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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition
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iPhone: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition

by David Pogue
December 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
544 pages
14h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Introduction

How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is “use statistics”—100 million sold, 500,000 downloadable programs on the iPhone App Store, 15 billion downloads…. Trouble is, those statistics get stale almost before you’ve finished typing them.

Maybe it’s better to talk about the aftermath. How since the iPhone came along, cell carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and so on) have opened up the calcified, conservative way they used to consider new cellphone designs. How every phone and its brother now have a touchscreen. How BlackBerry, Google (Android) phones, and Windows 7 phones all have their own app stores. How, in essence, everybody wants to be the iPhone.

The thing is, they’ll never quite catch up technologically, because Apple is always moving, too. In October 2011, for example, it introduced the fifth iPhone model, the iPhone 4S. It looks identical to the previous model, the iPhone 4—but the guts are quite a bit different. The processor is much faster, the camera is much better, and there’s speech recognition. Not just dictation—you can actually tell the phone what to do.

More importantly, there’s a new, free version of the iPhone’s software, called iOS 5. (Why not “iPhone OS” anymore? Because the same operating system runs on the iPad and the iPod Touch. It’s not just for iPhones anymore, and saying “the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch OS” takes too long.)

iOS 5 adds all kinds of new features people have been pining for: direct access to the ...

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