Analyzing the functions of your iPhone
Note: This mini-article is also part of "Comprehensive analysis of Apple's iPhone" a way to lighten the reading, I set out in sections that Article.
Calls with iPhone
It is easy to get lost in all that surrounds the touch screen, web browsing and forget that ultimately, and as its name implies, the iPhone is a phone, and the truth is that it works very well as such: when receiving an incoming call, the iPhone breaks in a rather elegant
what you are doing, showing the ID of the caller. You can configure any of the 25 series ringtones available as ringtones and assign custom ringtones to individual contacts. Unfortunately, you can use your own music or sounds as ringtones.
Once the call is in progress, the big screen of the iPhone gives Apple plenty of room to show what options are available on the phone, including the ability to put calls on hold and create conference.
The iPhone uses iTunes to sync the contents of the agenda for the Mac (or a set of previously created groups in Address Book) with its internal list of contacts. Although it was initially somewhat reluctant to the idea of sync all my contacts instead of only the group of people that spoke more often, finally sync all contacts is probably the best option, since such contacts also contain the address of email.
Fortunately, the iPhone remembers the contact group that has been used more recently. So even though my iPhone contains 207 records of my Mac, when I tap on the entry of contacts in the iPhone only see the contents of the group 'Phone' that I created earlier in the Book on your Mac (if the person I need to call is not there, I can tap the arrow to go back and go through the full list of contacts or a different contact group.)
In fact, the "memory" with the contact group used is just one example of the different effects that can be found throughout the iPhone interface: when you return to a task you had previously used, all will be as left off. For example, if you were looking for a Mail message and then had pressed the Home button to check the prices of some value, when hast done tap on Mail again come back to the same message.
The iPhone's Phone application is composed of five tabbed interface that lets you access a keypad for stamping marking a phone number to the old way, see your contacts and get a list of recent calls.
There is also a Favorites list, so you can create a list of your most frequently dialed numbers. However, creating and accessing people "favorite" should be easier than it is today. To add a contact as favorites, you must tap the name in the Contacts list, scroll to the bottom of the contact record and tap Add to Favorites. Then, if you have more than one phone number, select the one you want to add to your favorites. It should be as simple as tap and drag the name on the Favorites icon.
The iPhone also lacks the quick tagging feature that can be found in other phones, which just press a button to call contacts with those who speak more often. Obviously, the iPhone can not assign contacts to buttons that otherwise lacks, but the main contacts are perhaps too many taps away than they should be.
When you're in the middle of a call, you can tap the screen to access six commands: Mute, Keypad, Speaker, Hold, Contacts and Add call. The last command is particularly significant as it represents an example of the type of task that can be confusing on other smartphones as a process is extremely simple in the Apple device. Whether it has received as a call has been made, is a way to put the other person on standby while you call another contact and then put three or more participants in lecture mode.
One of the unique characteristics related to the type of phone the iPhone is Visual Voicemail, which messages are displayed showing the caller's name and time of the call, the messages that have not yet heard will be marked with a blue dot. Tapping on any message starts playing the same, regardless of their position in the message queue.
While listening to a message, a progress bar to display the length of it and the current playhead position, and can move forward and backward to any point by dragging a finger. No more having to listen to the entire message just to hear the phone number you spent missed the first time you heard the message. There is also a button that allows Call Back call back to that person (assuming they have not blocked its identifier) and the Delete button to erase the message. This is a new focus on the ancient concept of voice mail, and indeed a very positive change on the old voicemail system based on menus that are so familiar to users of mobile phones.
One of the highlights of interfaces that are more useful on the iPhone is the method used to scroll through a huge list of information: a strip with each of the letters of the alphabet runs vertically the screen on the right side of the contact list ( and the majority of the lists in the iPod functions of the phone). Touches the strip with your finger at the usual address on the first letter of a contact name, song or artist you're looking for, and the list will jump to that position.
If you want to use Bluetooth wireless headphones with the iPhone, you should be able to do so without further ado. It's fairly easy to match the iPhone with a Plantronics headset, and my colleagues have also managed to do with Apple and Jabra headsets. However, the iPhone does not currently support stereo headphones, nor can bind to the Mac for other tasks such as sending files, or use the iPhone as models or to pass the call information to your Mac
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