Appendixes Appendix A 322 Setup and Signup 323 Setup and Signup I n the first year of its existence, the iPhone was remarkable (among other ways) in that you didn’t activate it (sign up for service) in the cell- phone store, with a salesperson breathing down your neck. You did it at home, on your computer, in iTunes, where you could take all the time you needed to read about the plans and choose the one you want. That all changed with the iPhone 3G. Now, you sign up in the cellphone store, with a salesperson breathing down your neck. This Appendix covers the AT&T plans you might sign up for, plus how to upgrade an original iPhone’s software to the 2.0 version. Activation Activation means signing up for a plan, turning on the service, and either finding out your new phone number or transferring your old number to the iPhone. A non-activated iPhone isn’t altogether useless. It’s still a very nice iPod—in fact, it’s pretty much an iPod Touch. But without a two-year AT&T contract, the iPhone costs $600 or $700 (for the 8- and 16-gig models)—so if an iPod Touch is what you want, then you should just buy an iPod Touch and save a lot of money. Some wily fans have realized that they can buy the iPhone for $200, sign up for service, then cancel and pay the $175 early-termination fee. The result: a no-service, liberated phone for $375 total. (That’s still more expensive than an iPod Touch, though. And you never know when that loophole might get closed.) Incidentally, the iPhone is a locked GSM phone, meaning that it works only with an AT&T account. It won’t work with Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, or any other A Appendix A 324 carrier, and you can’t insert the SIM card (page 8) from a non-AT&T phone and expect it to work. Yes, hackers have succeeded in unlocking the iPhone, so that it can be used on other cell companies’ networks; their primary motivation for doing so is to be able to use it in other countries, where the iPhone hasn’t been available. But now that the iPhone is sold legitimately in 70 countries (and counting), there may be less reason to go that questionable route. All right then: Here you are in the AT&T store, or about to head to one. Here are some of the issues you’ll face and decisions you’ll have to make: Transferring your old number.• You can bring your old cellphone or home phone number to your new iPhone. Your friends and coworkers can keep dialing your old number—but your iPhone will now ring instead of the old phone. It usually takes under an hour for a cellphone-number transfer to take place, but it may take several hours. During that time, you can make calls on the iPhone, but can’t receive them. Transferring a landline number can take several days. Select your monthly AT&T plan.• All iPhone service plans include unlim- ited Internet use and unlimited calling to and from other AT&T phones. All of them also offer Rollover Minutes, a feature no other carrier offers. That is, if you don’t use up all of your monthly minutes this month, the unused ones are automatically added to your allotment for next month, and so on. All but the cheapest plan also offer unlimited calls on nights and week- ends. (On that plan, you get 5,000 night/weekend minutes, which is actu- ally pretty close to “unlimited.”) The primary difference between the plans, therefore, is the number of weekday calling minutes you get. Most people sign up for the $70 monthly plan, which offers 450 weekday calling minutes. But there’s a 900-minute plan for $90, a 1,350-minute plan for $110, and, believe it or not, an unlimited calling plan for $130. None of these includes any text messages. For those, you’ll have to pay $5 more for 200 messages, $15 for 1,500, or $20 for unlimited messages. Of course, you can always pay á la carte, too: 20 cents for each message sent or received. Setup and Signup 325 (The original iPhone, you may remember, offered 450 minutes a month, unlimited Internet, and 200 text messages for $60 a month—much less. No wonder so many people were cranky when the iPhone 3G was an- nounced. AT&T and Apple, however, point out that you’re now getting 3G service, which you weren’t before—and that the new plan is identical to what you’d pay for a 3G Treo or BlackBerry.) The choice you make here isn’t etched in stone. You can change your plan at any time. At www.wireless.att.com, you can log in with your iPhone number and make up a password. Click My Account, and then click Change Rate Plan to view your options. All iPhone plans require a 2-year commitment and a $36 “activation fee” (ha!). As you budget for your plan, keep in mind that, as with any cellphone, you’ll also be paying taxes as high as 22 percent, depending on your state. Ouch. Once you get the phone home, hook it up to iTunes. (You’ll be told, as though you didn’t know by now, that you need iTunes 7.7 or later.) Now you can spec- ify what you want copied onto the phone. Turn to Chapter 13 for details. AT&T Fringe Cases For most people, the plans described above are all they’ll ever need. There are, however, plenty of oddball cases—business plans, family plans, pay-as-you- go plans—that might be worth considering. For example: Prepaid plans.• AT&T’s GoPhone plans are intended for people with poor credit (or a fear of commitment). You pay for each month’s service in advance, and it’s very expensive: $60 a month buys you only 300 min- utes, for example. But here’s the thing: There’s no two-year commitment, no deposit, no contract. You can stop paying at any time without having to pay the usual $175 early-termination fee. Unfortunately, the GoPhone plans aren’t available for the iPhone 3G. Business plans. • If you’re using a corporate iPhone, you pay $45 a month for unlimited Internet use (on top of a voice plan). That’s 50 percent more than the regular iPhone plan—because, as AT&T sees it, “Business Appendix A 326 customers tend to be heavier users of data than consumers.” (Plausible? You decide.) Upgrading from an original iPhone.• If you have an original iPhone, you can get the iPhone 3G for the new-customer price ($200 or $300)—and you don’t even have to pay the $175 early-termination fee. Just bring your old iPhone to the store and get the new one activated. You can give the old phone to another family member, sell it, put it up on eBay, whatever you like. Family plans.• The iPhone can be part of an AT&T family plan. It works just like any other phone: For $10 more per month, it shares a pool of minutes with other phones belonging to the same family. (It still has to have its own $30-a-month Internet service, though.) Upgrading an Original iPhone There’s not much involved in bringing the iPhone 2.0 software to your original iPhone. One day—probably a long time ago, at this point—iTunes alerts you that a free upgrade is available. You click Download and Install. When it’s all over, your new iPhone has access to the App Store, MobileMe, Exchange, and over 100 new features, and all your old data is put back onto it. Here’s the whole experience—told in pictures. First, the announcement: Setup and Signup 327 Don’t worry about that erasing business. iTunes will restore everything to your iPhone after the installation. Going on: Appendix A 328 Next, iTunes offers to put all your music, videos, and other stuff back onto your phone (from the backup it made a moment ago). Click Continue. And then, suddenly, it’s all over. The iPhone is reborn. Accessories 329 Accessories L ike the iPods that came before it, the iPhone is inspiring a torrent of accessories that seems to intensify with every passing month. Stylish cases, speakers, docks, cables—the list goes on. This appendix gives you a representative sampling. It also points you in the right direction so you can find iPhone accessories that look good, sound good, and most importantly—fit. Proper Shopping for the iPhone This is the most important thing to remember when you’re looking for iPhone hardware: Not all iPod and iPhone accessories are created equal. (Or, as Yoda might say: Created equal, not all iPod and iPhone accessories are.) For example: The iPhone 3G’s shape is different from the original iPhone’ s. Form-fitting • cases, sockets, and accessories designed for the original iPhone don’t fit the new one. The first-generation iPhone’s headphone jack is recessed, so regular • headphone stereo miniplugs don’t fully connect. The iPhone is also a phone, with components inside that can cause static, • buzz, and interference when used with external speakers (which have their own electronic innards). So accessories intended for the iPod may not work. To help you identify accessory get products that are compatible with the iPhone, Apple has its own “Works with iPhone” logo program. As the company puts it, products bearing the logo are “electronic accessories designed to connect specifically to iPhone and certified by the developer to meet Apple performance standards.” B Appendix B 330 Getting stuff with the “Works with iPhone” logo should save you the grief that comes with “Buying the Wrong Thing.” Some good places to look include: Apple’s iPhone Accessories page.• Here are all of Apple’s own, offi- cial white plastic cables, the optional iPhone 3G dock, power adapters, Bluetooth headsets and more. (www.apple.com/iphone/accessories) Digital Lifestyle Outfitters. • DLO has been turning out handsome iPod cases practically since the little white MP3 player took the first spin of its scroll wheel. Somehow, they had iPhone cases and other accessories in stock before the first iPhone hit the street. (www.dlo.com) XtremeMac. • Another iPod stuffmaker, XtremeMac makes fashionable car chargers and other powerful products that work with the iPhone. (www. xtrememac.com) Griffin Technology. • Cables, cases, and many audio accessories. (www. griffintechnology.com) Belkin. • From acrylic cases to sporty armbands, Belkin markets several iPhone items, including an adapter for the headphone port on the origi- nal iPhone. (www.belkin.com) EverythingiCafe. • If it works with an iPhone, you can probably find it here by clicking the Store tab: cleaning cloths, screen protectors, Bluetooth headsets, cases, and on and on. It’s not just a shopping center; user forums, reviews, and news make the site live up to its all-encompassing name. (http://store.everythingicafe.com) If you’re looking for specific categories of products, say a not-too-geeky belt case or a Bluetooth headset for handsfree-dialing, the next few pages give you an idea of what’s out there. Protecting Your iPhone With its glass-and-chrome good looks, keeping the iPhone from getting scuffed, scratched, or dented is a priority for many people who’ve just dropped $200 or more on the thing. Two types of accessories in particular can bring an extra layer of protection (and peace of mind): cases and screen protectors. [...]... list, 78 composers list, 79 Cover Flow, 80 -81 customizing the list, 79 -80 equalization (EQ), 89 -91, 3 18- 319 genres list, 79 Home button shortcut, 12, 87 , 3103 11 iPod functions, 75-92 looping, 84 lyrics, 90 Now Playing screen, 81 -82 on -the- go playlist, 90 opening, 75 playback controls, 82 playing with screen off, 85 playlists, 76 podcast list, 79 rating songs, 82 settings, 3 18- 320 Shuffle mode, 84 songs... screen captures, 107 -1 08 screen icons see status bar icons screenshots, 107 -1 08 searching contacts list, 36 Web, 136-137 security clearing cache, 142, 3 18 clearing History list, 3 18 cookies, 142, 3 18 corporate concerns, 284 JavaScript on/off, 3 18 parental controls, 143, 3 08- 310 passcode lock, 307-3 08 PIN code (SIM card), 317 plug-ins on/off, 3 18 popup blocker, 141 restrictions, 143, 3 08- 310 Web browser,... iPhone, 106 107 setting up (computers), 274-276 setting up (iPhone), 276-277 settings, 274-2 78 uploading photos from iPhone, 279 280 viewing photo galleries, 2 78- 280 music playback answering calls, 86 earbuds clicker, 38, 85 looping, 84 Now Playing Screen, 82 pausing and skipping, 83 remote, 229 Shuffle mode, 84 silencer switch, 13-14 status icon, 85 volume keys, 13-14, 85 wireless Bluetooth headphones, 85 ... camera, 104 -105 adding photos to contacts, 47 geotagging, 1 08- 112 lens, 15 playing back photos, 105 -106 quality of, 93 resolution of, 104 self-portraits, 104 using, 104 Camera Roll, 105 -106 Caps Lock key keyboard, 20 on/off, 311 carrier selection, 301 cases and screen covers, 330-331 Cc (carbon copy), 166, 171 hide/show “badge” in list, 313 CDMA networks, 8 cell signal icon, 10 charging the iPhone, 28 backup... (EQ), 30, 89 -90 settings, 3 18- 319 Exchange ActiveSync, 283 -295 and MobileMe, 289 -293 calendars, 289 contacts, 288 defined, 283 - 284 email, 287 how many days’ worth of mail to show, 313 iPhone Configuration Utility, 284 Index 351 limiting past events on calendar, 315 Outlook meeting invitations, 290293, 315 Outlook Web Access (OWA), 284 “push” data on/off, 300-301 setup, 285 - 288 troubleshooting, 293 F... sending by text message, 101 -102 settings, 320 slideshow controls, 98- 99 syncing to iPhone, 259-262 uploading to the Web, 106 -107 wallpaper, 99 -101 , 303-304 Picasa, 261 geotagging, 110 keeps opening by itself, 261 pinching and spreading, 18- 19 photos, 96 Play indicator, 11 playlists, 2 38- 240 creating, 2 38 deleting, 239 editing, 239 On -the- Go playlist, 90 smart playlists, 2 58 viewing on iPhone, 76 podcasts,... 345 iPod Problems The iPhone is a great iPod, but even here, things can go wrong • Can’t hear anything Are the earbuds plugged in? They automatically cut the sound coming from the iPhone’s built-in speaker Is the volume up? Press the Up volume key on the side of the phone Also make sure that the music is, in fact, supposed to be playing (and isn’t on Pause) • Can’t sync music or video files to the. .. trouble charging the iPhone, make sure it’s indeed connected to a USB charging cable—not one of the old FireWire cables (or charging docks with FireWire) If the battery icon at the top of the screen bears a little lightning-bolt icon, you’re charging; the iPhone will be 80 percent charged in about an hour But if the red part of the battery icon on the iPhone screen flashes three times and then the screen... swiping The iPhone shuts off completely Turn it back on by pressing the Sleep/Wake switch for a second or two • Force-restart the phone If you haven’t been able to force-quit the program, and you can’t shut off the phone either, you might have to force a restart To do that, hold both the Home button and the Sleep/Wake switch for 10 seconds Keep holding, even if the screen goes black or you see the “power... multitasking, 38 muting calls, 39 speakerphone, 40 swapping calls, 42 text messages, 62- 68 transferring your old phone number, 324 usage statistics, 304-305 Visual Voicemail, 57-62 your phone number, 35 photos, 93 -103 deleting, 97 emailing, 101 -102 Flickr.com, 111-112, 143, 146 for contacts, 103 from camera, 105 -106 geotagging, 1 08- 112 opening, 94-95 panning, 97 rotating and zooming, 95-97 sending by email, 101 . onto the phone the first time you sync after the restore. To restore the phone, connect it to your computer. In iTunes, click the iPhone icon and then, on the Summary tab, click Restore. The. much an iPod Touch. But without a two-year AT&T contract, the iPhone costs $600 or $700 (for the 8- and 16-gig models)—so if an iPod Touch is what you want, then you should just buy an iPod. think that’s the trouble, try the resetting tactics on the previous pages. Doesn’t Show Up in iTunes If the iPhone’s icon doesn’t appear in the Source list at the left side of the iTunes window,