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message rectangle. If you’re using the <strong>iPhone</strong> at the time, you can tap Ignore<br />

(to keep doing what you’re doing) or View (to open the message, as shown<br />

below).<br />

Otherwise, if the <strong>iPhone</strong> was asleep, it wakes up and displays the message<br />

right on its Unlock screen. You have to unlock the phone and then open the<br />

Text program manually. Tap the very first icon in the upper-left corner of the<br />

Home screen.<br />

The Text icon on the Home screen bears a little circled number “badge,” letting you<br />

know how many new text messages are waiting for you.<br />

Either way, the look of the Text program might surprise you. It resembles<br />

iChat, Apple’s chat program for Macintosh, in which in<strong>com</strong>ing text messages<br />

and your replies are displayed as though they’re cartoon speech balloons.<br />

To respond to the message, tap in the text box at the bottom of the screen. The<br />

<strong>iPhone</strong> keyboard appears. Type away (page 12), and then tap Send. Assuming<br />

your phone has cellular coverage, the message gets sent off immediately.<br />

And if your buddy replies, then the balloon-chat continues, scrolling up the<br />

screen.<br />

Chapter 3

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