iPod. And the greatest usability enhancement is an interactive cover flow that lets you literally thumb through your record collection.
7. Text Messaging
Here you can send SMS text messaging with the touch type keyboard. A nifty feature organizes text messaging by phone number organizing messages into conversations. Phone numbers and web addresses are hotlinked so a tap opens up that application.8. Calendar
The Calendar application icon shows the day and date. Tapping it brings up the full calendar. You can view it in day or month mode. You can also bring up a list of all appointments. You can add an appointment manually or sync with your desktop calendar application.9. Photos
Photos lets you view photographs on your iPhone. You can view pictures taken with the iPhone camera in the Camera Roll or view pictures uploaded to the iPhone through iTunes (like a standard photo iPod). A thumbnail viewer lets you select a photo with a tap. You can then rotate the phone for landscape or portrait mode. Zooming and navigating works with the pinch, stretch and drag of the multi-touch screen. 10. Camera
The camera is a 2-megapixel camera that saves photos to your iPhone. There is no zoom function and you need a well lit, non-moving subject for a good photo. But it does take a good photo if you meet the requirements. There is also a button to take you to the camera roll in the photos application.
