How to use iPhone

How to dial a number from iPhone
Touching your phone button on the bottom of its Home screen shows up numerous useful options to make a new call: such as Recent, Contacts, Keypad and Favorites. RECENT: This is where all outgoing and incoming calls are collected. This screen provides two buttons- All calls or Missed calls, the All button will show up the name that’s if you have it in your contacts or the phone number for outgoing or incoming calls. If you receive calls from one person in a short time iPhone will show how many calls next to the contacts entry- and higher numbers may show a sense of importance. Missed calls come listed in the color red, its Missed key filters out your calls taken or made, displaying the calls you missed only. When you click on a blue arrow which is next to the person from the list here you will find more details if it was an outgoing or incoming call also the time and date every call that was logged. This panel will provide you with the state or city of where the call has originated if you don’t have the contact in your Address Book and if just the number appears. Click on the number or name in your Recent list if you like to call the person back. CONTACTS: the contacts button provides you access to every contact you have in your phone.

iPhone touch screen keypad
If a number you like to call is not in the contacts list then tap on your screen button to bring up the on-screen keypad. After clicking the number you able to dial an add-contact button on the left of its Call button to have the number saved for future usage.

Favorites
This part is a user-defined listing of the most frequently dialed numbers-equivalent to iphones speed dialing. To designate the favorite, click on plus sign which is on the top on the Favorite screen. The contacts list will come up, and then select a contact, now tap on home, work or mobile number to include that number as your favorites. More than one number can be added per person and each numbers comes up in the favorite as a separate entry. When at the Favorites screen, click on the person’s name if you want to dial the number. Click the blue arrow which is next to name this will allow you to see a contacts complete info screen, and if you choose to remove a contact from that favorite list, merely press on the edit button thereafter tap the minus sign which is next to the name. Regrettably, it’s not going to be possible to reschedule favorites in that list.

The iPhone allows you to answer an initiate calls as easy as pie. This is one of the many reasons that the iPhone is considered one of the best smartphones available.  There are loads you are able to do whilst on your phone such as manage numerous calls and locate helpful information. If you have missed any calls- iPhone has a Visual Voicemail feature to retrieve the calls.

Click on Safari icon at the home screen, here a tiny version of Apple’s web browser will appear. On top of Safari Window you will find the address bar that has two icons on each side, at the left you have a plus sign [+] this is for adding the present page to the list of your bookmarks, at your right is a circular arrow, this is to reload the present page. Below is the toolbar with forward and back arrows, also two icons, one is to open multiple pages (this is a stack of pages) and one is for bookmarks (this is the book icon) to visit any web page, click within the address bar on the top of the Window. From below the iPhones screen the keyboard slides up, as you start to type a URL, Safari will display the list of the sites that are on your bookmarks or in the history which match; click on any one item in that list to have that page opened. Otherwise, you may type the whole URL then click on GO. When entering URLs, your Safari keyboard offers helpful keys for inserting backlash (/), .com suffix and period (.). When entering text at the web page or the search engine, the keyboard switches back to standard layout. When the page starts to load this circular arrow turns to an X. Click the X if you want to have the loading process stopped- handy when you accidentally choose the incorrect site or if the site is taking to long to load.

While scrolling to the bottom of the page, your address bar disappears from the screen. If you need to enter another web address, just click on status bar on the screen that would bring back your address bar. You able to edit your URL that’s already at its address field just click it, or quickly have the address field cleared by clicking the X button, that’s on the right of your address bar, and if you prefer searching the web, then click within your search field which appears at the bottom of address bar. First type a search query there after click on Google key, by default your iPhone uses Google to make web searches, however you are able to change the default to Yahoo. To change this just click on your Settings button which is on home screen, then select Safari then search engine, next click on Yahoo.

This is because the iPhone has the ability to perform a huge number of roles that, until now, needed many gadgets to do them.  So instead of spending a lot of money on a huge number of gadgets, and not forgetting pockets to fir them all in, you can now simply get an iPhone and get them all in one cheap, simple and easy to carry package.

The iPhone’s ‘Gadgets’

So what gadgets does the iPhone do the job of?

• MP3 player. The iPhone can be directly linked to the massive iTunes market which gives access to a massive selection of songs, podcasts and much more.  The iPhone also contains a number of the technology pieces used in the iPod and as such is a very powerful piece of software and hardware that is as good as any MP3 player on the market.

• Video player. Online video technology is easily integrated into the iPhone and the huge touch screen allows for a wonderful viewing portal.  Video can also be purchased from iTunes, including episodes of top shows such as CSI and Bones.

• PDA. PDA’s are designed to help your organise your day and get work done on the move… the iPhone is the ultimate PDA.  With powerful diary functionality the iPhone allows such things as to do lists, reminders and more to be created to help keep yourself organised.

• Email client. These days keeping up with your email is vital, the world is too fast moving to be able to afford missing emails.  Which is why the iPhone is such a useful email client.  It can access most email servers, including the very popular Microsoft exchange servers, as well as allowing complete access to web based emails such as Hotmail and Gmail.

• Games machine. There are a vast number of games available for the iPhone and, with the latest update in processing power, the phone can be used as a powerful hand-held gaming device capable of holding it’s own against the likes of the Nintendo DS.

Of course there are many more gadgets that the iPhone can take the place of, often thanks to the functionality aspect of the numerous applications that you can add to the phone.  Software exists to use your iPhone as a foreign currency exchange calculator, a Dictaphone, a camera, a video camera, and much, much more.

The ability for the iPhone to function as all these gadgets should never be overlooked when you are considering a new phone.  Too many gadgets can be expensive and difficult to manage, having them all in one place, as you can do with an iPhone, is a very useful thing to have indeed.

For additional accounts to the four service providers, you’ll have to confirm with your ISP to check if it’s supported by SSL connections. But if the ISP doesn’t offer you with a secure option, then you can work through this problem by simply setting the e-mail account to copy all incoming messages or forward automatically to secure service such as Hushmail (www.hushmail.com). Thereafter you can have a mail account set on you iPhone in order to retrieve your e-mails from Hushmail with complete confidence.

How to browse web securely on your iPhone
Even though Apple offers a few options meant for protecting different kinds of web traffic, regrettable not any of them are perfect. Set up secure web proxies one of the option is to use a secure web proxy service, like Secure-Tunnel (www.secure-tunnel.com). This secure proxy creates a SSL connection among the Secure-Tunnel’s servers and your browser representation your session’s unreachable to local Wi-Fi network snoopers. When you want to setup a secure proxy for your web access, and then go to your settings: Network: Wi-Fi. Regrettably, the setting only works on a per-connection basis. You will need to reenter the identical proxy data drearily every single time you have to connect to different networks, making it a somewhat impractical solution with most users. Use a VPN Another option you can use is a VPN. VPNs cover every data leaving an entering operating system on the network this includes, web data, widget communications and e-mail in a strong encryption.

Two popular software are supported by Apple for VPN client: these two are L2TP and PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol), frequently known as IPsec (IP Security) over L2TP (Level 2 Tunneling Protocol).regrettably, if the company requires you to the use your ISP this uses an unique port for the secure e-mail, you will be able to set the iPhone’s Mail program to accommodate this (Port numbers just like numbered cubbies in the mailroom: every cubby corresponds with a particular service, such as, FTP, chat or e-mail.) To have your account set up, click on Settings the Mail and Other. Instead of entering only a mail server address for example, pop.gmail.com, obtain the port number and a colon, like this: pop.gmail.com:995.

When opening one page from the bookmark list, click on bookmarks icon in toolbar at the bottom. Select any bookmark to have it opened, or click a folder if you like to browse the bookmarks. The back-arrow button that’s at the upper left brings you up a level at the bookmarks hierarchy.
You also able to browse the Safari history through its Bookmark screen, once you tapped the bookmark icon, then move at the highest level on the bookmark list. Here you will find the History folder. Simply click on this folder here you see the list of recent Web pages you have visited. You won’t be able to delete single sites from the history page but you are able to delete the entire list at once by clicking on its Clear button.

How to manage bookmarks
When you on-the-go, you may use iPhones Bookmarks screen if you want to delete, edit, rename or reorganize you bookmarks. Click on Edit button on the bottom at Bookmarks screen when you want to enter the editing mode. Here are able to delete any folder or bookmark- except the Bookmarks Bar, Bookmarks Menu and History folders- by clicking the minus sign (-)  which is next to the name. if you wish to edit any URL tap on the bookmark`s title which is on edit screen. Your resulting screen will let you relocate this bookmark to any new folder, and if you like to move the bookmark to lower or higher position in its present folder – for an example, put sites most visited right at the top of the list- just menu icon on the right side of bookmark`s title in your new location. (Regrettably you can not drag the bookmark into the folder the same way) new folders can be created for any future bookmarks just by clicking the New Folder key. Even though the iPhone provides you with most tools you will need for managing the bookmarks on-the-go, a much easier option will be to use Web Browser on PC or your Mac to organize or edit them; iTunes allows you to sync bookmarks on a desktop version, Internet Explorer on Windows, and Safari on the Mac. To have this set up, simply plug the iPhone to the computer then open your iPhone settings screen at iTunes.

Messages which appear within short interval come grouped together within a single time frame showing what time back-and-forth started, and if considerable time passes since your last message in your conversation, a new message receives another time stamp. Regrettably, not like most modern cell-phones, Text does not support MMS, this is a variant type of SMS which allows you to send media file and photos via text messages. Nonetheless, if anyone sends you their phone number or a URL, you will be able click on those items and use it immediately. When you tap on any URL it will open a link in Maps, Mails or Safari, depends on what type link, while clicking a phone number shall call that number. Tap the little arrow button that’s next to a message and you will reveal an option to add the number or link to an existing or new contact, or, a cell-phone number, sending new SMS message at that number. Here we get to the facts the iPhone lacks in the copy and paste feature. To have another message send to that same person click within text field below the window. Text preserves the entire SMS conversation, which you have with that other person on one screen. That conversation window will be kept above multiple conversations, making it possible to see all messages from and to each recipient, yet they are days, months or weeks apart. This approach makes it more useful than any SMS functionality for most phones that stores every message separately. When you decide that you prefer a live chat, then simply tap the Call key on the top on your conversation screen, here you call the person on the number you used to SMS. If you like to call another number or send an e-mail, click the Contacts info key and access their contact information.

About
This screen has the name of the phone, the number of videos, songs, photos and the name of the network you using on your iPhone.

Auto-lock
After a period of time the phone screen locks to reactivate the phone press home button. The AUTO-LOCK screen allows you to set after how many minutes you like the phone to go off.

Passcode lock
You can set a four-digit code on your phone this way only you are able to use the phone. You are also able to change the passcode as you feel fit, you have an option to display the preview of SMS messages received while the phone is locked.

How to change your settings
You will be able to access the program selection from its settings screen, this accessible via the home screen. Here you will also be able to change the system wide settings like the brightness, wallpaper and sound. At the phones setting screen here you will also find the option to change to Airplane Mode. The setting screen is very crowded with 12 different entries on the main screen. Here is what each setting does. If you travel a lot then this a very important feature when boarding a plane, Airplane Mode turns off all the phones wireless capabilities such as EDGE, Wi-Fi, making and receiving calls and all Bluetooth communication. Once the phone is in Airplane Mode you won’t be able to use any functions on the phone except for iPod functions, and download and read any e-mail or SMS messages. If you already connected to the Wi-Fi network the networks name will be on right of the screen by tapping the arrow on the screen you will access the network. This shows you for how long you used the iPhone also how long the phone was on standby from the last time it was recharged. The phone also displays EDGE network data and all call times. Here you are able to change the Vibrate mode off and on, change ringtones and alerts to suite you. You can also put you keyboard on mute and change the volume of your ringtones, from the volume button at the side of the phone on the on-screen slider. The wallpaper will appear when you receive a call or when the phone is locked. You can use a picture of your choice or you able to choose from Apples bundle patterns or photos or even something you sync from your computer.

SIM-CARD SLOT
Such as all current GMS phones, this iPhone also uses a SIM card. At the top of your phone you will find a little slot for the SIM card. The iPhone comes preinstalled with the SIM card and activates through iTune. Unfortunately you won’’t be able to use your old phone SIM card in the iPhone it won’t work because the iPhone SIM card has new and special characteristic which are not in other SIM cards.

OFF/ON AND WAKE/SLEEP SWITCH
Rounding on the top is the on/off and sleep/wake button, this switch has four functions. You can press the swish briefly this will lock your screen, but the phone can still play music and receive calls, just the screen will be off. If you press this button again you will unlock or wake up the iPhone, to shut the phone off completely then hold down the button for some seconds. Once the phone is shut down it won’t play music, ring or anything else. To reactivate the phone you just have to press the button again.