Chapter 3. The iPhone as Message Center

The iPhone has large capabilities in terms of Internet use. This often tends to make people forget that the iPhone is also a device for making phone calls. During the course of this book, you will see that the iPhone indeed makes a great cell phone. But the aspect of Internet access is still very important in our age of the mobile Web. And some people like to use the iPhone as a message center, a task it’s also perfectly suited for.

Mail: The iPhone’s Mail Client

Fortunately, the times are over when you had to awkwardly download your e-mails from an Internet browser via a web interface. Nowadays a good smartphone has an application that makes sending and receiving e-mails very comfortable. You will quickly ...

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