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A Tale of Three Networks The iPhone 3G can get onto the Internet using any of three methods—three kinds of wireless networks. Which kind you’re on makes a huge difference to your iPhone experience; there’s nothing worse than having to wait until the next ice age for some Web page to arrive when you need the information now. Here they are, listed from slowest to fastest. • AT&T’s EDGE cellular network. Your iPhone can connect to the data over the same airwaves that carry your voice, thanks to AT&T’s EDGE cellular data network. The good part is that it’s almost everywhere; your iPhone can get online almost anywhere you can make a phone call. The bad news is that EDGE is slow. Dog slow—sometimes dial-up slow. Finding a faster way was Apple’s #1 priority when it designed its second iPhone. You can’t be on a phone call while you’re online using EDGE, either. • AT&T’s 3G cellular network. For the last several years, cellphone companies have quietly been building high-speed cellular data networks— so-called 3G networks. (3G stands for “third generation.” The ancient analog cellphones were the first generation; EDGE-type networks were the second.) Geeks refer to AT&T’s 3G network standard by its official name: HSDPA, for High-Speed Download Packet Access. Baby, when you’ re on 3G, the iPhone is awesome. Web pages that take 2 minutes to appear using EDGE show up in about 20 seconds when you’re on 3G. Email downloads much faster, especially when there are attachments involved. Voice calls sound better, too, even when the signal strength is very low, since the iPhone’s 3G radio can communicate with multiple towers at once. Oh, and you can talk on the phone and use the Internet simultaneously, which can be very handy indeed. 3G is not all sunshine and bunnies, however; it has two huge downsides. First: coverage. In an attempt to serve the most people with the least effort, cell companies always bring 3G service to the big cities first. AT&T’s 3G coverage is available in about 350 U.S. cities, which is a good start. But that still leaves most of the country, including ten entire states, without any 3G coverage at all. Whenever you’re outside of the blue chicken pox on the AT&T coverage map, your iPhone falls back to the old EDGE speeds. 114 Chapter 6
(3G is a much bigger deal, and its installation is much further along, outside the United States.) The second big problem with 3G is that, to receive its signal, a phone’s circuitry uses a lot of power. That’s why the iPhone 3G gets only half the talk time of the original iPhone (5 hours instead of 10). • Wi-Fi hot spots. Wi-Fi, known to geeks as 802.11 and to Apple fans as AirPort, is the fastest of all. It’s wireless networking, the same technology that lets laptops the world over get online at high speed in any Wi-Fi hot spot. Hot spots are everywhere these days: in homes, offices, coffee shops (notably Starbucks), hotels, airports, and thousands of other places. Unfortunately, a hot spot is an invisible bubble about 300 feet across; once you wander out of it, you’re off the Internet. So Wi-Fi is for people who are sitting still. At www.jiwire.com, you can type an address or a city and find out exactly where to find the closest Wi-Fi hot spots. Or, quicker yet: Open Maps on your iPhone and type in, for example, wifi austin tx or wifi 06902. Pushpins on the map show you the closest Wi-Fi hot spots. When you’re in a Wi-Fi hot spot, your iPhone has a very fast connection to the Internet, as though it’s connected to a cable modem or DSL. And when you’re online this way, you can make phone calls and surf the Getting Online 115
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iPhone The Missing Manual
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The Missing Credits David Pogue (au
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Introduction In the first year of t
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• Part 3, The iPhone Online, is a
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1 The Guided Tour If you’d never
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If you change your mind about turni
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Apple thinks that SIM cards are gee
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see the 3 logo instead, get psyched
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To set this up, you must first visi
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There’s only one payoff for knowi
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Well, OK—a Q-tip damp with saline
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That’s when you place two fingers
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• Backspace ( V). This key actual
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type fathe, the suggestion says fat
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➊ Touch the „ key, but don’t
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choice of the Pinyin input method (
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a lightning bolt to let you know th
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You can spread your new programs’
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2 Phone Calls As you probably know,
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Tap a name or number to dial. Or ta
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For details on choosing a ring soun
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Not Answering Calls And what if you
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Add Call (Conference Calling) The i
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If a call comes in while you’re a
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➋ Tap the First Last box. The ons
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➑ Tap Save. Repeat steps 5 and 6
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You return to the screens described
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• From the Recents list. Tap the
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color-coding and separate listings
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Overseas Calling The iPhone is a qu
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3 Fancy Phone Tricks Once you’ve
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this option. It’s a prerecorded,
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• Greeting. Tap this button (uppe
Page 77 and 78: • As with email, the recipient do
Page 79 and 80: The Text List What’s cool is that
Page 81 and 82: Free Text Messaging If you think yo
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Page 85 and 86: • When you’re overseas, you can
Page 87 and 88: ➌ Tap the earpiece’s name. Type
Page 89 and 90: 4 Music and Video Of the iPhone’s
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Page 95 and 96: So what, exactly, is Cover Flow for
Page 97 and 98: Controlling Playback (Music) Once y
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Page 103 and 104: Fortunately, if this effect winds u
Page 105 and 106: When you’re finished, tap Done. Y
Page 107 and 108: 5 Photos and Camera This is a short
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Page 111 and 112: Once you’ve spread a photo bigger
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Page 117 and 118: Headshots for Contacts If you’re
Page 119 and 120: Reviewing Your Photos If you do wan
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Page 131 and 132: Silencing the “Want to Join?” M
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Page 135 and 136: 7 The Web The Web on the iPhone loo
Page 137 and 138: • Address bar. This empty white b
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Page 145 and 146: Here’s a site worth bookmarking:
Page 147 and 148: You can turn a part of a Web page i
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Page 159 and 160: News Readers Keep up with the world
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➊ In the “To:” field, type th
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➍ Type the topic of the message i
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➊ Sign up for a free Gmail accoun
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Choosing None means you fit a lot m
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9 Maps and Apps Your Home screen co
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Working with Views By clicking one
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Use the keyboard (page 19) as usual
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The iPhone doesn’t play the sound
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You can’t create calendar categor
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time”). Scroll to the bottom of t
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Here, you’ll discover a basic tru
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week”; 1m, 3m, and 6m refer to nu
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And now you’ve got Google Maps on
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So for 5 years, 500 full-time Skyho
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• Best: The blue pushpin appears
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find. In a flash, Maps drops a red,
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• Recents are searches you’ve c
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• Green means the traffic is movi
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city. Depending on the city, you mi
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Alarm, Crickets, Digital, and Old P
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On most stopwatches, of course, the
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When you tap one of the operators (
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As you create more pages, the Notes
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10 Custom Ringtones Your iPhone com
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GarageBand Ringtones If you have a
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11 The App Store Shortly before the
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crash the iPhone (you return to the
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the kind of program, or the softwar
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Instead, over-10-meg files are avai
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shows, movies, and so on. The resul
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You can’t escape this cycle until
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Troubleshooting Apps Let’s face i
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Or go for Pandora or Last.fm instea
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12 iTunes for iPhoners Just in case
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Here’s the basic rule of using iT
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iTunes doesn’t have a monopoly on
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To explore podcasts, click Podcasts
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Instead of making an empty playlist
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Geeks’ Nook: File Formats It’s
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13 Syncing the iPhone When you get
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If you’re in a hurry, you can ski
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Also on the Summary tab, you’ll f
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extremely useful to have with you,
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Since Google Contacts are kept on t
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• In Windows, turn on Sync bookma
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Events that you add on the iPhone g
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you’ve assigned to your frequent
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➍ Click OK. The new Smart Playlis
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• In Windows. When you attach a c
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The Video Tab When it assumes the r
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Oh—and as noted in Chapter 11, if
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Conflicts If you use only one machi
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makes possible that multicomputer a
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Deleting a Backup File Want to dele
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14 MobileMe Ever since the original
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• Windows XP. MobileMe works with
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“Push” means never having to ch
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straight from the iPhone) are avail
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Where MobileMe Is Going MobileMe’
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15 The Corporate iPhone No, the cha
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Private Networking, as described at
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That’s a backslash, folks—the r
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On the following screen, start typi
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or whatever (if you’ve created gr
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When an invite (or several) is wait
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• Account; Password. Here’s you
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16 Settings Your iPhone is a full-b
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• Choose a Network. Here, you’l
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The iPhone always checks email each
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If Auto-Brightness is turned on, th
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ity, alas). Standby is how much tim
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• Passcode Lock. This feature wor
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The remaining four restrictions wor
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Set Automatically refers to the iPh
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The number you specify here also co
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Ordinarily, therefore, the iPhone s
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The AT&T My Account button at the b
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tain types of music and certain mus
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Appendixes
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A Setup and Signup In the first yea
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(The original iPhone, you may remem
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Don’t worry about that erasing bu
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B Accessories Like the iPods that c
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Cases Tucking your iPhone inside a
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• BlueAnt Supertooth 3 speakerpho
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Double-Dipping: iPod Accessories Th
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C Troubleshooting and Maintenance T
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• Erase the whole phone. From the
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• The USB factor. Trace the conne
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to pile up in your Sent, Drafts, an
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Problems That Aren’t Really Probl
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Sync the phone before it goes in fo
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Index .Mac accounts see MobileMe se
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address groups, 44 alphabet index,
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email, 149-172 finding your own pho
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Mute button, 39 N network icons, 10
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signatures (email), 167, 313 silenc
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Web browser (Safari), 121-148 addre
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