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| iPhone: The Missing Manual | 
 enlarge | Author: David Pogue
Publisher: Pogue Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 4954
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0596513747
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38456
EAN: 9780596513740
ASIN: 0596513747
Publication Date: August 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Excellent condition, no highlighting or markings
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent, must-have iPhone resource! February 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book to get the most out of my exciting new 16GB iPhone. Interestingly enough, I actually already was under contract with T-mobile with a blackberry Pearl, but after buying an iTouch and liking it so much, I took the iTouch back to Sam's club, and then bought the 16GB iPhone so that I wasn't carrying both it and the iTouch.
The book gives you tips that I hadn't thought of - for example, if I wanted my emails to get to my Blackberry Pearl, I had to close Microsoft Outlook on my PC. Same with the iPhone. However, the manual (page 140) showed me that I could go into my settings in Outlook, and check a box to leave the emails on the server in lieu of deleting them, which means I can now leave Outlook open and receive them on both my iPHone and Outlook at the same time. And, I could check a box to delete emails from the server when the email is deleted from my Inbox, or I could delete them automatically after a period of time (such as anywhere from 1-10 days) so that the server would not back up. Cool! Didn't now this.
There are soo many things that you don't know about the phone just from trying it. Another example from the book that I found of value is the following excerpted directly from it:
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The punctuation keys and alphabet keys appear in two different keyboard layouts. So every time you want to type a period or a comma, it's a three-step, awkward dance: (1) Tap the ".?123" key in the lower left to summon the punctuation layout. (2) Type the period. (3) Type the ABC key in the lower left 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!
And therefore imagine how thrilled I was to receive an email from reader Andrew McCallum, containing a method of typing a period or a comma with only a SINGLE finger gesture.
The iPhone doesn't register most key presses until you *release* your finger. But Andrew discovered that the Shift and Punctuation keys register their taps on the *press-down* instead.
So here's what you can do, all in one motion:
1. Touch the ".?123" key, but don't lift your finger as the punctuation layout appears.
2. Slide your finger a half inch onto the period or comma key, and release.
Incredibly, the ABC layout returns automatically. You've typed a period or a comma with one finger touch instead of three. In fact, you can type ANY of the punctuation symbols the same way.
This makes a HUGE difference in the usability of the keyboard.
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I also learned that you can easily delete an email simply by "swiping right" on the email, and a red delete button will appear without ever opening the email. This makes it much quicker and easier to delete emails.
These are just some of the examples of the benefits I found in this manual. Also, all of the pictures are in color - another plus.
Highly recommended for any iPhone owner, or someone interested in knowing more about it before buying one. Best of luck -
Iphone--The Missing Manual February 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great product. It will open your world to what this phone can really do, Like the two finger zoom,
Very Useful Information February 13, 2008
I read the book cover to cover, and really was amazed at the number of hints and tips contained in the book. I loaned the book to my son, who had the same reaction. It is a very well written book that is not only interesting but very easy to read, and easy to find these suggestions later. The value of the suggestions contained within the book far exceed the cost of the book!
 "THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS" February 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Hardly anything there that I didn't know. However, this is a great book for a first time MAC product user... Well written and logically laid out.
Good, not great. February 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a good book that goes over the basic functions of the iPhone. The thing is, there really isn't much more in here that you can't get from the PDF file from Apple's website. Also, most of the items covered are VERY basic and can be figured out just by playing with the phone.
The book is well written, easy to read and understand with good illustrations. For a basic hard copy of a users manual, it's pretty darn good. It is now a little outdated with the newest iPhone software update in January 2008 and does not contain any information as to that update, and as of today does not have any updates online at David Pogue's website for the book.
If you want a basic "how to use the iPhone" book, this is great. If you want a "how to use my iPhone to hack Norad" book, this is not it.
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