Who Else Wants Great iPhone Trick Tips?

I can proudly state that I’m the luckiest ever owner of an iPhone. I’ve had it for quite a time already but I cannot still play to my heart’s content with this amazing gadget. Nevertheless with experience come cool tips and tricks that you learn. I’ve learned mine and now I want to share them with you.

So, Here is the list of the useful functions of iPhone:

Tap once at the top of the display in the Internet mode and you will be immediately redirected to the top of the page you are browsing (instead of having to scroll your way to the top). This helps my save much time and finger effort.
Set the font to the smaller size and get access to more data in the Internet window. This method has one great advantage: in case you want to click a link it will come up huge thus making it extremely easier to click.
If you want to add a new bookmark you don’t have to enter the full address of the web-page. All you need to do is post the equivalent RSS address in the Apple’s RSS reader. Using RSS feeds you can quickly see if the site has been updated since your last visit (it is much faster than downloading the whole page and helps save traffic).
If you write a lot using the iPhone (as I do) you can enjoy one peculiar trick I’ve found. If you write a word and it is underlined as misspelled but in fact is not, you cancel the correction 3 times and the word will be automatically added to the dictionary.
I found a great use of the magnifying glass. When writing something you tap once and hold and the glass will pop up. With the glass on you can place the cursor wherever you want and continue editing the text.
The icons can be dragged around (it cannot be made only on the home screen). In order to use the function go to iPod => More => Edit. Do whatever you like to the icon arrangement.
There is an ultimate way to reset the device. In order to do that, hold the right button and the home front button for 6 seconds. To bring it back to life press the top button
There is a feature that helps me avoid tons of email spam. I added a link to Yahoo mail in my Safari and now I can use “delete all” function to remove all the spam messages.

These are the tricks that I found out using iPhone. Did you learn any other tricks? Would you share them with me and with the audience?

3G iPhone Due Out Soon - O2 and T-Mobile Cut Prices

Explaining Why All other Smartphones Lag Behind iPhone

Before the release of the iPhone (July 4, 2007) there were few option for the users to choose from. I mean the devices that combined a comfortable keyboards for quick typing, camera and an inbuilt music player, the ability to sync with email.

The options were:

1. Palm Treo and BB for Sprint

2. Palm Treo, BB, LG enV and Moto Q for Verizon

3. Palm Treo, BB, HTC for AT&T

4. Ocean for Helio

BB was the owner of the corporate market and RIM was just on its way up into the consumer space. Palm OS was the best user-oriented mobile OS on the market. Everything seemed to go all right. But in a while Palm started experiencing a crisis which resulted in the retreat of the company.

The rest of the smartphones were quite narrow products which could not supply the users with the required functionality.

But here comes the iPhone. You know, it looked like the world was just waiting for a gadget like this to come and take its place. Before the release of the iPhone if you wanted to get a new smartphone you needed to scroll through dozens of similar devices. Now you could have just one. It was different from all of them in the design, in the technology, in the approach and in the know-how. It is what any consumer wants, isn’t it?

In 2007 Apple came with a completely new device. It was the device that could move the borders of the mobile communication. I’m not actually saying that iPhone is a perfect communicator. Of course, it has its own disadvantages (as the absence of flash and java, copy/paste function etc.), but in general it made a real revolution on the mobile market. And if you want my personal opinion on the issue, the major revolution is still to come with the release of the 3G iPhone. Apple simply cannot let down the expectations of the audience. Too much is at stake.

But I still wonder why Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, and LG, being in the mobile market much longer than Apple, compete with the latter at the equal level? Could you help me answer this question?

Apple iPhone Accessories: Case Mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro

Apple iPhone Accessories: Case Mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro

Are you obsessed with the idea of keeping the curious eyes off the screen of your iPhone? You don’t want anyone to read the SMS, mails and bank account info, do you? Well, now there is a solution for you - Case-mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro for iPhone. It offers a viewing angle of 45 degrees and costs only $19.95.

So what’s the Case-mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro? It is:

2″ x 3″ Privacy Screen
Graph Sheet (for sizing)
Screen Cleaning Cloth
Applicator card

The manual says that in order to fit the size of the screen one has to cut the protective canvas. But as the case is designed for the iPhone you won’t have to cut anything. Good luck to the happy owners of Blackberries and Treos!

The application of the screen is as simple as possible. The screen uses static cling. One has to stick the screen to the screen of the iPhone and it will remain there. In fact, there are no noticeable reasons for the protective screen to fall of the iPhone as it seems to hold there quite securely.

But the greatest thing about the protective screen is that it really works. When you look at the iPhone from a different (apart from 45 degrees) angle it is impossible to decipher the symbols depicted on the screen of the iPhone.

So, in fact the privacy screen fulfills its major purpose - deterring those nosy folks who peer over your shoulder.

The conclusion

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