Home Screen

Press the Home button at any time to go to the Home screen, which contains your iPhone applications. Tap any application icon to get started.

iPhone Applications

The following applications are included with iPhone:

 

Make calls, with quick access to recent callers, favorites, and all your contacts. Dial

 

manually using the numeric keypad. Or just use voice dialing. Visual voicemail presents

Phone

a list of your voicemail messages. Just tap to listen to any message you want, in any

order you want.

 

 

 

 

iPhone works with MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, and many of the most popular email

 

systems—including Yahoo! Mail, Google email, and AOL—as well as most industry-

Mail

standard POP3 and IMAP email systems. View PDFs and other attachments within Mail.

Save attached photos and graphics to your Camera Roll album.

 

 

 

 

Browse websites over a cellular data network or over Wi-Fi. Rotate iPhone sideways

 

for widescreen viewing. Double-tap to zoom in or out—Safari automatically fits the

Safari

webpage column to the iPhone screen for easy reading. Open multiple pages. Sync

bookmarks with Safari or Microsoft Internet Explorer on your computer. Add Safari web

 

 

clips to the Home screen for fast access to favorite websites. Save images from websites

 

to your Photo Library.

 

 

 

Listen to your songs, audiobooks, and podcasts. Create on-the-go playlists, or use

 

Genius to create playlists for you. Listen to Genius Mixes of songs from your library.

iPod

Watch movies and video podcasts in widescreen.

 

 

 

 

Send and receive SMS text messages. Conversations are saved in an iChat-like

 

presentation, so you can see a history of messages you’ve sent and received. Send

Messages

photos, video clips (iPhone 3GS only), contact information, and voice memos to MMS

devices (iPhone 3G or later).

 

 

 

 

View and search your MobileMe, iCal, Microsoft Entourage, Microsoft Outlook, or

 

Microsoft Exchange calendars. Enter events on iPhone and they get synced back to the

Calendar

calendar on your computer. Subscribe to calendars. Set alerts to remind you of events,

appointments, and deadlines.

 

 

 

 

View photos and videos (iPhone 3GS only) you’ve taken with iPhone, received in Mail or

 

MMS (iPhone 3GS only) messages, or synced from your computer’s photo application.

Photos

(Video syncing on Macs only.) View them in portrait or landscape orientation. Zoom

in on photos for a closer look. Watch a slideshow. Email photos and videos, send them

 

 

in MMS messages (iPhone 3G or later), or publish them to MobileMe galleries. Assign

 

images to contacts, and use them as wallpaper.

 

 

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