Product Description

You don’t have to be a genius to use an iPhone 3G. But if you want to get the very most out of yours, put this savvy Portable Genius guide to work and start ramping up the pace. Want to e–mail attachments twice as fast? Talk and browse at the same time? Quickly locate the nearest coffee shop? Sync your iPhone 3G with multiple computers? You’ll find cool and useful Genius tips, full–color screenshots, and pages of easy–to–access shortcuts and tools that will save you loads of time and let you enjoy your new iPhone 3G to the max.

Portable GENIUS

Fun, hip, and straightforward, the new Portable Genius series gives forward–thinking Apple users useful information in handy, compact books that are easy to navigate and don’t skimp on the essentials. Collect the whole series and make the most of your Apple digital lifestyle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286935 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 267 pages

From the Back Cover
The Genius is in.

You don′t have to be a genius to use an iPhone 3G. But if you want to get the very most out of yours, put this savvy Portable Genius guide to work and start ramping up the pace. Want to e–mail attachments twice as fast? Talk and browse at the same time? Quickly locate the nearest coffee shop? Sync your iPhone 3G with multiple computers? You′ll find cool and useful Genius tips, full–color screenshots, and pages of easy–to–access shortcuts and tools that will save you loads of time and let you enjoy your new iPhone 3G to the max.

Portable GENIUS

Fun, hip, and straightforward, the new Portable Genius series gives forward–thinking Apple users useful information in handy, compact books that are easy to navigate and don′t skimp on the essentials. Collect the whole series and make the most of your Apple digital lifestyle.

About the Author
Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. He has written or cowritten more than four dozen books that have sold more than two million copies worldwide, including MySpace Visual Quick Tips and Computers Simplified, 7th Edition. Paul encourages all readers to drop by his Web site, www.mcfedries.com.

David Pabian is a freelance writer and Mac enthusiast. A self–taught Mac expert and early adopter, he can often be found troubleshooting all things Mac for his family and friends.

Customer Reviews

Hip guide to iPhone
Hey! This is cute. This is cool. This is not your usual dry old user guide. This is a guide written by guys wearing jeans, sneakers and black sweatshirts.
The acknowledgements are effusive. When you read, "I want to thank my entire family. I truly have the greatest family...." you know that these are American authors. But simply because the language is enthusiastic, doesn't make a bad book and this is anything but bad.
One in a series devoted to Apple's portable products all with the subtitle `Portable Genius', this is a guide to the latest version of the celebrated iPhone. It is written in a fun style epitomised by almost the first sentence: "Just tap the icon...and the application loads lickety-split".
The chapters are straightforward each dealing with a key aspect of the device: configuring, phoning, surfing, emailing, synchronising (using the neologism `syncing'), managing applications - such as the in-built iPod, video-player or camera - and helping organise one's life!
Does it do the job? While the youthful tone may sometimes irritate, it covers all the essentials plus many intriguing features that you don't get with the small leaflet that comes with the iPhone in its box. There are so many useful things hidden away on the iPhone that the average user needs a guide such as this to help him or her get the maximum benefit. As well as clear step-by-step instructions, there are colour illustrations galore. There is a useful glossary and a good index.
If you want to do more than simply make and receive phone calls on your iPhone, this book will be of great help to you.

iPhone 3g Portable Genius
Look no further - this guide to the 3g iPhone is spot-on and ought to have been the one in the box. A little cutsie-pie in its approach but very readable all the same. I haven't found anything that it didn't cover for me. It's just a pity I can't have an electronic version on my iPhone!

Not accurate
I've only had my iPhone for one day so I've only tried to do one thing using this book.
Sadly this one thing, making a ringtone using my iTunes library, cannot be done using this book.
The advice, to move a track into GarageBand, simply doesn't work because of copyright protection.

The book should have been proofread/researched better!