iPhone® 4 Portable Genius

Chapter 9. Can I Use My iPhone to Manage Contacts And Appointments?

The iPhone has never been about just the technology. Yes, it looks stylish, has enough bells and whistles to cause deafness, and it just works, but iPhone users don't know or care about things like antennas and flash drives and memory chips and whatever else Apple somehow managed to cram into that tiny case. These things don't matter because the iPhone has always been about helping you get things done and helping you make your life better, more creative, and more efficient. And as you see in this chapter, your iPhone can also go a long way toward making your life — particularly your contacts and your calendar — more organized.

• Managing Your Contacts 208

• Tracking Your Appointments 220

Managing Your Contacts

One of the paradoxes of modern life is that as your contact information becomes more important, you store less and less of that information in the easiest database system of them all — your memory. That is, instead of memorizing phone numbers like you used to, you now store your contact info electronically. When you think about it, this isn't exactly surprising because it's not just a landline number that you have to remember for each person; it might also be a cell number, an instant messaging handle, an e-mail address, a Web site address, a physical address, and more. That's a lot to remember, so it makes sense to ...