Lesson 21. Using Wikipedia on Your iPhone

In this lesson, you learn how to access Wikipedia from Apple’s iPhone or iPod Touch.

Wikipedia on Safari

Apple’s iPhone is one of the best-selling smartphones on the market today. One of its key selling points is the built-in Web browsing, via either WiFi (when available) or 3G cellular service.

Note: iPod Touch

The iPod Touch has the same Safari-based Web browsing capabilities as its iPhone sibling, but without 3G mobile phone capability. (It connects to the Internet via WiFi only.)

Web browsing is done via the built-in Safari Web browser. You can use Safari to access Wikipedia on your iPhone; just enter en.wikipedia.org into Safari’s address box. As you can see in Figure 21.1, Wikipedia articles ...

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