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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:
Phone
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
a list of your voicemail messages. Just tap to listen to any message you want, in any
order you want.
Mail
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-
standard POP3 and IMAP email systems. View PDFs and other attachments within Mail.
Save attached photos and graphics to your Camera Roll album.
Safari
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 ts the
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.
iPod
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.
Watch movies and video podcasts in widescreen.
Messages
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
photos, video clips (iPhone 3GS only), contact information, and voice memos to MMS
devices (iPhone 3G or later).
Calendar
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 on your computer. Subscribe to calendars. Set alerts to remind you of events,
appointments, and deadlines.
Photos
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.
(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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