The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone (Pocket Idiot's Guides)
by Damon Brown
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Book Summary Information
Author: Damon BrownEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-07
ISBN: 1592577164
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Alpha
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9781592577163
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Book Reviews of The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone (Pocket Idiot's Guides)
Book Review: Use the manual and the internet instead
Summary: 2 Stars
A book such as Damon Brown's The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone can really only have two possible purposes: to give a potential user information to help them decide whether and what to buy, and/or to provide information to a user that goes beyond the manual in helping them to make the most of a gadget. Unfortunately, this book succeeds in neither of these goals.
The closest Mr. Brown comes to discussing whether one should buy the iPhone is a small suggestion that it might not hurt to wait to buy it until some of the inevitable first-round kinks are worked out. Other than that, he mostly spends his words raving about how utterly cool the iPhone is and how no one could possibly not want it. He ignores such basic and essential information as the fact that you must send your iPhone in for servicing in order to replace the battery, something that users might want to know before deciding whether to plunk down their money.
As for providing additional information to users, well, let's just say I did a quick comparison of this book to the actual iPhone manual from Apple. The manual does a far better job of exploring the programs available on the iPhone and how to use them in depth. For example, Brown's information on using the iPhone to check your email is limited to a brief paragraph or two saying you can use it with such services as Yahoo! and Gmail, while the manual explains in-depth how to access your mail. In fact, the only thing I saw better information on in the book was the use of iTunes in creating playlists and buying music. This hardly seems like the best use of space given that iTunes is one part of iPhone's package that most users are likely to already be familiar with.
In short, you can do better with the manual and a quick Google search than you can with this book.
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