As you'd expect of Apple, the iPhone is gorgeous. iPhone: The Missing Manual is a book as breathtaking as its subject. Teeming with high-quality color graphics, each custom designed page helps you accomplish specific tasks -- everything from Web browsing to watching videos. Written by New York Times columnist and Missing Manual series creator David Pogue, this book shows you how to get the most out of your new Apple iPhone. The name iPhone may be doing Apple a disservice. This machine is so packed with possibilities that the cellphone may actually be the least interesting part. The iPhone is at least three products merged into one: a phone, a wide-screen iPod and a wireless, touch-screen Internet communicator. The iPhone's beauty alone may be enough for you to dig for your credit cards, but its Mac OS X-based software makes it not so much a smartphone as something out of the film "Minority Report." The real magic, however, awaits when you browse the Web. You get to see the entire Web page on the iPhone's screen. All of this is cooked up with Apple's traditional secret sauce of simplicity, intelligence and whimsy. Written by New York Times columnist and Missing Manual series creator David Pogue, iPhone: The Missing Manual shows you everything they need to know to get the most out of your new Apple iPhone. Full of humor, tips, tricks, and surprises, this book teaches you how to extend iPhone's usefulness by exploiting its links to the Web as well as its connection to Macs or PCs; how to save money using Internet-based messages instead of phone calls; and how to fill the iPhone with TV shows and DVDs for free.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 83 Ratings

Make sure you've ordered the correct book. - 2009-01-13
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This book is very useful for finding shortcuts and neat things that you didn't know about your iPhone. Make sure you order the correct book though, I ordered the first gen iPhone book and I have the 3G iPhone. Oops! Both books are well writen and are very useful. If you would like to learn more about your iPhone or iPhone 3G, buy it.

Good start for 2G - 2009-08-02
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The book is very helpful went starting to use Iphone. Since it is the 1st Iphone MM book it doesn't cost as much as the newer MM books for 3G and 3G-S. Only few differences.

"A Must Have For The NEW iPhone User" - 2009-06-25
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As a newby to the iphone, buying this rather comprehensive book, easy to read, and completely handeling all questions. I highly reccommend that anyone contemplating buying or having completed the purchase of an iphone read this book as time permits and get your questions answered; remembering that calling 1-800-myiphon get you help that even this book can't answer.

Good and easy to use, now outdated - 2009-03-07
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Some reviewers have pointed out that an iPhone user could find all this information on the web. That's both true and beside the point: This book is easily accessed, fun to read and has all those other bookish virtues.
All this is a bit irrelevent now as the 3G phone (and book) has supplanted the one covered here.

IPhone Manual - 2009-02-01
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Great manual that Apple should have provided...super easy to read and lots of great tips I didn't know about

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