Part II
The PDA iPhone
Now that you’ve mastered all the calling and listening stuff, you’re ready to become a whiz at keeping in touch and staying organized. We start with the sending and retrieving of SMS, MMS, and iMessage messages. As journalists, we especially appreciate what comes next: finding out how to become a champion note taker.
Next, you explore all those C-word programs — namely, Calendar, Calculator, and Clock — plus Voice Memos and the new Passbook app. These handy applications enable you to stay on top of your appointments, solve arithmetic problems on-the-fly (with one or two nifty calculators), show up for appointments on time — thanks to the Calendar app’s alerts and Clock app’s alarm clock — record memos (or lectures, or anything you can hear, really), and use tickets, boarding passes, and other credentials without having to print them first.
We close this part with a delightful little ditty about voice control and Siri, the intelligent assistant inside the iPhone 4S and 5. Marvel at how she understands what you say and then does it — most of the time and discover how easy it is to make phone calls with Voice Control.
