AT&T Announces Functionality For The iPhone
iPhone arrives on June 29. iPhone features an amazing mobile phone, is the best iPod ever created, and puts the Internet in your pocket with desktop–class email, web browsing, searching, and maps. And iPhone makes it all easy to use with its revolutionary multi-touch user interface. iPhone syncs with your PC or Mac just like an iPod, so organizing your content now will help you start calling, texting, emailing, surfing, listening, and watching even faster when you get your iPhone. Here are a few suggestions to help you get ready:
Making a call with iPhone is as simple as tapping a name. You won’t need to re-enter all your contacts because iPhone syncs with the address book you already use on your computer—Address Book or Entourage on a Mac, or Outlook or Outlook Express on a PC. If you keep your contacts on the web using Yahoo! Address Book, iPhone can sync with them, too. To get ready for iPhone, organize your contacts in one of these applications and make sure they’re up to date with the latest phone numbers and email addresses. If you don’t have contacts on your computer, don’t worry. You can still enter them directly into iPhone.
Using its built-in calendar, iPhone lets you check your appointments with the flick of a finger. iPhone uses iTunes to sync with the calendar application you already use on your computer—iCal or Entourage on the Mac, or Outlook on a PC—just like it does with your contacts. If you don’t already use one of these applications to manage your appointments, now is a great time to start, so you’ll be ready to sync when your iPhone arrives. If you choose not to use a calendar program, that’s OK. You’ll be able to enter appointments directly into your iPhone calendar.
iPhone is the first phone to come with a desktop–class email application. So now your phone can display rich HTML email with graphics and photos alongside the text. iPhone will even fetch your latest email every time you open the application and automatically retrieve your email on a set schedule, just like a computer does. iPhone works with the most popular email systems—including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, and .Mac Mail. If you’re not already using one of these services, now would be a great time to get an account. iTunes will make email setup on the iPhone a breeze by automatically syncing the settings from email accounts stored in Mail on a Mac or Outlook on a PC. Don’t worry if you’re not on one of these email services; iPhone also works with almost any industry-standard POP3 and IMAP email system.
iPhone has a 2-megapixel camera and a gorgeous 3.5–inch display, so it’s a great way to enjoy and show off your digital photos. iPhone uses iTunes to sync your photos from iPhoto on a Mac or Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop Album, or any picture folder on a PC. You can carry thousands of photos on iPhone, but you can start by creating an album or two with 50 to 100 of your favorite photos, so that when you first sync your iPhone, you’ll be ready to quickly show off some of your best shots.
iPhone is the best iPod ever. Its beautiful, 3.5–inch widescreen display allows you to easily enjoy the music, TV shows, and movies you have in your iTunes library. If you already use iTunes, you can start getting ready for iPhone by creating a playlist of a few hundred of your favorite songs. If you don’t have iTunes, now is a good time to download it and start a music and video library. That way, when you sync your iPhone with iTunes, you’ll be able to take your favorite music, as well as a few of your TV shows and movies, with you wherever you go.
To set up your iPhone, you’ll need an account with Apple’s iTunes Store. If you already have an iTunes account, make sure you know your account name and password. If you don’t have an account, you should set one up now to save time later. To set up an account, launch iTunes, select the iTunes Store, and click the “Sign In” button in the upper right corner of iTunes. Sign in and you’re ready to go.
June 13th, 2007 at 9:54 am
It is a tragedy that iPhone will not be available in my part of the world for the time being. So, we will have to be satisfied with reading all the reviews and seeing all the pictures.
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I hate to say it but its not the best iPod ever because it only comes in 4 and 8 gig models which can’t hold my library as touted by the demo by Apple. I consider the best iPod ever to be the 60 gig version. I think I will wait for that.
June 23rd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
The iPhone will be the best iPod ever. Capacity is one thing, feature rich capability is, yet, still another.
Current iPods will go the way of the Sony Walkman. An amazing trailblazer… but eventually surpassed with technology. IPhone will rule for the next several years.
July 5th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I love love love the iPhone and want to get one but need to find out one thing first which from reading everything online am not able to find out. I run a PR firm and have over 3200 contacts in my address book. When I went into the ATT / Cingular store and asked if there was a way of searching through the contacts with a search tool vs. scrolling down the list of these contacts with my finger I was told that there wasn’t. I want to confirm that this is so, as I need to search for company names, names of people in my book and get the information quickly. I am about to buy a Palm or a Blackberry to do this if the iphone cannot. Please let me know as it is a major issue for me. Thanks. I want to be sure that the people at the ATT store were correct.
Do know that I use an MacPro running Parallels and it rocks.