Chapter 1

Setting Up and Navigating Your iPhone

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Meeting your iPhone’s hardware

Bullet Setting up and activating your iPhone

Bullet Starting to use your iPhone

Bullet Locking and unlocking your iPhone

Bullet Powering down your iPhone

Congratulations on getting an iPhone! You’ve made a great choice.

In addition to being a first-rate cellular telephone, the iPhone is the best iPod ever built, a gorgeous widescreen video player, and a fantastic camera and camcorder system, not to mention a powerful internet communications device.

This chapter starts by making sure you know your way around your iPhone’s hardware. It then shows you how to activate the iPhone and set it up either manually or by picking up settings from your current iPhone or your iPad. You then learn to navigate the iPhone’s Home screen pages and dock, lock the iPhone when you’re not using it, and power it down for those rare occasions you don’t need to keep it running.

Meeting Your iPhone’s Hardware

On the outside, the iPhone’s ...

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