iPhone® For Dummies®, 4th Edition

Chapter 10. Going On a Mobile Safari

In This Chapter

• Surfing the Net

• Opening and displaying Web pages

• Using a wireless network

• Having fun with links, bookmarks, and history lists

• Securing Safari

"The Internet in your pocket."

That's what Apple promised the iPhone would bring to the public when the product was announced in January 2007. Steve Jobs & Co. have come tantalizingly close to delivering on that pledge.

For years, the cell phone industry offered a watered-down mobile version of the Internet, but their approaches typically fell far short of what people had come to experience while sitting in front of a computer.

Apple, however, has managed for the most part to replicate the real-deal Internet with the iPhone. Web pages look like Web pages on a Windows PC or Mac, right down to swanky graphics and pictures — and at least some video.

In this chapter, you find out how to navigate through cyberspace on your iPhone.

Note

Living on the EDGE

You can't typically make or receive phone calls on a wireless phone without tapping into a cellular network. And, you can't prowl the virtual corridors of cyberspace (or send e-mail) on a mobile phone without accessing a wireless data network. In the United States, the iPhone works with Wi-Fi, AT&6;T EDGE, and AT&T 3G. (It works also with another wireless technology, Bluetooth, but that serves a different purpose and is addressed in Chapter 13.)

The iPhone automatically ...