Chapter 2

Interacting with Your New iPhone

If your previous mobile phones have not been iPhones, then you're in for a treat. Your iPhone introduces a revolutionary new way to interact. It responds to the language of your touch. The vocabulary of touch includes taps, drags, pinches, and flicks. With these motions, you control your iPhone as easily as using a mouse with your personal computer.

There's more to those touch gestures than just single-finger interactions; the iPhone offers Multi-Touch technology. That means the iPhone can recognize and respond to more than one touch at a time. In this chapter, you're about to discover all of the different ways that you can interact with your iPhone—zooming in and out of maps and photos, using the iPhone's ...

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