From the Introduction What is the iPhone? The better question is what isn’t the iPhone? It’s a cellphone, obviously. But it’s also a full-blown multimedia player, complete with a dazzling screen for watching videos. And it’s a sensational pocket internet viewer. It shows fully formatted email (with attachments, thank you) and displays entire web pages with fonts and design intact. It’s tricked out with a tilt sensor, a proximity sensor, a light sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, a gyroscope, a barometer, and that amazing multitouch screen. The iPhone is also the most used camera in the world. Furthermore, it’s a calendar, address book, calculator, alarm clock, ebook reader, stopwatch, podcast player, stock tracker, video viewer, traffic reporter, and weather forecaster. It even stands in for a flashlight, a tape measure, and—with the screen off—a pocket mirror. And don’t forget the App Store. Thanks to the 2.2 million add-on programs that await there, the iPhone can also be…everything else. A medical reference, a musical keyboard, a time tracker, a remote control, a sleep monitor, a tip calculator. Plus, the App Store is a portal to thousands of games, with smooth 3D graphics and tilt control. Calling this thing a phone is practically an insult. (Apple probably should have called it an “iPod,” but that name was taken.) About This Book You don’t get a printed manual when you buy an iPhone. Online, you can find an electronic manual, but it’s free of details, hacks, workarounds, tutorials, humor, and any acknowledgment of the iPhone’s flaws. You can’t easily mark your place, underline, or read it in the bathroom. Writing a book about the iPhone is a study in exasperation, because the darned thing is a moving target. Apple updates the iPhone’s software fairly often, piping in new features, bug fixes, speed-ups, and so on. The purpose of this book, then, is to serve as the manual that should have accompanied the iPhone. (If you have an iPhone 5s or an earlier model, then you really need one of this book’s previous editions. And if you do have an iPhone SE or later model, this book assumes that you’ve installed iOS 13.2 or later. Writing a book about the iPhone is a study in exasperation, because the darned thing is a moving target. Apple updates the iPhone’s software fairly often, piping in new features, bug fixes, speed-ups, and so on.
✔ Author(s): David Pogue
✔ Title: iPhone: The Missing Manual: The Book That Should Have Been in the Box
✔ Rating : 4.4 out of 5 base on (1236 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1492075140
✔ ISBN-13: 9781492075141
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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