By David Pogue
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Product Description
With the iOS 6 software and the new iPhone 5, Apple has two world-class hits on its hands. This sleek, highly refined pocket computer comes with everything—cellphone, iPod, Internet, camcorder—except a printed manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with this expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the world’s most popular iPhone book.
The important stuff you need to know:
- The iPhone 5. This book unearths all the secrets of the newest iPhone. Taller screen, faster chip, 4G LTE Internet, thinner than ever.
- The iOS 6 software. Older iPhones gain Do Not Disturb, the new Maps app, shared Photo Streams, camera panoramas, smarter Siri, and about 197 more new features. It’s all here.
- The apps. That catalog of 750,000 add-on programs makes the iPhone’s phone features almost secondary. Now you’ll know how to find, manage, and exploit those apps.
The iPhone may be the world’s coolest computer, but it’s still a computer, with all of a computer’s complexities. iPhone: The Missing Manual is a funny, gorgeously illustrated guide to the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that will turn you, too, into an iPhone addict.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #116433 in Books
- Brand: Brand: O'Reilly Media
- Published on: 2012-11-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .95" h x 6.10" w x 8.98" l, 1.88 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 552 pages
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- Used Book in Good Condition
Customer Reviews
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126 of 128 people found the following review helpful.
Your phone can do more than you know
By W. Hohenschuh
This is a great manual. Its absolutely comprehensive. It focuses on many of the newer features of the iPhone 5 and iOS 6, but touches on nearly every conceivable thing that your phone can do and every conceivable way that you would want to interact with it.
I would consider myself an avid iPhone user. I've owned pretty much every other model since the first and would have considered myself extremely iPhone proficient. Apparently I wasn't close. I had no idea that there were multiple ways to change appointment times or that I could customize the notifications center. While I had a general understanding about the icons on the top bar I couldn't have told you the complete hierarchy of cellular networks. When apple launches a new product or OS they add hundreds of features, but the media picks maybe 10 to drool over and you never hear about the rest. To take the time to search out and understand each one could take days, but its all here with full color pictures and easy to follow explanations that both explain functionality and walk you through using it.
I found this to be an interesting cover to cover read, but then I'm probably a bit of a nerd. You certainly don't need to use it like that, but I suspect many people will just because its fun to know what your phone is capable of and to discover functionality you didn't know existed. If you don't read it cover to cover or if you do and then need to reference something later, fear not, the index of this book (which is hefty by the way at over 500 pages) is fantastic. If you've heard about a feature you can look it up by name. If you've got an icon you can't decipher the index will direct you to it. If all you know is that you want more functionality with a specific built in app like iBooks or iTunes you'll find where to go quickly and easily.
Whether you enjoy learning about the features of your new iDevice or you've got a parent or grandparent that struggling to use the iPhone this book would be more than adequate. Great pictures, great descriptions, easy to use, and well worth the money.
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UPDATE: COMPARATIVE RANKINGS
I never intended to read enough iPhone 5 "manuals" to truly compare them. First I just like learning about the phone. Then I got interested in the differences in teaching styles and ended up reading 5 really well put together books. I ended up rating them all relatively highly simply because they were all great books that will serve their target audiences very well. But since they're all great books you deciding on star ranking alone may not get you the right book so I'm adding a comparative ranking to each of my reviews to help you identify which target audience you might be in.
I still stand by my initial reviews, but with more background my perspective has definitely grown.
Overall Comprehensiveness:
1) The Missing Manual (iPhone: The Missing Manual) - Covers from the tech in the phone to multiple ways to do almost everything
2) My iPhone (My iPhone (Covers iPhone 4, 4S and 5 running iOS 6) (6th Edition)) - Maybe a touch less tech coverage than The Missing Manual, but not by much
3) iPhone 5 for Dummies (iPhone 5 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)))- A reasonably comprehensive guide that doesn't bog down in tech detail and covers fewer ways to do things than the missing manual
4) Teach Yourself Visually (Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone 5 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech))) - just a how-to usually one method per function
5*) iPhone 5 for Dummies for Seniors (iPhone 5 For Seniors For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))) - A moderately distilled version of the dummies book with more focus on "senior specific" topics
(*I thought this should be singled out for its special topics of interest which my override total comprehensiveness for some buyers)
Readability and Narrative:
1) The Missing Manual - Reads well and the author has a bit of a sense of humor. The lack of walk throughs actually tends to make reading flow more naturally
2) My iPhone - The narrative in this book made it accessible and helped disperse any nervousness you might have about learning a new tech device
2) iPhone 5 for Dummies - A readable book, but certainly not my favorite read and probably not something I'd read for fun (even if I am a bit of a tech geek)
4) iPhone 5 for Dummies for Seniors - Big text make this book "readable," but I wasn't engaged with the narrative
5) Teach Yourself Visually - This book is walk throughs its not for light reading
Walk throughs and step-by-step instructions:
1) Teach Yourself Visually - Tons of brilliantly detailed instructions with pictures that point out exactly where to press
2) My iPhone - Nice guides offset from the narrative in distinctive blue boxes with helpful pictures.
3) iPhone 5 for Dummies for Seniors - More guided instructions than the regular Dummies iPhone book, but not close to the Teach Yourself Visually book that I would recommend to my parents in terms of quantity or quality
4) iPhone 5 for Dummies
5) The Missing Manual - Step by step, button-by-button guides are not emphasized. The book isn't void of all instructions, but they are imbedded in text and assume that you read the first chapters and can find the appropriate buttons.
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Makes Learning About The iPhone a Pleasure
By Writing The Hemingway Way
Short review: the iPhone 5 is a miraculous device, and this book teaches you how to get a ton more out of it. David Pogue is funny and very, very clear. I've read many how-to books on Apple devices. Nobody comes close to Pogue. I've read this book cover-to-cover. If you want to be able to enjoy your iPhone 100% more -- by being able to actually use the zillion features it offers -- buy the book.
P.S. All the Missing Manual books are great, but David Pogue is the best author of the series.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
The Old Guard
By R. Anthony
Executive review: I have read apps manuals for more than 25 years. In the "old days" manuals came with the program. Today, many manuals suggest a simplicity of design and an ease of reading. Not really so:some chapters are suggested as a "resource"(read obscure). Short and sweet. This manual is unbelievably good. I have never read one better. No chapter is a "resource". All are absolutely accessably. The information on the iphone (I have a new 4S)through OS 6 is not just easy to read, it is fun to read. You will laugh out loud at the SIRI section. You have not used an iphone until you have taken the time to read this manual. Nothing is missed. Try a few pages a day. Reason: you will be compelled to try the "tricks". The gentleman has provided a true resource.
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