 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | If you’re looking for a book that focuses on just the most important, most useful, and most fun stuff about your iPhone 3G or 3GS—you’ve found it.
There are basically two types of iPhone books out there: (1) The “tell-me-all-about-it” kind, which includes in-depth discussions on everything from wireless network protocols to advanced compression codes. (2) Then there’s this book, which instead is a “show-me-how-to-do-it” book that skips all the confusing techno-jargon and just tells you, in plain, simple English, exactly how to use the iPhone features you want to use most.
The iPhone Book is from Scott Kelby, the award-winning author of the smash bestseller, The iPod Book, who takes that same highly acclaimed, casual, straight-to-thepoint concept and layout and brings it to learning Apple’s amazing iPhone. Scott teams up once again with gadget guru and leading iPhone authority Terry White to put together a book that is an awful lot like the iPhone itself—simple to use and fun to learn. The book’s layout is brilliant, with each page covering just one single topic, so finding the information you need is quick and easy, with a large full-color photo on each page so you can see exactly how it works.
The first edition of this book was named Best Computer Book of 2007 and, since then, Scott and Terry added even more tips and more tricks, and made it even easier by focusing on just the most useful and most requested iPhone 3G and 3GS features, so you can start really using your iPhone today!
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Average Customer Rating:   Scott Kelby's iPhone book I really enjoy Scott Kelby's material and this book does not disappoint. Gives a lot of nice hidden tips and techniques - a great resource for iPhone owners! Having an iPhone without this book is like having a Ferrari without the key I purchased my iPhone just under a month ago, and was disappointed that it basically came with nothing as far as a user guide, manual, etc. (I guess I should have expected it though, from Apple).
I am a little more 'techie' than some people, and I think I figured out a good number of things on my own, or from talking to friends who had an iPhone too, but I decided to go to the store to find a good book on how to use my newest toy. I knew there had to be a lot more to it, that I hadn't uncovered and I didn't want to let features go unused. I know Apple designs their products to be able to be used by just about anyone right out of the box, but I knew there are things not everyone just discovers. Having an iPhone without this book is like having a Ferrari without the key.
The selection of iPhone user guide books that's available was a little overwhelming, but when all was said & done, I bought this book. I spent a little more than an hour looking through the different books on using an iPhone, and this one was hands down the best one out there.
The layout is fantastic (I love the fact that you don't have to read from the beginning to the end, you can go to certain sections), very well written (easy to understand), love all the color pages and sample photos, and like others have said in their reviews, the iTips at the bottom of some of the pages are great! I feel like I have learned a ton from this book, even though there was a lot from it I had already self-taught. Even though there were things I already knew I wasn't disappointed they were in the book either. I found it reassuring that I found a good number of the basics.
This book is great for everyone from new users who aren't that well advanced, all the way to the most savy of iPhone users who've had it since day one. My neighbor has had one for a long time, and in the past couple weeks, I've shown them a few things they had no clue how to do, or that the feature was even available.
Bottomline: This book should be mandatory reading material for all iPhone users.
Don't buy This book is only good if you cant find the power button or read the screen. All the tips are basic functionality nothing that you cant find on your own by looking at the phone. New iPhone User I just recently purchased the iPhone 3GS. I had been considering the purchase for awhile. I wasn't sure how I would like the touch screen, or if it would be a cool toy for awhile and then I would eventually get bored with it. So I decided to take the plunge and buy it. And I absolutely love it thus far. When I was in the store I did not really get a tutorial on how it worked, so I basically went in cold turkey playing with it and learning things.
What I noticed is there is not really a manual included you just learn on your own, or ask someone who has knowledge of it. A co-worker then let me borrow this book, she thought I would find it helpful. And oh was it. It gives you the basic things you need to know to work the iPhone, and it is written in plain english so any user can understand.
My favorite part about the book are all the neat tips/tricks that are usually in a gray box at the bottom of the pages. The index helps you navigate anything you wish to know that is included. And by far my favorite tips were on how to save some of your battery life, because if you are a user you know how fast it can drain when you are playing with apps, calling, texting, emailing, and using the iPod feature.
I highly reccomend this book for all new and current iPhone users. Color Pictures on Kindle??? I decided to download the sample to see how the pages looked. I really don't know how good this book is because the sample stops cold after page after page after page of front material with nary an actual page from the book.
We have acknowledgements and dedications galore, and then voluminous tables of contents, but nary an actual page of the book in the 355 Locations provided. This is the first time a sample has been useless, and I very much like the idea of getting a look before purchasing. My reason for downloading was to see how the much touted pictures looked in my first generation Kindle. Not one picture.
So I don't think this is in the spirit of letting buyers see what they are going to get. |  |
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