Paul McFedries - iPhone 4 Portable Genius

iPhone 4 Portable Genius, Verizon Edition

by Paul McFedries

iPhone 4 Portable Genius, Verizon Edition

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About the Author

Paul McFedries is a Mac expert and full-time technical writer. He has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 70 books to his credit, including the Wiley titles: iPad Portable Genius, Macs Portable Genius Second Edition, MacBook Air Portable Genius Second Edition, Switching to a Mac Portable Genius, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macs, and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. Pauls books have sold more than four million copies worldwide. He is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a Web site that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the English language. He invites you to drop by his Web site, www.mcfedries.com.

Credits

Senior Executive Editor

Stephanie McComb

Project Editor

Amanda Gambill

Technical Editor

John Smith

Senior Copy Editor

Kim Heusel

Editorial Director

Robyn Siesky

Editorial Manager

Rosemarie Graham

Vice President and Executive Group Publisher

Richard Swadley

Vice President and Executive Publisher

Barry Pruett

Business Manager

Amy Knies

Senior Marketing Manager

Sandy Smith

Project Coordinator

Katie Crocker

Graphics and Production Specialists

Jennifer Henry

Quality Control Technician

Laura Albert

Proofreading

Melissa D. Buddendeck

Indexing

Johnna VanHoose Dinse

Dedication

For Karen.

Acknowledgments

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style? and avoid How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?

James Thurber

Although I wouldnt call myself an old writer (not yet, anyway, although old is a state I aspire to), the older I get the more I appreciate editors. Partly its a selfish thing, because a good editor makes me look like a better writer than I am. But its also a wonderful thing, because a good editor has the wondrous ability to take a piece of writing and, with a few judicious taps of the keyboardparticularly the Delete key!turn it into a piece of prose thats tight, easy to read, and (perhaps most importantly for a technical book) easy to understand.

With this book, I had the immense pleasure of working with several editors who are masters of their craft. Amanda Gambill was the books Project Editor, and she not only polished my paragraphs to a high shine, but also had a near-infinite number of excellent suggestions for improving the overall structure and flow of the material, and was loads of fun to work with, to boot. Kim Heusel was the books Senior Copy Editor, and his attention to the books details not only raised the level of the book, but was nothing short of breathtaking. Finally, I would be remiss if I didnt also mention Terri Edwards for her excellent pinch-editing, and last (but by no means least), Acquisitions Editor Stephanie McComb, who asked me to write this book. To all of you: thank you so much for a fantastic job. Lets do it again real soon!

Introduction

The iPhone is a success not because tens of millions of them have been sold (or, I should say, not only because tens of millions of them have been sold; thats a lot of phones!), but because the iPhone, in just a couple of years has reached the status of a cultural icon. Even people who dont care much for gadgets in general and cell phones in particular know about the iPhone. And for those of us who do care about gadgets, the iPhone elicits a kind of technological longing that can only be satisfied in one way: by buying one (or, as in my case, by buying four).

Part of the iPhones iconic status comes from its gorgeous design and remarkable interface, which makes all the standard tasks surfing, e-mailing, texting, scheduling, playing easy and intuitive. But just as an attractive face or an easygoing manner can hide a personality of complexity and depth, so too does the iPhone hide many of its most useful and interesting features.