Tapping Tricks for Your iPhone




05.01.09






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Tap the Status bar at the top of the screen (where the clock usually is) to return instantly to the top of long pages.

Hold a finger on a link in Safari to get a pop-up saying where the link goes.

Tap the bottom left or right corner to scroll left or right.

Tap with two fingers to zoom out in Maps.

Drag inside text boxes with two fingers to scroll without scrolling the whole page.

Double-click the Power/Lock button to send incoming calls to your voice mail.

Double-click the Home button in any app to bring up the iPod controls.

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application HearPlanet plays audio tracks of Wikipedia articles based on points of interest surrounding your current location, turning your iPhone or iPod touch into an audio tour guide.

HearPlanet uses your iPhone's location awareness to find places of interest near you. When you choose a topic, HearPlanet loads up a screen with both the text and audio of the Wikipedia article in question. If your iPhone or iPod touch can't find you, HearPlanet offers a search option in which you can enter a search topic and location. That means that even if you don't want the audio tour guide, you can still use HearPlanet to listen to Wikipedia articles on the go—if you don't mind a little robot voice, that is.

iCall for the iPhone ^beta


iCall for the iPhone? It's already working and is coming soon to your iPhone. We think you'll find it as revolutionary as we do.



1. Make and receive calls over WiFi
2. Transfer inbound calls from a regular cell call to WiFi instantly and seamlessly - save your expensive minutes
3. Access your same address book
4. Customize your voicemail options

Outline of the review

Our iPhone review is rather large because we unleashed three (and a half) reviewers on it, all coming from different backgrounds. We pooled our thoughts together, had a few fistfights and a squabble or two ("Keyboard sucks!" "Does not!"), and now present to you our full review. Check out the outline beforehand, or just jump on in.

Visto, a mobile e-mail service provider, this quarter will make available its Visto Mobile service for iPhones, so users can access enterprise e-mail systems, including Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino. The iPhone comes with an HTML client that fetches messages in the background from most POP 3 and IMAP services. Visto Mobile will use IMAP to deliver business e-mail to the iPhone, says Joyce Kim, VP of marketing at Visto.

Device management company Synchronica last week said it will support over-the-air synchronization between Exchange and the iPhone. Using Synchronica's Mobile Gateway 3.0, service providers can offer business users the option of receiving corporate e-mail on their iPhones without having to ask an IT manager to open the firewall or install additional software. Mobile Gateway uses Microsoft's Outlook Web Access to retrieve e-mail from Exchange servers and deliver it to the iPhone's e-mail client.

Also last week, NetSuite announced SuitePhone, a rebranded version of its flagship on-demand software that lets customers access ERP, CRM, and e-commerce apps from iPhones. SuitePhone works with Apple's Safari browser, bringing NetSuite's interface of drop-down menus and in-line editing to the iPhone.

While the future may not turn out quite to be the dystopian vision I outline above, there’s a juggernaut of momentum toward convergence—the combination of different kinds of services into one lump, one bill, and one company offering it. The iPhone, announced by Steve Jobs in January and shipping this June, fits neatly into the new AT&T’s strategy in that regard.

Convergence as a broad term describes how voice and video are becoming just one more kind of data service, not unique services that need separate wires and equipment that’s handled differently than straight broadband. With a single cable to your home—whether phone wire, coaxial cable, or a fiber-optic strand—you can already get what formerly required three unique connections, if not more.

Let’s walk through what AT&T is attempting, what other U.S. and international firms have already deployed, and where the iPhone fits in.

But it's one thing to try to muscle customers; it's another to try to muscle big guys like Verizon and Cingular, which are big, cash-rich, hard-nosed operators. As I mentioned in a previous blog, Apple's demands were so significant that Cingular's board had to approve the deal, something that's highly unlikely to occur when any other phone is adopted by the carrier.

Clearly Cingular is trying to buy market share with iPhone -- it's paying big-time to grab customers away from Verizon Wireless, Sprint and other carriers. In the cellular business, the cost of acquiring customers is a key metric used to determine a company's financial success. Expect Cingular's acquisition costs to spike after iPhone is released.