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Taking Your iPhone to the Max, iOS 5 Edition

verfasst von: Michael Grothaus, Steve Sande, Erica Sadun

Verlag: Apress

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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Unleash the power of your new iPhone 4S or other iOS 5-driven iPhone and take it to the limit using powerful tips and techniques from the Apple experts at TUAW, Erica Sadun, Steve Sande, and Michael Grothaus. Fast and fun to read, Taking Your iPhone 4S to the Max shows you how to get the most out of your iPhone using Apple’s new iOS 5.

Whether you're using the new iPhone 4S or earlier iPhone that runs the new iOS 5, you’ll find all the best undocumented tricks, as well as the most efficient and enjoyable introduction to the iPhone available. Starting with an introduction to iPhone basics, you’ll quickly discover the iPhone’s hidden potential, like how to connect to a TV, use Voice Control using Siri, have video chats with FaceTime, and call friends overseas with low-cost VoIP.

From the unified e-mail inbox and surfing the Web with Mobile Safari, exploring the world of social networking, using the multitasking capabilities of iOS 5, taking and editing photos, shopping for apps, media, and books, or just managing phone calls—you’ll find it all in this book. You’ll even learn tips on where to get the best iPhone accessories. Get ready to take your iPhone 4S and earlier running the new iOS 5 to the max!

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Setup

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Chapter 1. Selecting, Buying, and Activating Your iPhone

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Now that Apples iPhone has been out for a number of years, you may have seen horror stories in the press about how an iPhone is going to cost you thousands of dollars over its lifetime. You have to buy the iPhone, pay for activation, and fork out money for expensive monthly service voice, data, and text plans (not to mention taxes and other fees). If you decide to back out any time during the standard two-year mobile phone contract, youre going to hand over even more money in early termination fees.

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Chapter 2. Putting Your Data and Media on the iPhone

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So, youve unboxed your iPhone and connected it to iTunes. Now what? Chapter 1 briefly introduced the basics of syncing your iPhone with your music, movies, photos, and other data via iTunes. Now this chapter explores the options you have for syncing your data with your iPhone. Whether youve bought your songs and videos from the iTunes Store or have imported them into the program from CDs and DVDs, iTunes can synchronize your iPhone to nearly any content in its library. If you want a rich media and applications library on your iPhone, you need to sync those contents from the library on your computer.

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Meet the Phone

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Chapter 3. Interacting with Your New iPhone

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If your previous mobile phones have not been iPhones, youre in for a treat. Your iPhones touchscreen uses a revolutionary new way to interact. It responds to the language of your touch. Its vocabulary includes taps, drags, pinches, and flicks. With these motions, you control your iPhone as easily as using a trackpad or mouse with your personal computer.

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Chapter 4. Placing Calls with iPhone

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iPhones are versatile devices. They can surf the Web, check the latest stock prices, request a weather report, play thousands of games, and map out directions. But at its core, the iPhone remains a cell phone and that means that making phone calls is its primary function. In this chapter, youll learn the essential things you need to know in order to maximize your iPhone use for placing and receiving calls. Youll discover ways you can get up to speed and make the most of your iPhone as a cell phone.

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Getting Online

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Chapter 5. Browsing with Mobile Safari

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Every iPhone has 3G and Wi-Fi networking capabilities. With these networks, you can connect to the Internet and view web pages directly on your iPhone.

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Chapter 6. Staying in Touch with FaceTime and Messages

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Are you ready to learn what the future feels like? Want to reach out and connect with friends, family, and colleagues in new ways? Remember this: the iPhones cameras arent for just taking pictures and recording video. They can bring people together using a new technology called FaceTime. FaceTime introduces easy and intuitive video calling for your handset. And video chatting isnt the only way you can stay in touch. The newly introduced iMessage app allows you to text anyone who owns an iOS device. For free. It doesnt matter if they own an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. In this chapter youll read about these apps and learn how to use them to stay in touch on your iPhone.

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Chapter 7. iPhone Mail

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Unlike many other smartphones, your iPhone can send, receive, and browse e-mail without getting weighed down with compromise. The iPhone doesnt settle for cramped, odd presentations. Your e-mail looks the way it should — the way it would if you were reading it on your home computer. Thats because the iPhone provides an HTML-compatible rich-text client. Mail looks better because the client is better. Its made to work right.

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Media and Shopping

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Chapter 8. Touching Your Music

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Your iPhone can do a thousand different things, given the right apps. One of the roles that it performs very well is that of media player, and given the family lineage of the iPhone, thats not surprising. The iPhone does this through its Music and Videos apps, which provide you with the ability to play music, show videos, function as an audiobook and podcast player, and even act as a portal to iTunes University. This chapter introduces you to the iPhone-as-iPod music player and shows you how to get the most use out of it.

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Chapter 9. Shopping at the iTunes Store

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The iTunes Store realizes the promise of mobile commerce on handheld devices. The program is beautiful to look at and easy to use. It integrates itself seamlessly into your normal iTunes experience. That being said, it is admittedly a contrivance to sell you things. But these are things that you presumably want and can use while on the road. Stuck at an airport or a coffee shop? Download some new music to enjoy, catch up on last weeks episode or your favorite TV show, or watch that Hollywood blockbuster you never saw in theaters. Yes, the iTunes Store is a point of sale, but its also a fascinating place to spend some time and an interesting application for your iPhone.

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Chapter 10. Shopping at the App Store

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Perhaps the coolest thing about the iPhone is the multitude of apps available for it. As of this writing, more than 450,000 apps are available for the iPhone. These apps range from games to medical programs to reference utilities and more. If theres something youre interested in, theres most likely an app for it. The best news of all is that many apps are totally free, while most others are priced between 99 cents to $2 (though there are some apps that do cost hundreds of dollars). Even long after youve bought it, apps keep your iPhone fresh and new, and with the App Store on your iPhone, you can shop for apps wherever you have a Wi-Fi connection.

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Chapter 11. Reading Books and Newspapers with iBooks and Newsstand

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Not only is your iPhone a wonderful device for playing games, surfing the Web, and listening to music, but with iBooks, its also a powerful e-book reader with a library of more than 30,000 free books at your fingertips as well as thousands more paid books, including many New York Times best sellers. But iBooks doesnt stop there! You can add your PDFs to iBooks so you can carry them with you on the iPhone. This allows you to access all your PDFs from the same library as your books — a great feature for those of you who regularly work with or receive PDF files. In addition to iBooks, Apple has introduced Newsstand in iOS 5. Newstand lets you view and buy all your magazine and newspaper subscriptions in one easy to access location.

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Photos, Video and the Camera

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Chapter 12. Touching Your Photos and Videos

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Free your photos from your home computer! Why huddle around a computer screen, when you can pass your photos from hand to hand? You can touch, explore, and interact with your captured images in a completely new way and share that experience with others. This chapter introduces you to iPhone photo and video navigation and helps you discover how to make the most of these incredibly sophisticated presentation features both for personal enjoyment and for sharing.

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Chapter 13. Photographing and Recording the World Around You

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Every iPhone since 3G offers two cameras — one in the front and one in the rear. These cameras represent two of the most significant features of the iPhone: the ability to take photos and record high-definition video and the ability to place FaceTime video calls. Each generation represents a major improvement in technology over the hardware that preceded it, and each camera upgrade has provided a significant advancement in technology.

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Accessories

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Chapter 14. Staying on Time and Getting There with Clock, Calendar, and Maps

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We admit it — the iPhone has become a major player in the organizer/PDA world. It plays music and video. It lets you send and receive e-mails, read books, takes photos, and play games. Given all that, it should be no surprise that the iPhone offers several very nice utilities that allow you to manage your time, keep track of your appointments, and set alarms. This chapter introduces you to the Clock, Calendar, and Maps applications and shows you how to get the most from them.

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Chapter 15. Using Your Desk Set: Contacts, Calculator, Notes, Weather, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Reminders

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The iPhone is your digital gateway to more tools and apps than you could ever imagine. Chapter 10 taught you how to navigate and download apps from the App Store; this chapter shows you how to use many of the productivity apps that come preinstalled on the iPhone, namely, Contacts, Calculator, Notes, Weather, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Reminders.

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Preferences

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Chapter 16. Customizing Your iPhone

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The iPhone has many settings allowing you to customize how the device works and looks. These settings are all customizable in the Settings app on the Home screen of your iPhone. The iPhones Settings application offers many ways to enhance your iPhone experience, in addition to those options tied to a particular application. These general settings control everything from screen brightness to sound effects to keyboard tricks. Ive explored various options in the Settings app throughout this book. This chapter covers the remainder of these extra settings and discusses how you can use them in your day-to-day routine. Ill start this chapter by showing you the top five settings people use the most.

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Backmatter

Titel: Taking Your iPhone to the Max, iOS 5 Edition
verfasst von: Michael Grothaus
Steve Sande
Erica Sadun
Copyright-Jahr: 2011
Verlag: Apress
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4302-3582-8
Print ISBN: 978-1-4302-3581-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3582-8

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