The iPhone and iPod are specific types
of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) that run the iPhone operating
system. A PDA is a handheld, multifunction mobile device equipped
with computing and information storage and retrieval competence.
Traditionally, PDAs were designed as an
electronic personal organizer that stored addresses, appointments and
task lists. Today, PDAs use wireless
networks to access web content remotely; send/ receive email
and some, like the iPhone, are known as Smart phones because they
function as cellular phones.
This exercise is designed to help you
familiarize yourself with some basic features found on your iPhone
or iPod Touch. Complete the scavenger hunt by finding the
features listed in the column on the left, on your particular device.
Write the location of each in the column on the right. You may work
individually or as a group for this activity.
The iPod Touch and iPhone are equipped
with a touch screen, buttons and icons that control their
functionality. The iPod
Touch/iPhone can be locked when not in use. When the device
is locked, nothing happens if you touch the screen.
The iPod Touch/iPhone can also be
locked with a pass code by default, the device will also lock
automatically if you don’t touch the screen for a minute.
If you want to lock your iPod touch so
press the sleep/wake button and for unlock iPod touch presses the
home button or the sleep/wake and drag the slider.
Turn iPod Touch completely off so press
and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider
appears, then drag the slider. To turn iPod Touch on to press and
hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
A touch screen allows users to interact
directly with what is displayed on the screen, rather than indirectly
via a mouse or stylus. The iPhone
Application Development and iPod Touch are equipped with
capacitive touch screens, which means that they only respond to
finger contact and will not work with a gloved hand or stylus.
There are many applications included
with the iPod Touch and iPhone. Only those listed on the subsequent
pages are relevant to the PDA project. Touch any application to open
it.
To the calendar enter appointment
details by tapping each of the following fields. iPhone
Application Developer can manage location, Starting and
ending times (or turn on All-day if it’s an all-day event), repeat
times—none, or every day, week, two weeks, month, or year. We can
use alert time—from five minutes to two days before the event
Once you’ve joined a Wi-Fi network
manually, iPhone/iPod Touch automatically connects to it whenever the
network is in range. If more than one previously used network is in
range, the iPhone/iPod Touch joins the one last used.
Most things are the mail feature allows
to users to their e-mails box. Mail sends and retrieves email in
real time on the iPhone. The iPod Touch sends and receives email
during synchronization. Both of these devices work with the most
popular email systems—including Yahoo! Mail, Google email, AOL,
.Mac Mail—as well as most corporate email systems. Mail allows you
to access PDFs and other attachments and view them on your
iPhone/iPod Touch.
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