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About. Tapping this item opens a page for the statistics nut. Here you<br />

can find out how many songs, videos, and photos your <strong>iPhone</strong> holds;<br />

how much storage your <strong>iPhone</strong> has, and how much of it you’ve used;<br />

and super-techie details like the <strong>iPhone</strong>’s software and firmware versions,<br />

serial number, model, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth addresses, and so on.<br />

And when you’re really bored, you can even tap Legal to open up some<br />

light reading, in the form of a 50-screen-tall list of copyright notices and<br />

disclaimers.<br />

Date & Time. At the top of this screen, you’ll see an option to turn on<br />

“24-hour time,” also known as military time, in which you see “1700”<br />

instead of “5:00 p.m.” (You’ll see this change everywhere times appear,<br />

including at the top edge of the screen.)<br />

“Set Automatically” refers to the <strong>iPhone</strong>’s built-in clock. If this item is<br />

turned on, then the <strong>iPhone</strong> finds out what time it is from an atomic clock<br />

out on the Internet. If not, then you have to set the clock yourself. (Turning<br />

this option off makes two more rows of controls appear automatically:<br />

one for your time zone and a “number spinner” so you can set the<br />

clock.)<br />

As for the Calendar item, here’s a mind-teaser for you world travelers. If<br />

an important event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. New York time, and you’re<br />

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